Comparative Effectiveness Research Smack Down: June 22nd Kicks Off A Policy...
Health reform fever is spreading throughout Capitol Hill, and up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. Among the topics consuming the health intelligentsia is comparative effectiveness research (CER). (For...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research: What a Difference an X Should Make
With all the chatter and perhaps now “ twitter” about health care reform, one area has gotten a lot of attention and it is an issue that is near and dear to the Society for Women’s Health Research—that...
View ArticleComparative Effectiveness Research: Thinking outside the box
“$2.5 Billion spent: no alternative medicine cures” screamed the headline two weeks ago. “You expect scientific thinking” one expert was quoted as saying, claiming that it’s become “politically correct...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research Can Help Combat Health Disparities
My organization, the National Hispanic Medical Association, is committed to improving the health of Hispanics and other underserved. We support policies that will reform public health and medical...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research from a Caregiver’s Perspective
Caregivers need all the help we can get in navigating the confusing and often conflicting health, medical, and financial decisions required to support a family member with severe or chronic health...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research: Through the Lens of Medical Innovation
The Top headline of FDA News Device Daily today read, “Comparative Effectiveness Research has Benefits, Risks Experts Say”. Why would Device Daily consider comparative effectiveness to be risky? Many...
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Comparative Effectiveness: Dance time for rare and genetic diseases
I’ve been tasked with presenting the genetic and rare disease perspective on comparative effectiveness. I’ll dispense with ‘rare’ right away. If by rare, we mean single gene disorders, then perhaps it...
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Comparative Effectiveness through the Policy Lens
I don’t think we in health policy really understand how complex our systems are and what manner of challenges – some of which we created – present themselves in clinical care. It was Dr. Christine...
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Comparative Effectiveness and the Patient's Role
Today’s guest post by Julie Murchinson, Executive Director, Health 2.0 Accelerator, is the final installment in the Disruptive Women Comparative Effectiveness Research smackdown. Stay Tuned: We will be...
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Comparative Effectiveness Research from the Health Care Provider Perspective...
The following guest post on Comparative Effectiveness Research comes from Maria L Kirzecky, R.Ph., MBA, who founded The Kirzecky Group, LLC – a strategic healthcare consultancy specializing in leading...
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Disruptive Women’s Comparative Effectiveness Research eBook Is Available
At the end of June 2009, Disruptive Women in Health Care ran a series of posts that explored the issue of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) from a variety of viewpoints and perspectives:...
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Comparative effectiveness research: do we need to reevaluate research ills?
Editor’s note: The Disruptive Women in Health Care blog recently compiled an ebook exploring the issue of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) from a variety of viewpoints and perspective. We...
View ArticleDr. Jonathan Gruber, Heroically Simplifying Health Care
Gruber, director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, explains the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in comic book format Millions of Americans disapprove of the Affordable...
View ArticleComparative Effectiveness Research: Through the Lens of Medical Innovation
Disruptive Women is embarking on an exciting week…Tuesday we head to NYC where we will be emceeing XX in Health as their retreat takes over the boy’s club (The Harvard Club). Then on Thursday we will...
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