Comparative Effectiveness (the rules and background on what it even is)
Data and Results Will Be Driving Decisions
What's Here?: Some will call this rationing, others will call it the "death panels." The reality is that a certain amount of "rationing" already exists. The bottom-line is we will be measuring outcomes and results more than ever, and comparative effectiveness will be a key method we do it. Decisions on what to pay and what not to pay are made all the time today- they are just made at the health plan level (and are somewhat inconsistent at best). We'll post information that helps explain what it is, what it isn't, and how it may be used in the new health care delivery structures.
NEW Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States; Update and Implications; Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; February, 2012 (This document provides an update on the current efforts of comparative effectiveness research and the "tools not rules" to use to help define what works and what doesn't work. Many still don't even understand what comparative effectiveness is or means- this provides an update) Posted 3-12-12
Comparative Effectiveness Research; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; October, 2010 (An updated policy brief describing where we are and where we need to go) Posted 10-14-10
Final CMS Meaningful Use Criteria; July, 2010; DHHS,CMS; (All 800+ Pages of the final rules establishing the requirements for access to government funds for improving electronic medical record and other technology innovations in health care); Posted 7-23-10
Politics and Policy of Comparative Effectiveness; Looking Back, Looking Ahead; Center for Health Care Effectiveness; June, 2010; A review of what comparative effectiveness is all about, and some of the challenges it faces ahead; posted 7-9-10
Comparative Effectiveness- Perspectives; Deloitte Center for Health Care Solutions
Comparative Effectiveness Report to the President and Congress; June 30, 2009; (Everything You Would Want To Know About Comparative Effectiveness- What It Is, Where It's Going) Federal Coordinating Committee on Competitive Effectiveness
