http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com Research | Review | Analysis Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Wall Street journal reports that "Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus formally unveiled a 10-year, $856 billion bill that would extend health insurance to tens of millions of Americans but that found lukewarm support among other key senators, indicating changes to the measure are in store." Read more: Baucus Unveils ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/health-care-reform/baucus-health-plan Mr. Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal's board of contributors. Mr. Feldstein asserts that "rationing" is central to the Obama Administrations healthcare reform package. Read the full article here: ObamaCare Is ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/health-care-reform/obamacare-is-all-about-rationing The White House officially launched the Health Insurance Reform Reality Check web site to battle the supposed Health Care 'Rumors'. The Reality Check web site is designed the same way that Fight the Smears website was during President Obama's candidacy for election. The objective of Health Insurance Reform Reality Check ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/white-house/health-insurance-reform-reality-check The Disruptive Women’s Blog has put out an eBook on Comparative Effectiveness Research. You can download it for free at their website. Here is an excerpt from the announcement... At the end of June 2009, Disruptive Women in Health Care ran a series of posts that explored the issue of Comparative Effectiveness ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/reports/disruptive-women%e2%80%99s-comparative-effectiveness-research-ebook-is-available If you are not signed up for the updates the AHRQ sends out - now is the time. This just came across the wire... We are pleased to inform you of the August 7, Notice of Intent to Publish from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/ahrq/grants-and-contracts-for-comparative-effectiveness-research Prioritizing Comparative-Effectiveness Research — IOM Recommendations J.K. Iglehart http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0904133?query=TOC Comparative-Effectiveness Research — Implications of the Federal Coordinating Council's Report P.H. Conway and C. Clancy http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0905631?query=TOC http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/new-england-journal-of-medicine/iom-recommendations The National Comparative Effectiveness Summit will be held September 16 - 17, 2009 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, in Washington, DC. The purpose of the National Comparative Effectiveness Summit is to provide an overview of the current status of comparative effectiveness research in the United States, to draw lessons for ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/events/comparative-effectiveness-summit The NIH's initiative designed to fund approximately 200 grants has flooded the system.  Earlier this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the NIH has received approximately 20,000 Challenge Grant applications through the Recovery Act. The unprecedented number of applications is placing a huge burden on the ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/nih/nih-grant-application-overload Ted Kennedy is making moves, and this time he appears to be serious. A great Op-Ed piece by Kennedy ran in the Boston Globe on May 28th - Titled: Health bill would fix what's broken OVER THE LAST YEAR, I've seen our healthcare system up close. I've benefited from the best ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/health-care-reform/kennedys-op-ed-in-boston-globe According to the Gooznews... The committee advising the Health and Human Services department on how it should spend its portion of the $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research included in the stimulus package has listed cost of care as a major factor to consider when determining what research ought to get ... http://comparativeeffectivenessreview.com/hhs/will-hhs-consider-cost-in-setting-cer-priorities