A conference on the status of comparative effectiveness research and its use in policy and practice
Oct. 19-20, 2010 / At National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
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No fee to attend live or via Web streaming
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Conference website, now with program agenda
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Seats are almost filled, so register now
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act emphasizes the importance of comparative effectiveness research in order to evaluate clinical outcomes across study populations. It also acknowledges the key role of personalized medicine in ensuring the capacity to identify both individual and subgroup differences within populations. The addition of personalized medicine will help clinicians and patients better predict which intervention will deliver the optimal treatment to the appropriate patient at the right time.
This meeting explores scientific inquiry to better align evidence, infrastructure, and database needs, to highlight research challenges and to brainstorm about regulatory, ethical, and societal factors affecting both fields. The goal is to generate innovation in the course of health care reform which will result in enhanced health outcomes.
The ECRI Institute, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Health Affairs, the Milbank Memorial Fund and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania are involved in this conference.
Drs. Francis Collins, Director of NIH, and Carolyn Clancy, Director of AHRQ, are among 38 speakers.
A Free Conference with Interactive Audience Participation
Session moderators, who themselves are experts, will engage the panelists in answering questions posed by the audience and from one speaker to another. In-person attendance is encouraged so that you can interact with speakers, pose your questions, network with participants, and apply for continuing education credits.
Join the Conversation
Follow #CEConf on Twitter. ECRI Institute's patient safely blog will provide a forum for participants to pose questions to the speakers in the week following the conference.
Questions?
Contact communications@ecri.org or call (610) 825-6000, ext. 5310.