In This Week’s Issue:
1. CMS Releases RFI on New Direction for CMMI - Comments Due November 20! Click here to view the RFI.
2. Washington Post: Here’s one place where the doctor is always in and happy to talk, click here to read the article.
3. NEJM: Making Patients and Doctors Happier - The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes, click here to read the article.
4. RTI International: How can patient-centered research plus consumer technologies improve health decisions? Click here to read the article.
5. Modern Medicine: The next wave of patient-centered health IT, click here to read the article.
6. CMS Measure Development Education and Outreach Series, see details below.
7. Epilepsy Foundation: 2017-2018 AAHD Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability, click here to apply.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars, see details below
9. Medical Journal Articles, see details below.
10. AHRQ Effective Program Updates, see details below.
1. CMS Releases RFI on New Direction for CMMI - Comments Due November 20! Click here to view the RFI.
2. Washington Post: Here’s one place where the doctor is always in and happy to talk, click here to read the article.
3. NEJM: Making Patients and Doctors Happier - The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes, click here to read the article.
4. RTI International: How can patient-centered research plus consumer technologies improve health decisions? Click here to read the article.
5. Modern Medicine: The next wave of patient-centered health IT, click here to read the article.
6. CMS Measure Development Education and Outreach Series, see details below.
7. Epilepsy Foundation: 2017-2018 AAHD Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability, click here to apply.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars, see details below
9. Medical Journal Articles, see details below.
10. AHRQ Effective Program Updates, see details below.
1. CMS Releases RFI on New Direction for CMMI - Comments Due November 20!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking insights on a new direction to promote patient-centered care and test market-driven reforms that empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. In response, the Chairman Tony Coelho of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) applauded CMS and Administrator Verma for making strong statements in support of patients and patient-centered care, and releasing an RFI to set a new direction for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that supports patients, caregivers and people with disabilities. PIPC has long advocated for CMMI to engage patients and people with disabilities early in the development of patient-centered demonstrations that have the potential to improve patient outcomes while lowering costs. As part of the effort to move CMMI in a new direction, Chairman Coelho urges CMMI to establish meaningful mechanisms for patients and people with disabilities to engage in the development of these models. He also urges CMS to develop meaningful patient-centeredness criteria that would enable CMMI and the public to determine whether APMs are truly putting patients first. PIPC is reviewing the RFI in more detail and looks forward to working with CMMI on a new direction that puts patients at the center. Additional information on PIPC’s recommendations for patient engagement and patient-centeredness at CMMI can be found here. Click here to view the RFI. Comments are due November 20, 2017.
2. Washington Post: Here’s one place where the doctor is always in and happy to talk
Sarah Vander Schaaff reports on SirusXM’s Doctor Radio channel in The Washington Post. “Within minutes, the phone lines are full. There’s Joe from Tennessee, Jen from Florida, Billy in Illinois and Lisa in Maine. First-time callers and regulars, truckers and nurses. The country is waking up, and Dr. Billy, like the show, is on a roll. He will fill in communication gaps, he tells the audience, as if he were “the Spackle of the medical world.” Doing radio has made the doctors better communicators and more ‘patient-centric’, Brotman said. It has also given them a sense of what the public is feeling. ‘There is a lot of heartache out there, and a lot of tragedy and a lot of frustration.’” Click here to read the article.
3. NEJM: Making Patients and Doctors Happier - The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Lisa Rotenstein, Robert Huckman, and Neil Wagle comment on the benefits of patient-reported outcomes in The New England Journal of Medicine “...[A]s comfort with patient-reported outcoms (PRO) has grown, feedback has increasingly underscored that clinicians find collecting PROs to be beneficial rather than burdensome. Evidence from experienced users suggests PRO collection is not only feasible and good for clinical care but also may enhance physician satisfaction and prevent burnout, for several reasons.” Click here to read the article.
4. RTI International: How can patient-centered research plus consumer technologies improve health decisions?
RTI International and AcademyHealth have partnered on an open access journal to advance vidence on Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support. “...Since 2016, RTI international has led the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network (www.pccds-ln.org), funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Part of that project, the special eGEMS section will now disseminate new methods and strategies that advance the science of patient-centered clinical decision support— from comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, and quality improvement studies— using electronic health data and evidence.” Click here to read the article.
5. Modern Medicine: The next wave of patient-centered health IT
Mary Pratt comments on the patient-centered focus of next generation healthcare IT in Modern Medicine. “Healthcare is moving past its earlier struggles with electronic health records (EHRs) and is now focused on how to leverage the next generation of healthcare IT to improve patient care and adherence. The influx of these new technologies ranges from “smart” EHR systems that harness analytics to offer decision support tools, to apps that help patients better manage their day-to-day medical needs, to secure messaging that allows real-time physician collaboration from anywhere. The aim of these new high-tech tools, according to health IT experts, is to help physicians provide better care, work more efficiently and lower costs.” Click here to read the article.
6. CMS Measure Development Education and Outreach Series
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced that they are seeking participants for the Measure Development Education and Outreach series, specifically for stakeholders invested in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) quality measurement development. “In partnership with our Measure Management System (MMS) contractor, Battelle, CMS will be hosting a monthly series of educational presentations on the measure development process and related topics that will include the opportunity for open discussion on measure development with CMS and your peer organizations. In addition to these education and outreach sessions, we are also offering groups currently developing QPP quality measures an opportunity to share your proposed measures and measure concepts with CMS through a spotlight series.” Contact [email protected] if you are interested in participating.
7. Epilepsy Foundation: 2017-2018 AAHD Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability
The American Association on Health and Disability’s Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability is currently accepting applications. The scholarship honors Frederick J. Krause, a lifelong advocate for those with disabilities who passed away in 2014. Beginning with his role as a special education teacher, Mr. Krause’s distinguished career in advocacy included service in the federal government and the cofounding of the American Association on Health and Disability. The scholarship pays tribute to Mr. Krause by awarding scholarships to students with disabilities that are pursuing an education on disability-related topics. Click here to apply. Deadline: November 15, 2017.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars
Cycle 2 2017 Application Submission Webinar
October 10, 2017
Click here for details.
Dissemination & Implementation Applicant Town Hall - Cycle 3 2017
October 12, 2017
Click here for details.
Virtual Summit: High-Deductible Health Plans, They’re Here to Stay, so How Can Employers Enhance the Experience?
October 12, 2017
Click here for details.
ASHRM 2017 Conference and Exhibition
October 15-18
Click here for details.
NPC @ AMCP Nexus 2017 and AMCP Foundation Research Symposium
October 16, 2017
Click here for details.
Measuring Value in Healthcare
October 17, 2017
Click here for details.
Navigating Research Partnerships that Include Patients with Serious Acute or Medically Complex Conditions
October 17, 2017
Click here for details.
Accelerate Real World Evidence: Leveraging Data for Faster Time to Insight
October 18, 2017
Click here for details.
PCORI Online Cycle 3 2017 LOI Submission Webinar
October 18, 2017
Click here for details.
PCORnet Best Practice Sharing Session – PCORnet Commons Tools for Electronic Consent Workgroup Webinar Series: Part 1. PCORnet Case Studies
October 23, 2017
Click here for details.
Improving Methods PFA LOI Town Hall - Cycle 3 2017
October 24, 2017
Click here for details.
2017 PCORI Annual Meeting
October 31-November 2
Click here for details.
NPC @ 13th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference
November 14-16, 2017
Click here for details.
9. Medical Journal Articles
Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Care — Hearing the Patient Voice at Greater Volume, click here to view.
Comparing Levels of Evidence Between Choosing Wisely and Essential Evidence Plus, click here to view.
Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending, click here to view.
Scale Linking to Enable Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures Assessed with Different Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, click here to view.
Should Clinically Meaningful Outcomes in Cancer Be Based on Individual Survival Rather than Median Overall Survival? Click here to view.
Extending the Reach of Evidence-Based Medicine: A Proposed Categorization of Lower-Level Evidence, click here to view.
Evidence-Based Medicine in Otolaryngology, Part 6: Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice, click here to view.
Evolution of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Their Role in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials, click here to view.
Multivariate and Network Meta-Analysis of Multiple Outcomes and Multiple Treatments: Rationale, Concepts, and Examples, click here to view.
Towards Evidence-Based Computational Statistics: Lessons from Clinical Research on the Role and Design of Real-Data Benchmark Studies, click hereto view.
Cost-Effectiveness of Evolocumab Therapy for Reducing Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, click here to view.
Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement to Improve Patient Care, click here to view.
Different Weights of the Evidence-Based Medicine Triad in Regulatory, Health Technology Assessment, and Clinical Decision Making, click here to view.
Addressing the Social Needs of Hypertensive Patients: The Role of Patient–Provider Communication as a Predictor of Medication Adherence, click hereto view.
10. AHRQ Effective Program Updates
Management of Insomnia Disorder - Consumer and Clinician Summaries, click here to view
Harms of First-Line Depression Treatment in Older Adults, click here to view.
Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence - Clinician Summary, click here to view.
Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Patients: A Systematic Review Update, click here to view.
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Major Orthopedic Surgery: Systematic Review Update, click here to view.
Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: A Systematic Review Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view.
Drug Therapy for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults – An Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view.
Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Systematic Review Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view
Tympanostomy Tubes in Children with Otitis Media -- Final Report, click here to view
Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review -- Final Report, click here to view.
Assessment Tools for Palliative Care -- Final Report, click here to view.
Noninvasive, Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain, click here to view.
The Role of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Asthma, click here to view
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking insights on a new direction to promote patient-centered care and test market-driven reforms that empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. In response, the Chairman Tony Coelho of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) applauded CMS and Administrator Verma for making strong statements in support of patients and patient-centered care, and releasing an RFI to set a new direction for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that supports patients, caregivers and people with disabilities. PIPC has long advocated for CMMI to engage patients and people with disabilities early in the development of patient-centered demonstrations that have the potential to improve patient outcomes while lowering costs. As part of the effort to move CMMI in a new direction, Chairman Coelho urges CMMI to establish meaningful mechanisms for patients and people with disabilities to engage in the development of these models. He also urges CMS to develop meaningful patient-centeredness criteria that would enable CMMI and the public to determine whether APMs are truly putting patients first. PIPC is reviewing the RFI in more detail and looks forward to working with CMMI on a new direction that puts patients at the center. Additional information on PIPC’s recommendations for patient engagement and patient-centeredness at CMMI can be found here. Click here to view the RFI. Comments are due November 20, 2017.
2. Washington Post: Here’s one place where the doctor is always in and happy to talk
Sarah Vander Schaaff reports on SirusXM’s Doctor Radio channel in The Washington Post. “Within minutes, the phone lines are full. There’s Joe from Tennessee, Jen from Florida, Billy in Illinois and Lisa in Maine. First-time callers and regulars, truckers and nurses. The country is waking up, and Dr. Billy, like the show, is on a roll. He will fill in communication gaps, he tells the audience, as if he were “the Spackle of the medical world.” Doing radio has made the doctors better communicators and more ‘patient-centric’, Brotman said. It has also given them a sense of what the public is feeling. ‘There is a lot of heartache out there, and a lot of tragedy and a lot of frustration.’” Click here to read the article.
3. NEJM: Making Patients and Doctors Happier - The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Lisa Rotenstein, Robert Huckman, and Neil Wagle comment on the benefits of patient-reported outcomes in The New England Journal of Medicine “...[A]s comfort with patient-reported outcoms (PRO) has grown, feedback has increasingly underscored that clinicians find collecting PROs to be beneficial rather than burdensome. Evidence from experienced users suggests PRO collection is not only feasible and good for clinical care but also may enhance physician satisfaction and prevent burnout, for several reasons.” Click here to read the article.
4. RTI International: How can patient-centered research plus consumer technologies improve health decisions?
RTI International and AcademyHealth have partnered on an open access journal to advance vidence on Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support. “...Since 2016, RTI international has led the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network (www.pccds-ln.org), funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Part of that project, the special eGEMS section will now disseminate new methods and strategies that advance the science of patient-centered clinical decision support— from comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, and quality improvement studies— using electronic health data and evidence.” Click here to read the article.
5. Modern Medicine: The next wave of patient-centered health IT
Mary Pratt comments on the patient-centered focus of next generation healthcare IT in Modern Medicine. “Healthcare is moving past its earlier struggles with electronic health records (EHRs) and is now focused on how to leverage the next generation of healthcare IT to improve patient care and adherence. The influx of these new technologies ranges from “smart” EHR systems that harness analytics to offer decision support tools, to apps that help patients better manage their day-to-day medical needs, to secure messaging that allows real-time physician collaboration from anywhere. The aim of these new high-tech tools, according to health IT experts, is to help physicians provide better care, work more efficiently and lower costs.” Click here to read the article.
6. CMS Measure Development Education and Outreach Series
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced that they are seeking participants for the Measure Development Education and Outreach series, specifically for stakeholders invested in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) quality measurement development. “In partnership with our Measure Management System (MMS) contractor, Battelle, CMS will be hosting a monthly series of educational presentations on the measure development process and related topics that will include the opportunity for open discussion on measure development with CMS and your peer organizations. In addition to these education and outreach sessions, we are also offering groups currently developing QPP quality measures an opportunity to share your proposed measures and measure concepts with CMS through a spotlight series.” Contact [email protected] if you are interested in participating.
7. Epilepsy Foundation: 2017-2018 AAHD Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability
The American Association on Health and Disability’s Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability is currently accepting applications. The scholarship honors Frederick J. Krause, a lifelong advocate for those with disabilities who passed away in 2014. Beginning with his role as a special education teacher, Mr. Krause’s distinguished career in advocacy included service in the federal government and the cofounding of the American Association on Health and Disability. The scholarship pays tribute to Mr. Krause by awarding scholarships to students with disabilities that are pursuing an education on disability-related topics. Click here to apply. Deadline: November 15, 2017.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars
Cycle 2 2017 Application Submission Webinar
October 10, 2017
Click here for details.
Dissemination & Implementation Applicant Town Hall - Cycle 3 2017
October 12, 2017
Click here for details.
Virtual Summit: High-Deductible Health Plans, They’re Here to Stay, so How Can Employers Enhance the Experience?
October 12, 2017
Click here for details.
ASHRM 2017 Conference and Exhibition
October 15-18
Click here for details.
NPC @ AMCP Nexus 2017 and AMCP Foundation Research Symposium
October 16, 2017
Click here for details.
Measuring Value in Healthcare
October 17, 2017
Click here for details.
Navigating Research Partnerships that Include Patients with Serious Acute or Medically Complex Conditions
October 17, 2017
Click here for details.
Accelerate Real World Evidence: Leveraging Data for Faster Time to Insight
October 18, 2017
Click here for details.
PCORI Online Cycle 3 2017 LOI Submission Webinar
October 18, 2017
Click here for details.
PCORnet Best Practice Sharing Session – PCORnet Commons Tools for Electronic Consent Workgroup Webinar Series: Part 1. PCORnet Case Studies
October 23, 2017
Click here for details.
Improving Methods PFA LOI Town Hall - Cycle 3 2017
October 24, 2017
Click here for details.
2017 PCORI Annual Meeting
October 31-November 2
Click here for details.
NPC @ 13th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference
November 14-16, 2017
Click here for details.
9. Medical Journal Articles
Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Care — Hearing the Patient Voice at Greater Volume, click here to view.
Comparing Levels of Evidence Between Choosing Wisely and Essential Evidence Plus, click here to view.
Low-Cost, High-Volume Health Services Contribute The Most To Unnecessary Health Spending, click here to view.
Scale Linking to Enable Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures Assessed with Different Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, click here to view.
Should Clinically Meaningful Outcomes in Cancer Be Based on Individual Survival Rather than Median Overall Survival? Click here to view.
Extending the Reach of Evidence-Based Medicine: A Proposed Categorization of Lower-Level Evidence, click here to view.
Evidence-Based Medicine in Otolaryngology, Part 6: Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice, click here to view.
Evolution of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Their Role in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials, click here to view.
Multivariate and Network Meta-Analysis of Multiple Outcomes and Multiple Treatments: Rationale, Concepts, and Examples, click here to view.
Towards Evidence-Based Computational Statistics: Lessons from Clinical Research on the Role and Design of Real-Data Benchmark Studies, click hereto view.
Cost-Effectiveness of Evolocumab Therapy for Reducing Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, click here to view.
Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement to Improve Patient Care, click here to view.
Different Weights of the Evidence-Based Medicine Triad in Regulatory, Health Technology Assessment, and Clinical Decision Making, click here to view.
Addressing the Social Needs of Hypertensive Patients: The Role of Patient–Provider Communication as a Predictor of Medication Adherence, click hereto view.
10. AHRQ Effective Program Updates
Management of Insomnia Disorder - Consumer and Clinician Summaries, click here to view
Harms of First-Line Depression Treatment in Older Adults, click here to view.
Management of Renal Masses and Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current State of the Evidence - Clinician Summary, click here to view.
Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Patients: A Systematic Review Update, click here to view.
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Major Orthopedic Surgery: Systematic Review Update, click here to view.
Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: A Systematic Review Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view.
Drug Therapy for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults – An Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view.
Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Systematic Review Update -- Research Protocol, click here to view
Tympanostomy Tubes in Children with Otitis Media -- Final Report, click here to view
Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: An Update Review -- Final Report, click here to view.
Assessment Tools for Palliative Care -- Final Report, click here to view.
Noninvasive, Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain, click here to view.
The Role of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Asthma, click here to view
