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PIPC Weekly Update - July 20, 2015

7/20/2015

In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Survey Results: Patients Value Choice in Treatments, Access to Different Options, click here to view a summary.
2. National Health Council Releases Report on Patient-Centeredness in State Exchanges, click here to view the report.
3. PCORI Releases Framework on Compensation for Patients and Caregivers Engaged in Research, click here to view the document.
4. National Patient Advocate Foundation Releases White Paper on Clinical Pathways, click here to view the white paper.
5. NYT: The Error in ‘There’s Nothing More We Can Do’, click here to view.
6. Science Magazine: Supporters Defend Threatened Health Research Agency, click here to view the article.
7. Pink Sheet: ASCO Value Framework Could Inform Clinical Pathways, Payers Say, click here to view the article (subscription only).

New Survey Results: Patients Value Choice in Treatments, Access to Different Options

7/14/2015

Results from a poll of 1,500 registered voters strongly suggest that Americans want to be active participants in determining their healthcare treatments, and prefer limited government intervention when it comes to the treatments they can access.

PIPC Weekly Update - July 13, 2015

7/13/2015

In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho: Strategies to Engage and Empower the Patient in Care Delivery: Just Ask the Patient, click here to view the article.
2. Morning Consult: The Great Threat of Rising Health Care Costs, click here to view the article.
3. PCORI Blog: A Learning Laboratory for Partnership Development: Initial Findings, click here to view the blog post.
4. PCORI Blog: What's New in PCORI's Cycle 2 2015 Funding Announcements: Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, click here to view the blog post.
5. AJMC Videos: Improving Data Availability; Determining Value for Breakthrough Therapies, click here and here to view the videos.
6. University of Maryland: CER and PCOR Summer Institute 2015, see details below.

Chairman's Corner: Strategies to Engage and Empower the Patient in Care Delivery: Just Ask the Patient

7/9/2015

There’s a lot of talk right now about moving health care towards value-based payment models. But will these new models reward care that patients actually value? Maybe. It depends, first and foremost, on bringing patients into the conversation and giving them a meaningful voice.

The Affordable Care Act embraced important patient-centered principles, through the creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and its embrace of concepts like shared decision-making in health care. The shift from a payment system based on quantity to quality could be promising – depending on how we define quality. But if the healthcare system of the future is to achieve outcomes that matter to patients, it must systematically engage patients in their own healthcare decision-making and in governance. Without this sustained commitment, the enterprise will too easily slip to one that merely rewards providers for achieving cost containment through fewer treatment or service choices for patients.

PIPC Weekly Update - July 6, 2015

7/6/2015

In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Provides Recommendations to Senate Finance Committee on Development of Chronic Care Legislation, click here to view the letter.
2. Forbes: We Must Return To Patient-Centered Care, Compensate Physicians For End Of Life Conversations, click here to view the article.
3. Wall Street Journal: Health-Data Donors Aim to Aid Science, click here to view the article.
4. KevinMD Blog: Patient Engagement Is in Search of a Definition, click here to view the blog post.
5. PCORI Blog: A Textbook Example of Patient-Driven Research, click here to view the blog post.
6. University of Maryland: CER and PCOR Summer Institute 2015, see details below

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PIPC Weekly Update - July 20, 2015

New Survey Results: Patients Value Choice in Treatments, Access to Different Options

PIPC Weekly Update - July 13, 2015

Chairman's Corner: Strategies to Engage and Empower the Patient in Care Delivery: Just Ask the Patient

PIPC Weekly Update - July 6, 2015

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