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Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform - A Framework for Improving Care and Slowing Health Care Cost Growth

April 2013

Physician Leadership in Payment Reform

April 10, 2013

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Accessing and Communicating Device Information: UDI as a Tool for Improved Patient and Provider Connectivity

March 18, 2013

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) at their heart are about aligning providers’ financial incentives with patients’ needs for better health and lower cost care. Unlike traditional third-party, fee-for-service insurance, which pays more for doing more, the payment models underlying accountable care pay more for achieving better care at lower cost.

March 4, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Wall Street Journal

Incentives for Change: Addressing the Challenges in Antibacterial Drug Development

February 27, 2013

Payer Involvement in the Sentinel Initiative

February 21, 2013

Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop

January 31, 2013

It’s the biggest expansion of Medicaid in a long time, and the biggest ever in terms of adults covered. Although the federal government is on the hook for most of the cost, Medicaid on the whole is one of the biggest items in state budgets and the fastest growing. So there are some understandable concerns about the financial implications and how implementation would work.

January 28, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, The Associated Press

The steps that I think are most promising are really about changing payment methods to reward providers for better health outcomes.

January 21, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Financial Times

UDI Expert Workshop #2: Identifying Steps for Implementation and Integration of UDI within Electronic Data Infrastructure of Care Delivery Sites

December 13, 2012

New Policy Directions for Biomedical Innovation

November 19, 2012

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Nonprescription Medications with Conditions of Safe Use as a Novel Solution for Undertreated Diseases or Conditions

November 8, 2012

The Value of Unique Device Identification (UDI) for Health Care Systems and Providers

November 5, 2012

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UDI Expert Workshop #1: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges Associated with Capturing UDIs in Claims

October 15, 2012

Whoever wins the election, the (health care law) is going to be modified.

September 26, 2012, Mark B. McClellan, The Associated Press

Overcoming Statistical Challenges to the Reuse of Data within the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database

September 5, 2012

Brookings Council on Antibacterial Drug Development Meeting #1

August 30, 2012

The Future of the Affordable Care Act

August 10, 2012, Mark B. McClellan

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Highlights from the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership’s (OMOP) Annual Symposium

August 8, 2012

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Unique Device Identification (UDI) Implementation Work Group Kick-Off

July 16, 2012

Progress from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

July 12, 2012

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State of Biomedical Innovation Conference

June 27, 2012

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Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance European Medicines Agency’s Postmarket Drug Safety Activities: Overview of PROTECT

June 20, 2012

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Facilitating Antibacterial Drug Development

May 9, 2012

Campaign 2012: The Future of Health Care

May 4, 2012

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