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MARK McCLELLAN: Good morning, everyone. I’d like to welcome you to today’s event at The Brookings Institution. I’m Mark McClellan. I’m the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings, and delighted to see all of you this morning. We’re delighted to be hosting today forum on Making “Enhanced Use” of Health Information.
Some of you may recall that we’ve been working on this topic for awhile. Most recently we had an event in December where we discussed the importance and feasibility of using the same kinds of data that are generated for helping patients get the best care, generated for purposes of delivering care, routinely; to also apply those data to other topics like population health improvement, and evaluating the quality of medical services and treatment decisions.
And given the importance of these issues, we expect to continue to examine them in forums like this one, and I’m looking forward to a very timely discussion of how these issues are progressing today, so then, obviously, a major focus of federal, state, and local policymaking as we try to move forward in implementing health care reform.
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