Oct 4

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Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Conducting Real-Time Safety Evaluation with Medicare Data: Learnings from the SafeRx Project

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Summary

On October 4, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a roundtable webinar, "Conducting Real-Time Safety Evaluation with Medicare Data: Learnings from the SafeRx Project."

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The roundtable featured a presentation by Dr. Judy Racoosin of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who discussed a study conducted in the Medicare database that evaluated the impact of lags in claim processing and claim information updates (claims adjudication) on real-time evaluation of drug safety signals. This study was performed as part of the SafeRx project, a collaboration between FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to utilize Medicare data for medical product active surveillance. Mini-Sentinel collaborators – including Dr. Jeff Brown of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Dr. Jennifer Nelson of Group Health Research Institute and University of Washington School of Public Health – made additional comments regarding how the Mini-Sentinel Coordinating Center will evaluate similar issues in the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Dataset.

Details

October 4, 2010

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

The Brookings Institution

Live Webinar

1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW

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Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform

(202) 797-4391

Event Agenda

  • Welcome and Introduction

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      Mark B. McClellan

      Director

      Economic Studies

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  • SafeRx Project Overview and Data Limitations

    • Judy Racoosin

      Scientific Lead, Sentinel Initiative, Office of Medical Policy

      Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration

  • Remarks from Mini-Sentinel Collaborators

    • Jeff Brown

      Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

    • Jennifer Nelson

      Associate Investigator, Biostatistics Unit, Group Health Research Institute

      Affiliate Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington

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