by Ileana Balcu | Feb 15, 2013
The Health Affairs February 2013 issue is titled “New Era of Patient Engagement” and the content matches the title. Nick Dawson describes the day in his blog post Health Affairs is the new shirtless dancing guy Here’s a short extract from the blog...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 9, 2013
The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI) was established in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act with a mission to help people make informed health care decisions, and improves health care delivery and outcomes, by producing and promoting high integrity,...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 16, 2013
This is the third of 3 recommendations a group of Boston-based PCORI Ambassadors made to the PCORI Board in November. The first was Expanding the Scope of Research Questions Funded, the second, Micro-contracts. Researchers typically struggle to include...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 6, 2013
Addition Oct 2014: added link to the Reproducibility Initiative, now at validation.ScienceExchange.com Correction Monday morning: the project is called the Reproducibility Initiative, not Project. Also, note that we got a comment from co-founder Elizabeth Iorns...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 4, 2013
Susan Woods responded to my previous post, PCORI and Just-In Time Decisions with the research funding system doesn’t really work for anyone. It is in concrete, Agreed.  Micro Contracts could be a small intervention that could help move the dial. (As a reminder,...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 2, 2013
Jan. 3 update: See important update at bottom – the site owner has identified himself. I’m extremely troubled by this development, so much so I’m stopping a tight-deadline task to write this. Let’s hope that as things unfold this will resolve....
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