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Grants: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Fri, 2012-04-27 17:01 — healthinfolaw_admin


 

Sec. 6301 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

 

  • Office Functions.

  • The Office of Communication and Knowledge Transfer (“Office”), housed in the AHRQ, must disseminate the information produced by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute after consulting with the NIH. The Office must develop tools to facilitate dissemination to physicians, health care providers, patients, payers, and policymakers and establish a public database of government-funded research.175
  • The Office must disseminate the Institute’s research regarding comparative clinical effectiveness research to physicians, health care providers, patients, vendors of health information technology focused on clinical decision support, appropriate professional associations, and Federal and private health plans.”176 The means used to disseminate the research findings must describe “considerations for specific subpopulations, the research methodology” and limitations, and the entities that conducted the research.177 The Office must ensure that the information disseminated is not “construed as mandates, guidelines, or recommendations for payment, coverage, or treatment.”178
  • The Office must help “users of health information technology focused on clinical decision support to promote the timely incorporation of research findings…into clinical practices and to promote the ease of use of such incorporation.”179
  • Grants. The AHRQ, after consulting with the NIH, must create a grant program in order to train researchers. The training, at minimum, must “be in methods that meet the methodological standards adopted in section 1181(d)(9) of the [Social Security Act].”180
  • Data Registries. The Secretary of Health and Human Services must build data capacity research by developing “clinical registries and health outcomes research data networks, in order to develop and maintain a comprehensive, interoperable data network to collect, link, and analyze data on outcomes and effectiveness from multiple sources, including electronic health records.”181

    • Contracts. Federal agencies and instrumentalities may contract for the Institute’s services in conducting clinical effectiveness research so long as the agencies or entities have authority derived from their governing statutes.182

     

    Footnotes

    • 175. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(a)(1).
    • 176. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(a)(2).
    • 177. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(a)(2)(A).
    • 178. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(a)(2)(B).
    • 179. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(b).
    • 180. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(e).
    • 181. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(f).
    • 182. Affordable Care Act §6301(b); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(g).

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