ECRI Institute Technology Assessment Policy Conference 2008

描述(由申请人提供)：ECRI研究所是一个独立的非营利性组织，致力于将应用科学研究的学科引入医疗保健，以揭示改善患者护理的最佳方法。作为近40年来这门科学的先驱，ECRI研究所将经验和独立性与循证研究的客观性结合在一起。ECRI研究所被指定为世界卫生组织的合作中心和卫生保健研究和质量机构(AHRQ)的循证实践中心(EPC)。ECRI研究所计划并举办了15次年度会议，讨论在政策和实践中使用证据方面至关重要的问题。我们的十五次会议都聚焦于AHRQ非常感兴趣和重要的主题。2008年的会议将是对医疗保健“价值”的审查，它在程序上与去年的比较有效性会议相联系。这些活动的结构就像合作编辑的书籍，旨在讲述一个新出现的问题背后的故事，这个问题对政策和实践很重要，需要严格的方法支持才能将证据纳入审议。“基于价值的采购”、“基于价值的福利设计”和“基于价值的定价”是越来越多地在医疗保健市场中使用的术语，因此我们的内部和外部咨询委员会成员同意将其作为我们2008年的重点。过去和预计在2008年举行的会议的与会者包括来自以下组织的高级管理人员、临床医生和研究人员：健康计划和保险公司、提供者组织、雇主、制药公司、医疗器械制造商、研究组织和消费者团体、州和联邦政府机构以及民选官员和司法机构成员。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit organization, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to healthcare to uncover the best approaches to improving patient care. As pioneers in this science for nearly 40 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research. ECRI Institute is designated a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). ECRI Institute has planned and conducted fifteen annual conferences that address issues of vital importance in the use of evidence in policy and practice. Each of our fifteen conferences has been focused on topics of great interest and importance to AHRQ. The 2008 conference will be an examination of "value" in healthcare, and it is programmatically linked to last year's conference on comparative effectiveness. These events are constructed like collaboratively edited books aimed at telling a story behind an emerging issue that is important for policy and practice, and that needs the support of rigorous methodologies to bring evidence into the deliberations. "Value-based purchasing," "value-based benefits design," and "value-based pricing," are terms that are used increasingly in the healthcare marketplace, so our internal and external advisory committee members have agreed upon this as our 2008 focus. Conference attendees in the past, and expected in 2008, include senior executives, clinicians, and researchers from the following kinds of organizations: health plans and insurers, provider organizations, employers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, research organizations and consumer groups, and State and Federal government agencies, as well as elected officials and members of the judiciary.