Policy Matters: December 2017
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Lesley Curtis to Lead Duke’s New Department of Population Health Sciences
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Lesley Curtis, PhD, has been named to serve as the first chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine.
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New Collaborative to Advance Regulatory Use of Real-World Evidence
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy is forming a
new collaborative to advance policy development related to the regulatory acceptability of real-world evidence (RWE). The Collaborative will engage major stakeholders to help advise and guide high priority efforts aimed at improving the development and use of RWE, with the express aim of informing and supporting the FDA as it works to meet RWE milestones as established in the 21
st Century Cures Act and the sixth Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA VI).
The RWE Collaborative will consist of
an advisory group that will include senior representation from medical product developers, payers, research groups, providers, patient networks, and regulators and will steer working groups and contribute to the Collaborative’s recommendations.
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Healthcare Consumers Find Little Information Online
Trying to be an informed healthcare consumer in the United States is harder than you might think, according to researchers from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. When consumers search for healthcare prices online, only 17 percent of sites provide information on the price of common procedures, making it difficult for patients without insurance, who have high-deductible plans, or whose plans include other kinds of cost sharing to determine how much their care will cost and what they will pay out of pocket.
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Health Affairs Blog: 2016 Medicare ACO Results
Medicare Accountable Care Organization Results For 2016: Seeing Improvement, Transformation Takes Time -- read more from Robert Saunders, David Muhlestein, and Mark McClellan on the
Health Affairs Blog.
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Enhancing Primary Care and Cardiology Collaboration Through Payment Reform
In a review published today in
JAMA Cardiology, the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and professional societies representing primary care and cardiology describe a conceptual approach to more effective collaboration between cardiology and primary care physicians in treating patients with chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Margolis Seminar
The Margolis Seminar, held from noon-1:30 pm every other Friday, is a venue for sharing work in process and expertise across Duke University and with the Duke-Margolis team in Washington, DC. If you are interested in being added to the mailing list, please contact
Hilary Campbell.
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Public Workshop: Oncology Clinical Trials in the Presence of Non-Proportional Hazards
February 5, 2018 - 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
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2018 Sentinel Initiative Annual Public Workshop
February 7, 2018 - 9:00 am
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Duke I&E Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Early-Stage Ideas
The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative announces the creation of the Duke Incubation Fund, a vehicle for enabling idea-stage projects originating within the campus innovation ecosystem.
The Fund will offer awards to Duke faculty, graduate students, post-docs and medical residents and fellows to support early-stage ideas based on Duke intellectual property with the potential to go to market and impact society.
Each award will consist of up to $20,000 (direct costs
only
). Funds may be spent within Duke or within a start-up company formed to commercialize the innovation. Applications are welcome from all fields of inquiry. Application Submission Deadline is January 8
th
, 2018.
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Awards, Honors and Presentations
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Sorenson Leads Project to Address Low-Value Health Care
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Mark McClellan, MD, PhD,
was featured on Becker's Hospital Review's podcast, focusing on a recent report from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network that looks at the adoption rate of alternative payment models.
Listen to the podcast
Greg Daniel, PhD, MPH,
was a panelist at the FDA/CMS Summit FasterCures Workshop, Innovations in the Science of Patient Input on December 6, 2017.
David Anderson, MS
, commented in
Politico
on CVS/Aetna's potential integrated data mining between the customer loyalty program and pregnancy indicators and in
Axios
on the bipartisan ACA bill.
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