Learning What Works
IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine
July 30, 2008 | Presentation, Slideshow
Carol C. Diamond, MD, MPH
Carol C. Diamond, MD, MPH
On July 30-31, 2008, the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine convened a workshop entitled Learning What Works: Infrastructure Required to Learn Which Care is Best. The goal of the workshop was to clarify the elements and nature of the needed capacity, solicit quantitative and qualitative assessments of the needs, and characterize them in a fashion that will facilitate engagement of the issues by policymakers.
In this presentation, Carol Diamond, MD, MPH, discusses elements critical to the success of comparative effectiveness and other population health efforts, including:
- Clearly define the ultimate goal
- Be open to reset our definitions and assumptions about health data and research approaches
- Articulate new, broadly accepted working principles based on 21st century information paradigms
- Develop an information policy framework that broadly addresses public hopes and concerns
