ECRI Personalized Medicine Conference

Bethesda, MD—Implementing and effectively using comparative effectiveness research (CER) and personalized medicine (PM) will require time and better communication among the research community conducting these types of studies and with the public that will be impacted by them, according to participants in a panel discussion on the societal implications of CER and PM held during the ECRI Institute’s Comparative Ef fectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential Interface conference.

Bethesda, MD—Greater adoption of personalized medicine and comparative effectiveness research (CER) in healthcare will depend on coverage of these approaches by public and private payers. But payer evaluation of these approaches is hampered by legislative roadblocks and a lack of research in CER and slowness in adopting CER into clinical practice, according to speakers at a session of the ECRI Institute’s Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential Interface conference.