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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 2010. A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12868.
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A FOUNDATION FOR EVIDENCE-DRIVEN PRACTICE

A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Sharon Murphy and Margie Patlak, Rapporteurs

National Cancer Policy Forum

Board on Health Care Services

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OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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This study was supported by Contract Nos. HHSN261200900003C, 200-2005-13434, TO #1, and Grant No. 8744 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Cancer Society, respectively. This study was also supported by the Food and Drug Administration, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Association of American Cancer Institutes, and C-Change. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.

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WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE

AMY ABERNETHY, Associate Professor,

Duke University Medical Center;

Associate Director for Population Sciences, Information Technology and Informatics,

Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Palliative Care, Durham, NC

PETER B. BACH, Associate Attending Physician,

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, New York

LYNN M. ETHEREDGE, Independent Consultant,

Rapid Learning Project, George Washington University, Washington, DC

PATRICIA A. GANZ, Professor of Health Services and Medicine,

UCLA Schools of Medicine & Public Health, and

Director,

Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA

ROBERT R. GERMAN, Associate Director for Science,

Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

CHALAPATHY NETI, Associate Director,

Healthcare Transformation, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY

PAUL J. WALLACE, Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs and Senior Advisor for the Care Management Institute and Avivia Health,

The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

Project Staff

SHARON B. MURPHY, Scholar-in-Residence and Project Director

CASSANDRA L. CACACE, Research Assistant

MICHAEL PARK, Senior Program Assistant

SHARYL J. NASS, Director,

National Cancer Policy Forum

ROGER HERDMAN, Director,

Board on Health Care Services

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NATIONAL CANCER POLICY FORUM1

HAROLD MOSES (Chair), Director Emeritus,

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN

FRED APPELBAUM, Director,

Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

PETER B. BACH, Associate Attending Physician,

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

EDWARD BENZ, JR., President,

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and

Director,

Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, MA

THOMAS G. BURISH, Past Chair,

American Cancer Society Board of Directors and

Provost,

Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN

MICHAELE CHAMBLEE CHRISTIAN, Retired,

Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC

ROBERT ERWIN, President,

Marti Nelson Cancer Foundation, Davis, CA

BETTY R. FERRELL, Research Scientist,

City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA

JOSEPH F. FRAUMENI, JR., Director,

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

PATRICIA A. GANZ, Professor,

UCLA Schools of Medicine & Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA

ROBERT R. GERMAN, Associate Director for Science (Acting),

Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

ROY S. HERBST, Chief,

Thoracic/Head & Neck, Medical Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

THOMAS J. KEAN, Executive Director,

C-Change, Washington, DC

JOHN MENDELSOHN, President, M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

JOHN E. NIEDERHUBER, Director,

National Cancer Institute

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IOM forums and roundtables do not issue, review, or approve individual documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.

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DAVID R. PARKINSON, President and CEO,

Nodality, Inc., San Francisco, CA

SCOTT RAMSEY, Full Member,

Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

JOHN WAGNER, Executive Director,

Clinical Pharmacology, Merck and Company, Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ

JANET WOODCOCK, Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer,

Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD

National Cancer Policy Forum Staff

ROGER HERDMAN, Director,

Board on Health Care Services

SHARYL NASS, Director,

National Cancer Policy Forum

LAURA LEVIT, Program Officer

CHRISTINE MICHEEL, Program Officer

ERIN BALOGH, Research Associate

MICHAEL PARK, Senior Program Assistant

ASHLEY MCWILLIAMS, Senior Program Assistant

PATRICK BURKE, Financial Associate

SHARON MURPHY, Scholar-in-Residence

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

JOSEPH LIPSCOMB, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

STEVE E. PHURROUGH, Center for Medical Technology Policy, Baltimore, MD

HAROLD C. SOX, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

PETER PAUL YU, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by James O. Armitage of University of Nebraska Medical Center. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that

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an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authors and the institution.

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Preface

There is a compelling public interest to advance the evidence base for cancer treatment and control measures, and to transform the way evidence is aggregated and applied in real-time, driving the process of discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care, to ensure innovation, quality, safety, and value. A learning health care system for cancer would take full advantage of private and public sector databases and emerging information technology, including electronic medical records, to advance clinical cancer data, both as a public utility and a point-of-care patient-centered clinical decision support system. In light of substantial public investments in health information technology and comparative effectiveness research, this workshop is both timely and topical. The promise of personalized cancer medicine and targeted therapies for cancer add further urgency to foster development of rapid learning systems to know what works and deliver higher value cancer care.

The goal of this workshop is to foster progress toward this vision for a rapid learning health care system for cancer. The workshop will examine the foundation stones upon which to build such a system and explore aspects of information technology which will enable such a system to operate seamlessly. An important aspect of rapid learning which will be examined is patient-driven, highlighting the rapidly expanding importance of partici-

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patory cancer care. The impact on oncology providers and policy challenges will be examined with the aim of stimulating collaboration and action.


Sincerely,

Sharon B. Murphy

Scholar-in-Residence, National Cancer Policy Forum, Institute of Medicine

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