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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The brief working life of the Committee to Develop a Plan for a
Private/Public Sector Entity to Assess Technology in Medical Care was
characterized by the dedication of committee members and liaison panel
members alike. Jeremiah Barondess was an eloquent maestro of this
consensus-building enterprise, aided by the creative industry of
subcommittees chaired by Richard Johns, Saul Farber, William Anlyan, and
Margaret McClure. The large number of participants and the diversity
and force of individual views on this subject posed some potential
stress on the deliberative process in such a short-term effort, but the
commitment of everyone on the committee and panels facilitated arrival
at the concord expressed in this report.
The beginnings of this project were developed by participants of a
one-day meeting convened by the Institute and chaired by Frederick
Robbins on June 16, 1982. That meeting framed the broad outlines of
inquiry, and many of its participants later served on this project's
primary committee or its liaison panels. Drawing upon the discussions
at that exploratory meeting, Enriqueta Bond and Karl Yordy designed the
proposal for this follow-up project.
Funding for this project was the result of a deliberate effort to
draw many of the potential constituents of a medical technology
assessment entity into a shareholder relationship with the
problem-solving~planning process. The generous support of the following
corporations and agencies is gratefully acknowledged:
Aetna Life and Casualty
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Health Care Financing Administration, United States
Department of Health and Human Services
Metropolitan Life Foundation
Milbank Memorial Fund
Mutual of Omaha
Public Health Service, United States Department of Health and
Human Services
The Commonwealth Fund
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Gratitude is also expressed to Enriqueta C. Bond for her
administrative support of the project, and to Talitha D. Shipp, who bore
the primary and very substantial secretarial burden in this endeavor.
Alton Hodges
Senior Scholar-in-Residence
Project Director
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