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Introduction to the Workshop
Pages 5-8

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... Workshop Co-Chair Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Office Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (Presented by Sean Tunis) The topic of this workshop, The Role of Purchasers and Payers in the Clinical Research Enterprise, is critical to the quality of patient care, in the sense that the quality of care depends on the quality of information underlying health care decisions.
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... Groups poorly served by the output of the Clinical Research Enterprise are consumers, clinicians, payers, purchasers, and health care policy makers a fairly large and important group of end users of research. Particularly poorly served are clinicians, who need highquality information that speaks to the practical questions that they encounter in day-to-day patient care, and consumers, who count on the quality of evidence available to them to properly inform them in making health care decisions.
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... Allan Korn Similarly, the Clinical Research Enterprise must look to the end users much more as true partners in the enterprise than as "deep pockets" to provide additional funding for clinical research. Sean Tunis f
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... Some The research community must of this shift in emphasis is being driven recognize that a move to this new type unilaterally by purchasers and payers of research leads down a long, difficult who are increasingly taking a more ac road and marks a serious shift in the live role. The goal can be accomplished emphasis of the Clinical Research by the payer-purchaser community com Enterprise that poses huge challenges ing together and bringing its funds and in methodology and infrastructure.
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