The Community Oncology Alliance released this PR Newswire:
"......Over this past year, COA convened a task force of practicing oncologists to analyze Best Practices for improving the quality of cancer care while controlling costs, which can also be implemented without major infrastructure changes.
"The result of that effort is embodied in legislation that was recently introduced in the Congress by Representatives Artur Davis, Steve Israel, and Mary Jo Kilroy -- the Medicare Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Project Act of 2009 (H.R. 2872). This bill would create a national cancer care demonstration project, open to all oncology clinics, which would refine quality metrics dealing with recognized, evidence-based treatment guidelines and patient-centric, coordinated care. The demonstration project would include the active involvement of community cancer clinics already using electronic medical records, bringing information to augment data collected by the Medicare system. This is a real-life application of health information technology, and the type of public-private collaborative effort that will be necessary to reform the health care system...."
Kilroy has made a concerted effort to talk with cancer patients and cancer specialists to see how to develop care that works.* I saw a TV ad this morning targeting Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12th). MSNBC has more about this ad and similar ones.
***** Here is the Health Care Now ad that concerns Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi votes against health care reform:
If you'd like to call Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12th), here is the number 1-877-264-4226. Tell him to support health care reform.