Letter to Congressional Leaders Negotiating Health Reform Compromise re Comparative Effectiveness Research
(January 8, 2010)

Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairmen thanking them for their support of HSR in the Appropriations Act of FY2010
(December 14, 2009)

Letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Placement, Governance, and Scope of CER
(October 16, 2009)

Letter to NIH Director Francis Collins Describing NIH's Critical Support of HSR and Outlining the Field's Infrastructure Challenges
(September 29, 2009)

Letter to Senate HELP Appropriations Committee Leadership thanking them for their efforts to bolster HSR and health data
(August 3, 2009)

AcademyHealth Submits Comments on Draft Definition of Meaningful Use to the Office of the National Coordination for HIT
(June 25, 2009)

AcademyHealth Submits Comments on Draft Definition to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research
(June 8, 2009)

AcademyHealth Submits Comments to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics on the Meaningful Use of HIT
(April 28, 2009)

AcademyHealth Submits Comments to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research
(April 13, 2009)

AcademyHealth Responds to Request from the Institute of Medicine on Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
(March 27, 2009)

Letter to Senators Inouye, Cochran, Baucus, Grassley, Harkin, and Specter regarding funding for Comparative Effectiveness Research in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(January 28, 2009)

Letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman regarding funding for Comparative Effectiveness Research in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(January 21, 2009)

Letter to AHRQ Director of the Office of Extramural Research regarding AHRQ's Development of an Innovations Research Portfolio
(October 14, 2008)

Letter to the Honorable Max Baucus and the Honorable Kent Conrad, U.S. Senate, Regarding the Comparative Effectiveness Research Act of 2008 (S. 3408)
(August 15, 2008)

Letter to the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Regarding the Timely Release of the Medicare Part D Data Access Final Rule
(October 2, 2007)

Letter to the Honorable Fortney Pete Stark, Chairman, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives Regarding Comparative Effectiveness Research Provisions of H.R. 3162
(September 14, 2007)

AcademyHealth Responds to Request for Information on Establishment of National Health Data Stewardship Entity
(July 26, 2007)

Letter to Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives Regarding Comparative Effectiveness Research
(July 25, 2007)

Letter to Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives Regarding Comparative Effectiveness Research
(July 25, 2007)

Framework for Health Services Research Policy for 2007
(January 2007)

AcademyHealth Submits Comments on CMS's Part D Data Access Rule
(December 18, 2006)

AcademyHealth statement regarding the NIH Peer Review process

Position on the Health Information Privacy Regulation