MedTech Innovation Will Be Key In Health Care Reform, CMS Chief Says

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - October 25, 2010

CMS Administrator Donald Berwick is trying to rally device manufacturers behind health care reform by assuring them that investment in new technologies can be protected even in the midst of great changes in health care delivery.

MedTech Innovation Will Be Key In Health Care Reform, CMS Chief Says

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - October 25, 2010

"I assure you that my commitment to [and] my understanding of the importance of supporting the kind of innovation you're talking about cannot be greater," Berwick told attendees at the AdvaMed 2010 MedTech conference in Washington, D.C. last week.

"We really need you as the pioneers, the explorers to find those new approaches to care that will make care better," Berwick said. "So we're on the same page."

Berwick, a pediatrician, praised advances in medical technology that have dramatically changed the prognosis for patients since he first began practicing medicine.

"There is a long list of illnesses for which I was trained to care … whose profile has completely changed since the time of my training," Berwick said in his Oct. 19 address.

More than 1,700 people attended the AdvaMed conference.

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