Advocate for Change

• PFCD Policy Platform
  • Advance sustainable chronic disease prevention models
  • Promote healthy lifestyles & disease prevention
  • Encourage & reward advances in clinical practice & research
  • Accelerate improvements of health information technology
  • Reduce health disparities
• Candidate Stances
• Take Action

Encourage and reward continuous advances in clinical practice and research that improve the quality of care for those with prevalent and costly chronic diseases

Ideas for Change:

• Reward evidence-based practice with payments to providers tailored to promote the delivery of high-quality care that improves patient outcomes
• Bring clinical best practices to the bed side and promote greater knowledge-sharing between researchers and clinical practitioners
• Support greater opportunities for education on providing quality care to chronically ill patients
• Provide greater funding and support for research and innovation in the fight against the nation's most prevalent and costly chronic diseases
• Expand the research base on best practices in chronic disease prevention, early intervention, and management and use data to define and measure performance