Yesterday, one of the leading right-of-center think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute, released a short report titled, “Hitting the Snooze Button on our Medicare Fiscal Alarm Clock.” In it, Tom Miller offers a series of solutions for Medicare to be more efficient and provide better quality care to beneficiaries. Miller writes that information therapy (Ix) is one of the “earlier and smarter interventions to reduce health care problems and lower cost trends” for Medicare.

Two months ago, one of the leading left-of-center think tanks, the Progressive Policy Institute, wrote about the critical role of Ix in its April 3, 2008 edition of PPI Health Policy Wire. David Kendall described the IxCenter’s most recent white paper (written in collaboration with the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making) under the title, “An Ounce of Information Is Worth a Pound of Cure.”

The fact that Ix is showing up as an important element of health care delivery redesign from think tanks on both sides of the political idealogical divide provides another indication of the importance of Ix in any future efforts at health care reform.

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