Most of the research centered on rice, an important crop in those three West African countries.
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Finally, the law invests in the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the CMS Innovation Center, which may lead to new ideas to contain costs as well.
In other words, what Medicare needs is accelerated implementation of initiatives such as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Accountable Care Organizations that are the little-noticed backbone of the Affordable Care Act.
But they also included a foundation built on the fortune of the co-founder of Intel Corp. (the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) and a non-profit created by Congress and expected to give away roughly a billion dollars by 2015, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).