title: Two years into the Sunshine Act: synopsis of opportunities, challenges, learnings, and potential implications.
abstract: Responsible transparency helps to promote integrity between industry and researchers and has the potential to increase public trust. As part of its inevitable evolution, the Open Payments database is likely to have opportunities to increase and improve the context around the data that it reports, thus leading to a decrease in the currently encountered confusion and misinterpretation of the data. A major challenge faced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is to make the data more informative and educational, to allow the Sunshine Act to meet its transparency goals while improving healthcare innovation.
authors.affiliation: a Amgen Inc. , Thousand Oaks , CA , USA.
authors.forename: Dikran
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Toroser
authors.affiliation: b Cactus Communications , Trevose , PA , USA.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pepitone
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D014481:United States
keywords: Industry; Medical writing; Sunshine Act; Transparency