US News & World Report; April 30, 2015
In his first blog post for US News and World Report, Seth Ginsberg, PI for the AR-PoWER PPRN, describes PCORnet as an emergent opportunity for patients to work more closely than ever before with researchers, leading to a much better understand of health conditions and outcomes. Ginsberg observes that placing patients and their families at the center of research is an important paradigm shift because traditional methods of conducting health research haven’t focused on the questions and outcomes that matter most to patients, their families, or their doctors.