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- Telehealth Visits Provide Opportunity for PCORnet® Data Resources November 8, 2023The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a shift to the use of telehealth visits, opening a new frontier in healthcare delivery and an opportunity for PCORnet® data resources to assist researchers in studying the effectiveness of this rapidly evolving method of healthcare delivery.
Many ...
- Tools to Speed Study Start-up October 24, 2023Tools powered by PCORnet® to accelerate research.
Take full command of your research! PCORnet now offers four new tools that empower you to maximize every aspect of your research, including study planning, design, start-up, and execution.
Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) speeds prep-to-research ...
- PCORnet® Leaders Hit the Road to Share How the Network Works and Why Researchers Should Use it to Power Their Next Study September 20, 2023Why and how should you use PCORnet®? That’s the question PCORnet leaders sought to answer when they recently presented at an adjunct event for AcademyHealth’s 2023 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) and at a half-day virtual convening held by NORC in ...
- Researchers will use PCORnet® resources to explore whether cancer screening practices change after weight loss surgery September 13, 2023According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. since 2014 were associated with overweight and obesity. Can weight loss associated with bariatric surgery reduce the risk of some cancers? ...
- PCORnet® Resources to Power Study Exploring the Relationship Between COVID-19 and Diabetes August 3, 2023
A large new study will use PCORnet® to explore the relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes with the goal of guiding future treatment interventions and public health approaches. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) received a four-year, $28 million grant from the ...
- Smoother Processes, Better Data Curation: A Longtime Network User Speaks to the Evolution of PCORnet® July 27, 2023Flash back to 2016, when Hamilton had just premiered on Broadway, the Rio Olympics were in full swing, and Duke University cardiologist Neha Pagidipati first heard about a relatively new network of clinical research networks capable of producing granular insights ...
- We’ve Come a Long Way: Celebrating Research Progress on International Clinical Trials Day May 19, 2023Every year on May 20, the date of the first-ever clinical trial conducted by James Lind in 1747, the world marks International Clinical Trials Day. It’s a time to celebrate all that has been accomplished by the clinical research community—clinicians, ...
- (Almost) 10 Years of PCORnet®: Reflecting on the Network’s Growth and Looking Ahead May 12, 2023PCORnet® stakeholders and leadership team members recently gave a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Collaboratory Grand Rounds webinar presentation on the near decade of research powered by PCORnet, including key accomplishments and the evolution of the Network. The presentation featured ...
- Five ways patients win with PPRL in PCORnet® March 21, 2023Electronic health records (EHRs), administrative claims databases, and other patient data are important sources of healthcare information that can be used for research. However, they live in separate systems, which means researchers typically can’t easily combine insights to understand a ...
- Rigorous patient privacy + connected insights: With PPRL, PCORnet® researchers can have the best of both February 20, 2023Two recent manuscripts published in the journal BMC Research Notes and JAMIA describe the framework and implementation of a new method of connecting patient data across disparate healthcare ecosystems in PCORnet while maintaining the highest levels of privacy and security. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a shift to the use of telehealth visits, opening a new frontier in healthcare delivery and an opportunity for PCORnet® data resources to assist researchers in studying the effectiveness of this rapidly evolving method of healthcare delivery.
Many ...
Tools powered by PCORnet® to accelerate research.
Take full command of your research! PCORnet now offers four new tools that empower you to maximize every aspect of your research, including study planning, design, start-up, and execution.
Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) speeds prep-to-research ...
Why and how should you use PCORnet®? That’s the question PCORnet leaders sought to answer when they recently presented at an adjunct event for AcademyHealth’s 2023 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) and at a half-day virtual convening held by NORC in ...
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. since 2014 were associated with overweight and obesity. Can weight loss associated with bariatric surgery reduce the risk of some cancers? ...
A large new study will use PCORnet® to explore the relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes with the goal of guiding future treatment interventions and public health approaches. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) received a four-year, $28 million grant from the ...
Flash back to 2016, when Hamilton had just premiered on Broadway, the Rio Olympics were in full swing, and Duke University cardiologist Neha Pagidipati first heard about a relatively new network of clinical research networks capable of producing granular insights ...
Every year on May 20, the date of the first-ever clinical trial conducted by James Lind in 1747, the world marks International Clinical Trials Day. It’s a time to celebrate all that has been accomplished by the clinical research community—clinicians, ...
PCORnet® stakeholders and leadership team members recently gave a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Collaboratory Grand Rounds webinar presentation on the near decade of research powered by PCORnet, including key accomplishments and the evolution of the Network. The presentation featured ...
Electronic health records (EHRs), administrative claims databases, and other patient data are important sources of healthcare information that can be used for research. However, they live in separate systems, which means researchers typically can’t easily combine insights to understand a ...
Two recent manuscripts published in the journal BMC Research Notes and JAMIA describe the framework and implementation of a new method of connecting patient data across disparate healthcare ecosystems in PCORnet while maintaining the highest levels of privacy and security. ...
