Integrating and Expanding the Clinical Research Networks // Site: Group Health Cooperative

Group Health Cooperative

Seattle, WA

Principal Investigator:		Eric B. Larson, M.D., M.P.H.
Contact information:		GroupHealth Cooperative 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600 Seattle, WA 98101
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Program Title:		HMO Research Network Coordinated Clinical Studies Network (HMORN)
Program Description:
The mission of the HMO Research Network Coordinated Clinical Studies Network (HMORN CCSN) is to foster a sustainable, shared research infrastructure to enhance collaborative multi-site clinical research in order to improve health care for our health plan members, our communities and our nation. The CCSN is committed to the principles of transparency, flexibility, innovation, and discovery. The HMORN is an unparalleled research facility for clinical and health services research. HMORN member health plans provide comprehensive services in every U.S. region ranging from prevention to palliation, to a defined population of 13 million people or 4% of the U.S. population. The CCSN will provide infrastructure enhancements to the HMORN in the areas of project planning and development, research review, project implementation, systematized data collection and monitoring, project closeout, and dissemination. This infrastructure will dramatically increase the HMORN's ability to respond to questions of national research interest, increase the pace that efficacious interventions are moved into practice, and improve research applicability across the diversity of real-world health care delivery systems.