Clinical Research Networks
Get To Know The PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks
PCORnet infrastructure offers access to real-world data through partnerships with PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks (CRNs). PCORnet® CRNs are groups of healthcare institutions across the U.S., from large academic health centers to local community clinics, united by a commitment to speed patient-centered research via PCORnet.
PCORnet® CRN Site Profiles
View snapshots of available populations and site capabilities for each PCORnet® CRN partner site.
ADVANCE
Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network (ADVANCE) is a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network that integrates electronic health record and community data for patients across the United States. ADVANCE maintains the nation’s most comprehensive data set on community-based health care organizations and the populations they serve.
Principal Investigators:
Erika Cottrell
Wyatt Bensken
ADVANCE Partner Organizations:
OCHIN (Lead)
Fenway Health
Health Choice Network
Oregon Health & Science University Hospital System
The University of Washington
GPC
Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC), a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, is a network of 14 leading medical centers in nine states committed to a shared vision of improving healthcare delivery through ongoing learning, adoption of evidence-based practices, and active research dissemination.
Principal Investigators:
James McClay
Elizabeth Chrischilles
Bradley Taylor
GPC Partner Organizations:
University of Missouri (Lead)
Allina Health
Intermountain Healthcare
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Iowa Healthcare
University of Kansas Hospital
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
UT Southwestern Medical Center
University of Utah Health
Washington University in St. Louis
INSIGHT
INSIGHT, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, is one of the largest urban clinical networks in the nation, bringing together eight top academic medical centers in New York, NY and Houston, TX.
Principal Investigators:
Rainu Kaushal
Thomas Campion
INSIGHT Partner Site Organizations:
Weill Cornell Medicine (Lead)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Houston Methodist
Montefiore Einstein
Mount Sinai Health System
New York-Presbyterian
New York University Langone Health
Stony Brook Medicine
OneFlorida+
OneFlorida+, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, was created by aligning partners, including patients, clinicians, health systems, researchers, payers of third-party claims, and state agencies in Florida, to provide an enduring infrastructure for interventional and observational studies within all of Florida’s 67 counties. OneFlorida+ has since expanded to parts of Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, California and Minnesota to capture a wide patient-population and allow for a robust centralized data trust across many academic centers, partners and agencies.
Principal Investigators:
Betsy Shenkman
Mei Liu
OneFlorida+ Partner Organizations:
University of Florida and University of Florida Health (Lead)
AdventHealth Orlando
Bond Community Health Center, Inc.
Emory University
Florida Medicaid
Jackson Health System
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (NCH)
Orlando Health
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare and Capital Health Plan
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
University of California, Irvine
University of Miami and UHealth
University of Minnesota
University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital
PaTH
PaTH, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, has a mission to utilize patient-empowered research to answer critical questions and enable more informed health decisions, including: linking EHR data across health care systems while ensuring patient privacy; engaging patients and clinicians to identify critical research questions and participate in research; and developing convenient survey methods to let patients share their perspectives on health topics with their health care teams.
Principal Investigators:
Kathleen McTigue
Michael Becich
PaTH Partner Organizations:
University of Pittsburgh (Lead)
Boston Medical Center
Geisinger
Johns Hopkins University
Ohio State University
Rush University Medical Center
Temple University
University of Michigan
PEDSnet
Across its founding institutions, PEDSnet, a pediatric PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, has created a longitudinal data resource that dates back to 2009, cutting across all pediatric diseases, and including all pediatric specialties.
Principal Investigators:
Christopher Forrest
Charles Bailey
PEDSnet Partner Organizations:
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Lead)
Children’s National Hospital
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Colorado Children’s Hospital
Lurie Children’s Hospital
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Nemours Children's Health
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Stanford Children's Health
Texas Children’s Hospital
REACHnet
REACHnet, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, includes electronic health record data for nearly 5 million patients (2023 data) from partner health systems in Louisiana, Texas and California. Its mission is to enable the conduct of multi-site research with enhanced efficiency in real-world healthcare delivery systems. REACHnet offers linkage with claims data through partnerships with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Humana, and Louisiana Medicaid.
Principal Investigators:
Thomas Carton
Beth Nauman
REACHnet Partner Organizations:
Louisiana Public Health Institute (Lead)
Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH)
DHR Health Institute for Research and Development
LCMC Health
Ochsner Health
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport
Sutter Health
Tulane Medical Center
University of California, San Francisco
STAR
Science, Technology and Research (STAR), a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, includes an array of academic and community locations across Vanderbilt, Medical University of South Carolina, Meharry Medical College, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Essentia Health, and Mayo Clinic with EHR data on millions of patients. The network supports real-world research, pragmatic clinical trials, and other research.
Principal Investigators:
Russell Rothman
Peter Embi
STAR Partner Organizations:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Lead)
Duke University
Essentia Health
Mayo Clinic
Medical University of South Carolina
Meharry Medical College
Stanford University School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wake Forest University School of Medicine