Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

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Comparative Effectiveness Research Improves Outcomes, Kaiser Finds

Julie Bird | FierceHealthcare | June 10, 2013

The national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) can look to Kaiser Permanente to see how comparative effectiveness research can enhance healthcare. Read More »

Is The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Really More Industry-Centered?

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | May 31, 2013

One of the biggest reasons our health care system seems so dysfunctional is that clinicians and patients have great difficulty determining what might be the appropriate management of particular clinical problems... Read More »

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute To Invest Up To $68 Million To Develop A National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network

Press Release | The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) | April 23, 2013

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) issued two funding announcements today for up to $68 million to support development of a National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. Read More »

PCORI 'Marks Major Milestone' With 25 Research Awards

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | December 20, 2012

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved 25 awards, totaling $40.7 million over three years, to fund patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects under the first four areas of its National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda. Read More »

PCORI Announces PCORnet Partner Networks’ Pledge to Facilitate Patients’ Access to Their EHR Data

Press Release | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) | February 25, 2016

Today at the Precision Medicine Initiative Summit at the White House, Joe Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), announced an initiative to enable individuals to access data in their electronic health records (EHRs) and share it for research that could improve care for their conditions. The initiative involves a pledge by 20 Patient-Powered Research Networks (PPRNs) to help their participating patients more readily obtain information from their EHRs...

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PCORI Challenge Awards $125K To These 8 Digital Tools That Connect Patients & Researchers

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | June 4, 2013

A crowdfunding platform for research topics. A searchable database of patients looking to participate in research. These are two of the ideas that garnered prize money from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute as part of its patient-researcher “matching” challenge. Read More »

The Future of AHRQ’s Health Services Research

Michael Berkwits | The Journal of the American Medical Association | August 19, 2015

Both houses of Congress will have to resolve their differences to pass a 2016 federal budget bill, which then goes to President Obama for his signature or veto. In the meantime, AHRQ Director Richard Kronick, PhD, sat down with JAMA to talk about the agency’s work and its relationship with other federal health research entities. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation...