Miami Children’s Health System (MCHS) has joined the University of Florida (UF), University of Miami and Florida State University as well as health care systems, health plans, providers and patients to support patient-centered healthcare research throughout Florida and the nation. The statewide partnership, called the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium, is one of the 13 research collaboratives throughout the U.S. to have joined the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, also known as PCORnet. The Florida network was approved for a three-year, $7.9 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support this research initiative.
PCORnet links researchers, patient communities, clinicians and health systems in research partnerships that involve large volumes of health data. The partnership will enable researchers nationwide to conduct clinical research more quickly and less expensively than is now possible and will ensure that research focuses on the outcomes that matter most to patients and their caregivers. These 13 clinical data research networks, which includes the Miami Children’s Research Institute on the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital campus as part of OneFlorida, are working together to accelerate the translation of promising research findings to improve patient care.
