PCORnet: Building Evidence through Innovation and Collaboration
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - Wednesday, January 22, 2014
9:00 am - 5:30 pm EST
PCORI
Suite 900
1828 L Street, NW
Washington, DC
On January 21 and 22, 2014, the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution hosted the kickoff meeting, “PCORnet: Building Evidence through Innovation and Collaboration.” This event launched the development of the nation’s most ambitious and promising clinical research network aimed at delivering high quality care through patient-centered outcomes research. This was the first opportunity for PCORnet Partners to meet and begin exchanging ideas, strategies and best practices for scaling up effectiveness research focusing on interventional trials and observational studies.
Meeting sessions covered the following topics:
Introducing PCORnet, Coordinating Center and Task Forces
Reviewing network governance, deliverables and metrics for success
Identifying core network research capacities
Overcoming barriers to exchanging electronic clinical data
Improving patient engagement and enrollment in clinical trials
Building a sustainable model for collaborative patient-centered outcomes research