Research Programs

The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to collect data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health, building one of the largest health databases. By taking into account individual differences in lifestyle, environment, and biology, researchers will develop precise medicine and treatment paths catered to you. This is a collaborative consortium project in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, and Harlem Hospital.

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INSIGHT Clinical Research Network, formerly known as the NYC-CDRN, offers users a large volume of robust, high-quality patient data including clinical, claims and social determinant data, along with support services to improve and streamline research in an effort to advance patient-centered research in New York City. INSIGHT has data on over 22 million patients, with 12 million unique patients eligible for trial enrollment. The project is a unique collaboration of more than 20 medical institutions and organizations. INSIGHT is currently funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

The Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorders, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH) is a multi-institutional Center of Excellence, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Center’s mission is to develop and disseminate health economic research on healthcare utilization, health outcomes and health-related behaviors that informs substance use disorder treatment policy and HCV and HIV care of people who use substances. To increase the impact of this research, we support researchers in addressing the needs of integrated healthcare system providers and payers. The Center is a collaboration among Weill Cornell Medicine, Boston Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

The Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet) is a global Public-Private Partnership that brings together leadership, expertise and resources from health care professionals, industry, patient groups, payers, academia and government to build a national patient-centered medical device evaluation system to conduct medical device research and surveillance. MDEpiNet’s main activities include:

1. Conducting studies to better understand how devices perform in the real-world.
2. Developing methodologies to support the use and creation of real world evidence.
3. Building strategically Coordinated Registry Networks (CRN) to advance the collection and use of real-world data.
4. Collaborating with NESTcc to link CRNs with other data partner networks.

 MDEpiNet envisions a future with more efficient medical device studies and greater patient, clinician and public trust in medical devices.

The goal of The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership (CPPL) is to help create conditions that enable physicians – and the organizations where they work – to improve the health of individual patients and of the U.S. population while helping to constrain the growth of health care costs.  The Center pursues this goal by conducting and disseminating empirical research and by writing conceptual articles aimed at clarifying key issues and at informing public policies as well as the private policies created by health care organizations.

CPPL is particularly interested in the health of disadvantaged populations, in intended and unintended consequences of financial and nonfinancial incentives for physicians and provider organizations, in issues related to the acquisition and consolidation of provider organizations, in outpatient care, in post-acute care, in public and private policies likely to support physician professionalism, in physician leadership, and in comparative effectiveness research on the health care delivery system: what types of organizations, given what types of incentives, are most likely to improve the health of their population of patients?

The Center is made possible by a grant from The Physicians Foundation, a non-profit organization seeking to empower physicians to lead in the delivery of high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare, and contributions by Weill Cornell Medicine, one of the top-ranked clinical and medical research centers in the U.S.

Pediatric Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System (PELHS) collects administrative and clinical data entered at the point of care, aggregates and analyzes the data across multiple sites, then regularly reports findings back to sites to continuously improve care. Due to the large number of individuals with epilepsy, the heterogeneity of the epilepsies, and the diversity of advocacy groups for common and rare epilepsies, PELHS offers novel opportunities to the LHS design.  

Mission

Reduce seizures and their consequences for children with epilepsy through cycles of health data collection and analysis, dissemination of new evidence and practice change.

Vision

All children with epilepsy receive timely and optimal care according to standards that are continuously improved.

PELHS Areas of Improvement

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