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With dedicated funding from Intel’s $50 million Pandemic Response Technology Initiative, OCHIN rapidly scaled to support 20,000 concurrent network users in the early months as the novel coronavirus spread.

The results are in from a multi-year OCHIN study designed to deepen our understanding of how social complexity influences patient health outcomes.

The FCC announced that OCHIN’s two broadband consortia each received $1 million in funding through the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program to help expand telehealth programs in response to the pandemic.

OCHIN stands in solidarity with the African American community. Black lives matter and we must all do more to protect them.

Public Health Seattle & King County was an early responder to the COVID-19 pandemic, located at the heart of one of our nation’s first coronavirus hot spots. Since the first positive case was reported in Washington, the health department has leveraged its diverse communications channels and worked with OCHIN to rapidly deploy new tools forRead more

One Community Health has provided innovative health care to rural patients in the Columbia River Gorge, between Oregon and Washington, for more than 30 years. When COVID-19 struck, the health center partnered with OCHIN to rapidly transform its in-person care delivery model to virtual care, in order to keep its patients and providers safe duringRead more

MEDIA ADVISORY Date: March 27, 2020 Contact: Jennifer Stoll, 503-720-9882, stollj@ochin.org Portland, OR— OCHIN strongly supports the long-term updates that were made to 42 CFR Part 2 as part of the larger CARES Act that Congress passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The new rule closes an important gap in our nation’s health careRead more

Epic and OCHIN created mobile app to support COVID-19 screening and triage care in emergency settings nationwide Seattle, WA—A new mobile electronic health record (EHR) app that enables patient screening and triage outside of a typical health care setting is ready to deploy in Washington state. Created by EHR developer Epic in partnership with OCHIN,Read more

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic mounts, OCHIN is committed to limiting its spread in our communities, even as we work around the clock to support providers on the frontlines with new tools and resources to respond to this serious public health crisis. Here at OCHIN, we have taken several operational measures to slow theRead more

OCHIN researchers are analyzing the wealth of data available via the ADVANCE Collaborative to improve clinical screening and treatment for infectious diseases, like tuberculosis. In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), OCHIN is taking part in a project using machine learning toRead more