OCHIN’s Research Department is an integral part of our clinical network’s continuous learning health system, as well as a trusted collaborator and driving force for health research nationwide.
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OCHIN’s Research Department is an integral part of our clinical network’s continuous learning health system, as well as a trusted collaborator and driving force for health research nationwide.
The Community-Engaged Research Program advances research with people and organizations in the OCHIN network to understand and address the priorities and needs of communities served by OCHIN members. OCHIN’s community includes the patients and caregivers who access health care through the community-based care organizations in our network and the clinicians and staff who care for these patients; and the health care organizations in which these providers work.
Understanding the needs of community members guides OCHIN’s infrastructure development and informs the opportunities we pursue to conduct mission-aligned health research. OCHIN’s Engagement Core supports the pathways by which we connect with our communities, including OCHIN’s Patient Engagement Panel, and operationalizes project engagement.
The Data Science and Research Analytics Program team is comprised of research analysts, biostatisticians, data scientists, and data warehouse engineers. Collectively, this team provides the quantitative data infrastructure and analytic functions to support research proposals, projects, networks, and other activities.
Our core functions include research data integration and warehousing, including the maintenance and expansion of OCHIN’s Research Data Warehouses, Cohort Discovery (web-based self-service query tool), geographic data resources, and data linkage and acquisition activities; data management, analysis, methodology, and statistical expertise; and development and maintenance of data and analytic environments.
The Implementation Science Program advances knowledge about how to support community clinics’ adoption of guideline-based care. The implementation of practice change can involve a wide range of interventions, including health information technologies for clinical decision support, optimized feedback data, and practice coaching. This program seeks to identify which approaches are most effective, feasible, acceptable, and sustainable for staff and patients in community-based primary care clinics.
The OCHIN Qualitative Core for Iterative Research and Design (OARS) is a community of researchers dedicated to the use of innovative, rigorous qualitative research methods that are respectful of OCHIN member clinics’ staff and patients. OARS researchers have deep experience designing, leading, and conducting qualitative implementation research in community-based health care settings. This team’s expertise includes qualitative methods in implementation science, realist evaluation, human-centered design, practice change, and community-engaged research.
OCHIN’s Quantitative Science Core advances health and promotes the national profile of OCHIN research by leading and partnering on the development and rigorous application of quantitative science techniques. This is accomplished by providing biostatistical and quantitative science expertise for OCHIN-led and OCHIN-partnered research projects.
The Social Policy Research Program conducts interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research to understand the impact of social policies and programs on health. OCHIN’s network of community-based primary care clinics is a unique laboratory for assessing the impact of federal and state policies; alternative methods of reimbursement and payment for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs); and policies and programs to address individual- and community-level social risk factors on patterns of health care access and outcomes.
OCHIN’s Research Development Core supports the development of scientific research proposals, building the OCHIN research portfolio through essential partnerships and collaborations within the research team and with external institutions. Through concept and proposal development, institutional research administration, and collaboration, the Research Development Core plays a pivotal role in advancing scientific research and fulfilling OCHIN’s overall mission.
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