WHAT IS REACHNET?
REACHnet is a partnership of health systems, academic centers, public health organizations, and the patient community that constitutes an innovative data network for conducting patient-centered research.
Our mission is to enable the conduct of multi-site research with enhanced efficiency in real-world healthcare delivery systems.
Partner Health Systems:
- Baylor Scott & White Health
- DHR Health Institute for Research & Development
- Ochsner Health
- Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport
- Sutter Health
- Tulane University
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health
- University Medical Center New Orleans
Academic Partners:
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC)
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC)
- Tulane University Schools of Medicine & Public Health
- UCSF Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute
Coordinating Center:
Patient Community:
REACHnet is one of eight Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) nationwide that constitute PCORnet®.
REACHnet contains electronic health record data for more than 18 million patients standardized to the PCORnet® Common Data Model to support pragmatic clinical research conducted under real-life practice conditions. Because a diverse patient population is served by our partner health systems, we are able to support studies that seek a highly representative sample of participants.
WHAT SERVICES DOES REACHNET OFFER?
Researchers from within and outside the network may request our services to conduct collaborative research through REACHnet.
Prep-to-research queries: Find out how many patients in our partner health systems meet your study’s inclusion criteria.
Clinical datasets for observational research: Obtain standardized data from multiple health systems for observational studies and collaborate with co-investigators from REACHnet partner health systems.
Clinical sites for prospective interventional trials: Partner with sites at REACHnet’s member health systems for clinical trials.
Regulatory: REACHnet offers a streamlined and centralized regulatory process for conducting research with multiple health systems.
Data linkage: REACHnet has partnerships with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Humana, and CVS Health to link data for research. Linkage with Medicaid and Medicare data is also possible. Geocoding for linkage with sociodemographic and environmental data is available by census tract.
Direct-to-patient messaging: Reach out to patients in REACHnet’s Health in Our Hands community about the opportunity to participate in your study; disseminate research findings to the patient community; and/or solicit patient perspectives to inform your research questions, study design, or recruitment approaches.
Patient & community engagement: Engage with community members—including patients, caregivers, and providers—to inform your study at every stage of the research process.
Clinic staff training: LPHI developed tools for effective engagement of clinic staff in implementation of clinic-based research, which often relies on their interactions with patients who are current or potential research participants.
REQUEST REACHNET SERVICES
Learn how to partner with REACHnet to conduct observational research.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Learn about current research projects being conducted in partnership with REACHnet.