HMO Research Network
The HMO Research Network (HMORN) is a consortium of 18 health care delivery organizations with integrated research divisions.[1] Formed in 1994, the HMORN’s goal is to improve health and transform health care practice through a broad spectrum of population-based research studies.[2] The HMORN’s Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW) facilitates multi-center research while protecting patient privacy and proprietary health practice information.
The HMORN research portfolio includes a wide variety of health care topics including[3]
- advanced biostatistics
- behavioral & mental health
- cancer research
- comparative effectiveness research
- complementary & alternative medicine
- communication & health literacy research
- dissemination & implementation
- epidemiology
- genomic & genetic research
- health disparities research
- health informatics
- health services & health economics
- infectious & chronic disease surveillance
- patient-centered care
- pharmacoepidemiology
- pharmacoeconomics
- primary & secondary prevention
- systems change & organizational behavior
As of March 2013, HMORN members include[4]
- Essentia Health Essentia Institute of Rural Health
- Fallon Community Health Plan, Reliant Medical Group, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Meyers Primary Care Institute
- Geisinger Health System Center for Health Research
- Group Health Research Institute
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Department of Population Medicine
- HealthPartners Research Foundation
- Henry Ford Health System–Health Alliance Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research
- Kaiser Permanente Georgia The Center for Health Research–Southeast
- Kaiser Permanente Hawaii The Center for Health Research–Hawaii
- Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
- Kaiser Permanente Northwest The Center for Health Research–Northwest
- Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation
- Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research
- Marshfield Clinic / Security Health Plan of Wisconsin Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
- Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute
- Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Healthcare, Research and Education
- Scott & White Health System Division of Research