CAPriCORN, a patient-centered outcomes and research network, is a partnership between healthcare and research institutions, patients, patient advocates, clinicians, community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-profits committed to enabling and delivering patient centered clinical research. View highlights of our work.
We connect expertise with the electronic health record data needed to answer critical health questions. The network is a truly collaborative space – we work together to ensure the integrity of our projects and the quality of our data. A Patient Community Advisory Committee (PCAC) has worked with CAPriCORN since its inception to elevate the patient voice in research.
Mission
Our mission is to develop, test, and implement clinical research in order to improve health care quality, health outcomes, and health equity for the diverse populations of Chicagoland and the surrounding states
Goals
Contributing strategic leadership, data, and/or data stewardship
Current Members:
Institution | Lead |
AllianceChicago | Fred Rachman |
Cook County Health | Keiki Hinami |
Loyola Medicine | Frances Weaver |
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago | Marc Rosenman |
Endeavor Health | Stephen Wachtel |
Northwestern Medicine* | Faraz Ahmad |
Rush University Medical Center | Raj Shah |
University of Chicago | David Meltzer |
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System | Howard Gordon |
Medical Research Analytics and Informatics Alliance | Ellen Holfels |
*Lead site; Abel Kho is the principal investigator of the network
Past Members:
Institution | Lead |
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center | Howard Gordon/ Frances Weaver |
Managing operational needs and serving as primary contacts for the network. We look forward to working with you.
Get in touch at info@capricorncdrn.org
Supporting the work of CAPriCORN
CAPriCORN’s mission is to develop, test, and implement policies and programs designed to improve health care quality, health outcomes, and health equity for the diverse populations of Chicagoland and beyond. We work closely with our Patient Community Advisory Committee (PCAC) to ensure priorities align with patient needs and goals.
Since 2014, CAPriCORN has worked to put in place the infrastructure and processes necessary to create data sets comprised of high-quality, de-duplicated patient information. CAPriCORN engages in sustainable, population-level patient-centered outcomes research.
Safeguarding data and maintaining privacy are important to the success of CAPriCORN’s work. Health data specialists, privacy and security experts, patients, and community members are involved in every step of our Front Door process that makes data available to researchers.
CAPriCORN commits to the following data principles:
If you have any questions or would like to discuss CAPriCORN’s data principles, please email us at info@capricorncdrn.org.
‐ Margie Schaps, MPH, Executive Director, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group‘Elevating the Patient Voice in Research’ provides us the opportunity to continue promoting health equity by working with patients to identify research priorities that may influence the future of health care and health outcomes.
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