PCORnet is a national resource, funded by PCORI®, that enables insights from high-quality health data, patient partnership, and research expertise to deliver fast, trustworthy answers that advance health outcomes.
National Studies Show How the PCORnet® Infrastructure Supports Meaningful Engagement
Meaningful engagement is central to patient-centered health research but implementing it at a national scale can pose challenges—from recruiting participants and sustaining involvement, to ensuring patient perspectives shape research questions and outcomes.
PCORnet® Playbook
Researchers who partner with PCORnet® have access to unique representative health data, research expertise, and patient insights. Whether you are a new or an experienced researcher, the PCORnet® Playbook is your go-to guide for navigating the PCORnet infrastructure, tapping into expert support, and integrating patient perspectives into your research from the start.
Research Highlights Illustrate Power of PCORnet®
Learn how researchers are using PCORnet to improve patient outcomes by fueling the kind of large-scale research needed to:
- Understand how different metabolic pathways interact
- Answer key questions in cardiovascular research
- Solve challenges in nephrology research
- Explore approaches to pediatric research
PaTH
PaTH, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, has a mission to utilize patient-empowered research to answer critical questions and enable more informed health decisions, including: linking EHR data across health care systems while ensuring patient privacy; engaging patients and clinicians to identify critical research questions and participate in research; and developing convenient survey methods to let patients share their perspectives on health topics with their health care teams.
Check out PaTH's Story Booth: Patient and Caregiver Audio Stories.
Special Journal Supplement
A PCORI-sponsored supplement of the journal Medical Care looks at the scope and scale of PCORnet. The 19 peer-reviewed open-access articles demonstrate the robust scientific value of PCORnet in accelerating patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research.
Event
June 10, 2026
1 pm – 2 pm (ET)
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Tools to Speed Study Start-up
Conduct patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research more efficiently by addressing some of the most time-consuming, costly, and difficult aspects of study start-up.