ADVANCE stands for: Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network.
ADVANCE aims to:
- Integrate outpatient, hospital, and community-level data into a single data management system
- Expand efforts to engage patients and clinicians who contribute to the design, implementation, and interpretation of comparative effectiveness research
- Develop electronic systems for recruiting study participants and collecting patient-reported data
- Strengthen the infrastructure of our community academic partnerships to support patient-centered outcomes research, and support Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to become learning health systems
- Build the capacity of our FQHC networks to meet research regulatory requirements
ADVANCE partners include:
- OCHIN, Inc.
- Health Choice Network, Inc.
- Fenway Health
- Oregon Health and Science University Department of Family Medicine
ADVANCE has the largest clinical data set on the safety net population in the nation. Our data includes patients in both Medicaid and non-Medicaid expansion states and represents a large, diverse patient poplation particularly with regard to race and ethnicity. ADVANCE also includes a large portion of patients in poverty. For more information visit our ADVANCE Data page.
