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A young girl with diabetes learns how to test her blood sugar. As concerns grow about the rising incidence of diabetes in children and teenagers nationwide, a team of OneFlorida researchers is developing a quicker, more accurate and cost-effective way to track affected youths in Florida by leveraging electronic health…
OneFlorida Citizen Scientist Nadine Zemon was selected to serve as a patient representative on the PCORnet Steering Committee. Over the past five years Zemon has served as a community member citizen scientist (CS) with the UF Clinical & Translational Science Institute (UF CTSI) and the OneFlorida clinical data research network.
As COVID-19 continues to ravage the country and strain our health systems, the need for a collaborative approach to clinical research that can be conducted at an accelerated pace has never been greater. Opportunities abound: Some sponsors have begun offering COVID-19-focused supplements to existing awards. Individual researchers or teams…
OneFlorida is among the first PCORnet CRNs to begin enrolling health care workers in the Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes (HERO) Registry. The registry invites U.S. health care workers to join this large, national clinical research community and share their clinical and life experiences in order to understand…
David M. Janicke, Ph.D., ABPP, will serve as OneFlorida site principal investigator for MedWeight, a national study that will examine how long-term use of certain prescription medications influences weight, risk for diabetes, and cholesterol. The 4-year study, led by Jason Block, M.D., MPH, at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and…
A team led by OneFlorida researcher Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., will begin targeting tobacco prevention programs at youth in rural North Florida, who have some of the highest electronic vaping rates in the state. “In rural communities throughout North Florida and the Florida Panhandle, 25 percent of youth ages 11-17…
The PCORnet Blood Pressure Control Laboratory is officially open for business. A team led by Mark J. Pletcher, M.D., MPH and OneFlorida researcher Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, Pharm.D., M.S., published a design and methods paper describing the laboratory and its operations in the March 2020 issue of Circulation. The laboratory…
Stakeholder engagement is key to the successful implementation of predictive analytic tools in clinical settings, according to a report by a research team from Cornell Weill Medicine in New York and the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium. The team developed a tool that uses electronic health record data to help identify…
