Services: Front Door Your first step

The OneFlorida+ Front Door is your access point for using the network’s infrastructure.

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From this page, researchers can submit a prep-to-research data query, which helps them identify the size of patient populations in the network available for studies, formulate hypotheses and identify trends within targeted populations, or apply to use the OneFlorida+ research infrastructure, including the research network and more. Writing a grant proposal? Please visit our Funding Citations page to ensure you’re appropriately including OneFlorida+ and its associated funding organizations in your grant submissions.

Where to begin?

If you are interested in using the OneFlorida+ network or data but not sure where to begin, Schedule a Consultation with the Front Door team to discuss your needs.

Front Door Process

After Scheduling a Consultation, completing a Prep-to-Research Data Query or submitting a Research Infrastructure Utilization Application the next step will be to meet with the OneFlorida+ Front Door team who will discuss your needs and walk through next steps for your project. The general front door process is as follows:

  1. Meet with the Front Door team
  2. Schedule a presentation to the OneFlorida+ Executive Committee (as needed)
  3. Work with Front Door team to develop queries (as needed)
  4. Receive Study Approval from the Executive Committee
  5. Front Door team provides a Letter of Support, and Budget/Invoice for the project

Next Steps after Receiving Funding

Once you receive funding, please email the Front Door team at  OneFloridaOperations@health.ufl.edu. At this meeting, the team will review the components of your study, budget requirements, timelines, expectations, etc.

It is recommended that you request a study implementation meeting within one week of receiving your Notice of Award (NOA) or as soon as start dates are identified, if prior to the NOA, to ensure a timely study launch within the network. In addition, the OneFlorida+ Front Door always appreciates interim updates regarding your funding status to appropriately allocate resources.

Send any grant updates to OneFloridaOperations@health.ufl.edu.

CTSI

Coodinating partner

The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) seeks to speed the translation of scientific discoveries into improved health by strengthening the university’s ability to conduct clinical and translational research.

The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

Research Services

The OneFlorida+ Coordinating Center, housed at the UF Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and in partnership with the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, facilitates efforts across the network’s infrastructure to ensure an integrated, seamless experience for investigators. The benefit of using the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network infrastructure involves the availability of a wide array of research resources, including but not limited to:

Data Related Support

  • Support to identify eligible patient populations and/or clinical practices
  • OneFlorida+ Data Trust with extensive health care information for cohort discovery, study feasibility, study data collection, and observational studies
  • Information technology resources
  • Data analytics warehouse
  • Biorepository capability, available through the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Study Implementation Support

  • Participant recruitment services, including the Consent2Share process and in-person recruitment
  • Partnerships with clinical champions to facilitate practice recruitment
  • Trained practice research facilitators to support study implementation and patient recruitment

Stakeholder Engagement

At the University of Florida, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Clinical Community Scientist Program engages community members as partners with scientists and clinicians in the research process. Patients with lived experience and families of individuals with particular healthcare issues collaborate throughout the entire research endeavor, including identifying study topics, study design, recruitment, retention, interpretation of the findings, and information dissemination.

At the University of Miami, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute is expanding the way research reaches patients. With the launch of the Consent-To-Contact Initiative, patients can take advantage of a new service that creates opportunities for them to participate in the latest clinical studies that are right for them. They do so by authorizing their consent to be contacted about research during point of care at a University of Miami Health System (UHealth) clinic.

To explore how to incorporate stakeholders into your study, contact the Coordinating Center at OneFloridaOperations@health.ufl.edu.