The INSIGHT Clinical Research Network (CRN), a database of more than 23 million patient health records, has received $13.5 million in renewed funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
The renewed funding will support efforts to lead and conduct research of national scope over the next four years, increasing capacity for observational studies, retrospective studies, clinical trials, machine learning and more. Additionally, the funding will foster new collaborations and enable investigators to securely pool patient data, upholding the highest level of patient confidentiality, to support research on a specific topic. With this support, researchers can investigate patient-centered ways to understand and treat conditions including depression, diabetes, breast cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
INSIGHT CRN is one of the largest urban clinical networks in the nation, bringing together eight academic centers in New York City and its metropolitan area, as well as Houston, Texas. Led by a team at Weill Cornell Medicine, INSIGHT’s data contributing collaborators include Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Montefiore Health System, Mount Sinai Health System, NewYork-Presbyterian, NYU Langone Health, Houston Methodist and most recently Stony Brook Medicine, which will add approximately 1.3 million patient records to the database.
