The HMO Research Network (HMORN) is a consortium of 16 health care delivery organizations (health maintenance organizations) with integrated research divisions. Formed in 1995, the HMORN’s goal is to improve health and transform health care

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 practice through a broad spectrum of population-based research studies. The HMORN research portfolio includes a wide variety of health care topics including

• Behavioral and mental health
• Biostatistics
  Biostatistics
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• Cancer
  Cancer
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• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Epidemiology
  Epidemiology
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• Genomic and pharmacogenomic research
• Health informatics
  Health informatics
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• Health services
• Health economics
  Health economics
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• Infectious and chronic disease surveillance
• Organizational behavior
• Pharmacoepidemiology
  Pharmacoepidemiology
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• Pharmacoeconomics
• Primary and secondary prevention
• Organization, financing and delivery of health care
• Reducing health disparities
• Cardiovascular disease
• Mental health

As of May 2011, HMORN members include

• Geisinger Health System Center for Health Research & Rural Advocacy
• Group Health Research Institute
  Group Health Research Institute
  Group Health Research Institute , formerly known as Group Health Center for Health Studies, is a non-proprietary, public-domain research institution within Group Health Cooperative...
  
  
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
• HealthPartners Research Foundation
• Henry Ford Health System–Health Alliance Plan
• Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research
• Kaiser Permanente Georgia The Center for Health Research–Southeast
• Kaiser Permanente Hawaii The Center for Health Research–Hawaii
• Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
• Kaiser Permanente Northwest The Center for Health Research–Northwest
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation
• Lovelace Health System Lovelace Clinic Foundation
• Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research http://www.maccabi-research.org/
• Marshfield Clinic
  Marshfield Clinic
  Marshfield Clinic is a health care system in northern, central and western Wisconsin, with 2 hospitals and 52 community care centers as of June, 2010. It was founded in 1916 by six local physicians: K.W. Doege, William Hipke, Victor Mason, Walter G. Sexton, H.H. Milbee, and Roy P...
  
   / Security Health Plan of Wisconsin
  Security Health Plan of Wisconsin
  Security Health Plan of Wisconsin is a health plan in Wisconsin, USA. It was established in 1986 as an outgrowth of the Greater Marshfield Community Health Plan, which began in 1971 as one of the earliest HMOs in USA.-External links:*...
  
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Fallon Community Health Plan, Fallon Foundation, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Meyers Primary Care Institute
• Scott & White Health System Division of Research

Related Websites

The HMO Collaboratory

Cancer Research Networkhttp://www.crn.cancer.gov

Cardiovascular Research Network

HMORN Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics

Mini-Sentinel Network