The WPRN is a collaborative group of over 80 primary care practices in the five-state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) committed to research and practice improvement. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of patients in their communities through the conduct of collaborative research that informs and enhances primary care clinical practice. The WPRN’s diversity of geography and practice type allows it to reach many rural and underserved populations. WPRN Data QUEST practices are located in rural and urban Idaho and Washington State.

WPRN Data QUEST clinic characteristics:
• Community Health Centers and Rural Health Centers
• Clinics range from less than 6,000 to 55,000 patient visits/year
• Clinics are in towns and cities of varying sizes, with populations of smaller than 1,000 to over 200,000.

The DARTNet Institute is a rapidly growing collaboration of practice-based research networks that are building a national collection of data from electronic health records, claims, and patient-reported outcomes. The networks blend quality improvement, effectiveness, and translational research with a data-driven learning system. The learning system includes advanced performance measures and assistance with the development and deployment of clinical decision support systems. The WPRN is a close collaborator with the DARTNet Institute and can help facilitate research projects across the sister networks to allow for much broader national representation and diversity in populations needed to drive innovative health discovery.

 

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The Institute of Translational Health Sciences offers resources that increase the speed at which scientific discoveries can be translated into treatments and clinical practices that improve health outcomes for patients and communities. More than 6,500 researchers from over 220 different institutions across the five-state WWAMI region have collaborated with ITHS to attract grant funding, build their research teams, develop research tools, move research projects forward, and engage with patients and the community. Learn more at www.iths.org.

 

 

The Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington has a distinguished history of offering medical education and conducting research throughout Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (the WWAMI states). The Department provides leadership for core curriculum in the School of Medicine and is widely recognized for its research and academic programs in rural communities, including its support for the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network. The Department includes over 100 regular faculty members, 140 paid clinical faculty, and more than 1,200 WWAMI courtesy clinical faculty across the five-state region, along with over 30 adjunct or affiliate faculty and 30 emeritus faculty. Clinical faculty practice across multiple UW Medicine sites, including UWMC Montlake, UWMC Northwest, Harborview Medical Center, UW Neighborhood Clinics, and the UWMC Stadium Clinic. With this broad and diverse faculty footprint, the Department is among the largest and most comprehensive family medicine departments in the country.