HealthCore - Finding evidence and truth at the core of healthcare.

Government

You need to be confident that clinical research is conducted with scientific rigor for challenges that are not easily addressed. Our multidisciplinary team combines depth in medical science, broad understanding of research methods, and digital research solutions to meet design, recruitment and implementation with efficiency and excellence.

WHAT WE DO

Clinical Research

Clinical research requires collaboration, commitment to rigor, and confidence in the data—and always putting patients first. It also requires well-coordinated, innovative thinking to drive a clinical trial to success. It’s what we do.

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Program Evaluation

Whether it is a clinical treatment strategy or a diagnostic tool to deliver the best disease management pathways, we provide guidance based on the established evidence, current clinical practice, and robust clinical and claims data assets to get to the answers you need.

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Comparative Effectiveness

We know it is important to compare the benefits or risks of treatment alternatives using the most scientifically rigorous research. Our experts ensure that these studies answer the right questions for consumers, clinicians, purchasers of healthcare, insurers, and policy makers.

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Digital Research Solutions

Whether developing and evaluating evidence-based programs or determining the best approach to recruit and retain study participants, we start and end with understanding who we’re helping. From there we build award-winning, evidence-based products to meet your needs.

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OUR RESEARCH POSITION

You seek innovative research to expand the evidence base necessary to provide quality care and prevent disease. Innovative research must also be met with the highest standards of scientific rigor. Our teams have long-standing expertise conducting research under these important rules of scientific conduct.

With that as our baseline, we:

Bring a depth of knowledge in therapeutic areas across the life course,
Employ a broad range of methodologies to provide the right fit for any study, and
Develop rich data assets from both prospective patient and site based research and retrospective claims, patient and other health data.

These combined strengths fuel our ability to design, conduct, and analyze research studies in ways others can’t. In combination, we help provide the fundamental knowledge that can improve health and reduce the burden of illness.

Highlights

Relationships

Our experienced scientists are committed to research at the highest level of scientific rigor.

Expertise

We build the right team to deliver study outcomes employing the most appropriate methods.

Unparalleled Data

Our expertise enables us to design, conduct and analyze complex data in ways others can’t.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Government

Moving Research to Reality

Government

A Leader in Pediatric Research for 30 Years

Since its founding, our clinical research team has been deeply involved in the long-standing effort to improve these figures by conducting, or collaborating on, research in children and infants.

Government

PTSD Clinicians Exchange: Improving Adoption of Technology-based Resources

Our Digital team has been a proud partner of the VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) on several projects which built and evaluated a provider registry that will support clinicians who treat veterans and active duty military personnel with...

Government
Thought Leadership

Moving Research to Reality

Government

A Leader in Pediatric Research for 30 Years

Since its founding, our clinical research team has been deeply involved in the long-standing effort to improve these figures by conducting, or collaborating on, research in children and infants.

Government

PTSD Clinicians Exchange: Improving Adoption of Technology-based Resources

Government

Physicians Treating Patients in PCMH’s Offered Enhanced Patient Care, Even during Early Transformation

Most patient-centered medical homes studies are limited to measuring whether patients have their cholesterol levels taken, receive their HbA1c testing, and reporting their values. HealthCore went beyond these to measure whether patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease had better health...

What We Do for Government Digital Research Solutions for Government

Fundamental to developing and evaluating evidence-based products and programs, we start and end with understanding who we’re helping, and how. Establishing a clear understanding of the current evidence and our user population ensures that we can deliver the right tools to solve the right problem.

Often programs are built to improve health from the top down – designing and developing programming without involving the community these programs intend to target. This can lead to unforeseen challenges in adoption or implementation. As an award-winning producer of health education products for providers, patients, and general consumers of health information, we can deliver best-in-class programs to meet your needs. Our unique, complementary expertise in health research, digital strategy, and design enhances the quality, efficiency, and impact of evidence-based programs you require.

Meeting the Need

Meeting the needs of the audience is our goal. Our team has deep expertise in conducting participatory program development activities to help make sure your program meets your goal. By determining and systematically engaging all key stakeholders throughout the development process, we establish feasibility, usability, and acceptability at each step. Our digital solutions researchers are well-versed in formative research methods, with strong analytic competencies. This expertise combined with our strong partnerships in healthcare and the local communities enables us to efficiently gain multiple perspectives from clinical experts, target audiences, and other key stakeholders. By integrating our team early in the design stage, we can help you avoid costly re-designs at the implementation stage.

How do we deliver?

As experts at interpreting and integrating both qualitative and quantitative research findings, we provide meaningful program design and adaptation to meet your needs by:

Employing a participatory research approach at the program development and adaptation phases of your study.
Delivering qualitative and mixed methods analysis research to get underneath more general assessments.
Providing translation and adaptation of evidence-based programs to appropriate digital approaches.
Conducting needs assessments, feasibility, and usability testing to provide direction on the right path for your program.
Conducting preliminary pilot testing of programs to inform development for effective resource investment.

CAPABILITIES

Project Management

Helping deliver full service project management under the supervision of formally trained PMs who have hands-on experience running prospective and retrospective research studies. Our project managers are the primary point of contact for our clients, and our collaborative teams are built to the size, scope, and duration of each project to deliver study needs within the study requirements.

Literature Reviews

Establishing the current evidence by conducting searches of the published peer-reviewed literature and following procedures consistent with Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) guidelines. Through a systematic process we identify, appraise, collect, and describe the most current data in a systematic manner, summarized in a full report of key findings to provide background support for your study or submission.

Data Management

Working with high-quality and well-organized data are prerequisites to rapid and reliable hypothesis testing. With an extensive background in large-scale and long-term studies, and management of claims data, we offer clients unparalleled data management services. Our data managers work collaboratively within the project teams, and have a keen understanding that the data they manage are more than just numbers.

Media Campaigns

Working to translate complicated medical information to study sites, patients, providers, and healthcare decision makers. Our team works regularly with physicians, scientists, researchers, patients, and consumers to connect the dots between technology-based strategies and scientific knowledge. We deliver solutions across the spectrum of media, always appropriate to the audience we are reaching.

Statistical Design and Analysis

Helping to deliver reliable, thoughtful study designs based on the highest standards of accuracy and scientific rigor for confident hypothesis testing on-time and within budget. Our statistical teams partner with scientific experts to design prospective studies and claims based data analyses. A multidisciplinary background helps to meet your study goals with a broader understanding of the populations and conditions important to your research.

Qualitative Research

Providing deeper insights for researchers and policy makers who recognize the potential of qualitative methods to enhance our understanding of health and healthcare. Qualitative methods—such as in-depth interviews and focus groups—complement quantitative approaches by capturing the complexities of “how and why” not easily understood through survey alone.

Consensus Conferences

Establishing best practices in diagnostic and treatment approaches are often difficult to achieve, with little consensus among experts. Through our broad expertise and strong relationships with key opinion leaders, we have the expertise and relationships to convene consensus conferences on the state of the science to improve dissemination of best practices and identify gaps in the field. Our team has a systematic process for coordinating consensus conferences with national and global leaders to create the space for these important conversations.

Recruitment and Retention

Collaborating to deliver strategic plans for recruitment and retention by creating a consistent, coherent message that adds value to each stakeholder group no matter where you are in your study. Our team identifies the best approach to manage relationships between participants and site coordinators, and between sites and researchers.

Survey Based Research

Delivering actionable evidence to better guide current disease management and to assist in the development of new therapeutic or biomedical technologies. Through structured, semi-structured, or cognitive interviews and focus groups, we provide access to a level of patient and clinician-reported information not found in other large-scale sources of health data including medical and pharmacy claims, paper-based and electronic medical records, and disease registries.

Patient and Provider Outreach

Establishing a comprehensive sampling frame based on provider characteristics, patient eligibility status, prescription fills, and diagnoses or procedure codes from medical claims and laboratory test results. Our team of experts has deep familiarity with an extensive administrative claims repository to facilitate complex research designs. We are uniquely able to connect clinical and claims data and reach back to physicians and patients within these samples in ways others cannot.

Research Instruments

We have developed and validated several high quality research instruments, including the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE). The PASE is an easily administered and scored research instrument that measures the level of physical activity in individuals aged 65 years or older. To learn more, or to purchase, please contact: Media@HealthCore.com

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