Clinical Collaboration

OCHIN is a network of a wide variety of organizations across seven geographically dispersed states. The clinical leaders from each organization – OCHIN’s Clinical Oversight Group – routinely comes together to share best practices and learn from each other, engage in clinical research opportunities, and leverage their collective best thinking around the future of health care and what we need to do today to be ready for tomorrow.

Ongoing clinical collaboration is essential to the success of the OCHIN network. It informs clinical system changes and new vendor design specifications, guides the formation of research questions and scientific inquiry, and drives the deployment of best practices specifically designed to meet the myriad needs of practices working to improve care delivery and health outcomes. Collaboration ranges from small, clinical, and topic-specific workgroups (e.g., prevention, chronic diseases, and obstetrics) to those focused more broadly on practice-based research, continuous development of EHR clinical content, and enhanced functionality required to support large clinical quality improvement.

There is tremendous benefit to having clinical leaders across disparate organizations’ collaborate and learn from each other. All voices and perspectives come together to leverage the best thinking, intellectual capital, and common needs across the smallest of frontier organizations to the larger more sophisticated county organizations. 

At OCHIN, everyone benefits from clinical collaboration.