Last year, Jackson Health System and the University of Miami kicked off the ONENESS in Research initiative with a joint mission:

One aspect of our joint mission is to advance research through a collaborative effort, built on a shared foundation of diverse and unique patient data and resources integral to the broader missions of UHealth and JHS. Together, as leading academic teaching hospitals and as a national model for public-private partnership, we can accelerate the discovery and delivery of groundbreaking findings to both foster industry engagement and improve the health and welfare of South Florida and beyond.

Five separate working groups have been established to realize this mission. The Clinical Research workstream is focused on evaluating the end-to-end clinical trial process (up to activation) to identify and eliminate redundancies, implement parallel processing, eliminating unnecessary handoffs and using metrics to evaluate success. Our accomplishments to date include:

• Created a Workgroup Team including representatives from JHS and UM
• Documented the current process flow for externally sponsored clinical trials
• Added a UM representative to the CRRC Committee at JHS
• Initiated a project to utilize a software solution at JHS for work management and to increase transparency
• Initiated a project to implement master rate sheets, allowing UM to create budgets on behalf of JHS
• Increased transparency to business processes
While we have made progress, there is still a lot to be done, future initiatives include:
• Evaluate and improve Data Exchange Form process
• Increase transparency into UM and JHS systems to eliminate paperwork and administrative burden
• Implement target turnaround times
• Eliminate redundant reviews

Please join me on Thursday, May 26 at 12:00 p.m. to discuss this topic further, I would love to hear from you!

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