1. DARTNet:
A Research and Learning
Collaborative
Turner White
President of the Board
DARTNet Institute

2. Who is DARTNet?
 Not-for-profit Research Institute
o 12 PBRN partners
o 11 Academic partners
o American Academy of Family Physicians
o American Academy of Pediatrics
o Multiple CTSAs
o Several private partners

3. What is DARTNet?
 DARTNet is a collaboration of Practice-based
Research Networks utilizing
electronic health record data, claims data
and patient reported outcome data from
multiple organizations
oFacilitates data collection/ aggregation using
multiple constructs
 EHR data
 Point of care from office staff/providers/patients
 Ancillary data – fulfillment data, claims data,
patient reported outcomes

4. DARTNet’s Mission
 To improve health and
healthcare through data driven
practice-based inquiry and
collaborative learning

5. What Does DARTNet Offer?
 Extraction, Transformation and Loading
(ETL) Software for ~20 different EHRs
 Clinical decision support, population
management and PRO collection
systems
 Data standardization and QI reporting
including MU-2

6. Classic DARTNet Approach
 Step 1 - Capture,
de-identify, code,
standardize EHR and
other data
 Step 2 – Use/
enhance data for QI
(CDS, reports, learning
community)
 Step 3 – Extract
data for research
Step 1
Federated EHR Data
Step 2
Clinical Quality Improvement
Step 3
Comparative Effectiveness
Research

7. Value Added for Clinical Partners
 Data for QI activities
 Learning Community
 Meaningful Use Activities
 Clinical Decision Support/ Registry
functionality
 Pay for work already done (pay for data)
 Research/QI Options for participants

8. Interactive Performance
Report System

9. Practice Performance Reports
Report 1: Organizations / Patient Groups
Shows % of patients meeting criteria by Organization

10. Practice Performance Reports
Click on your organization to see your trend over time for a specific measure.
Your Organization
trended over time
Your Organization
compared to others
in dataset for
specific measure

11. Practice Performance Reports
Click your Organization’s color / name in the legend on the right to highlight
individual care site bars.
Choose your
Organization here

12. Growing Body of Reports
 Currently ~ 800 reports available
o4 active patient cohorts
oMultiple clinical phenotypes
oMultiple numerator definitions
 Adding provider level reports focused on
missed opportunities
 Adding specialty reports
 Data level queries under consideration

13. Ways to Participate
 Direct Membership
 Services & Contracting
 Regional Data Networks
 Individual Clinician Practices
 Colleges of Medicine
 Institutions
 Clinical Researchers
 Philanthropy

14. Who Can Participate:?
 Data Providers (healthcare organizations
and individual clinician practices)
 Collaborators (regional networks,
Academic institutions, clinical researchers)
 Funders (philanthropists, industry,
government, foundations, sponsors)
 Purchasers of services and data

15. Services and Contracting
 Manage access to study databases
 Contract for access to terminologies
oOMOP – includes SNOMED, ICD-9, LOINC, CPT,
First Data Bank and others
 OMOP laboratory – shared code
 Contract of access to clinical instruments
 Manage joint grant activities
 Provide vehicle for long term fiscal
management

16. Advantages
 Seamless integration of disparate multi-source
data into actionable information to
support and optimize decision-making
 Multiple levels of bi-directional
communications between and among
clinicians, researchers, patients and
networks
 Robust integrated collaborative of the
premier primary care research networks
in the U.S.

17. Advantages
 Engine and backbone for specialty and
trans-disciplinary research
 Rapid bench to real world practice
dissemination and implementation
 Provides valuable data for community
health planning

18. For more information:
Wilson Pace, MD
DARTNet Institute, CEO
Denver, CO
Wilson.pace@DARTNet.info
Debbie Graham, MSPH
DARTNet Institute, COO
Wilmette, IL
Debbie.Graham@DARTNet.info