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KUMC receives PCORI award to lead Greater Plains Collaborative

The ​Greater Plains Collaborative award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) provides $7 million for a project that will establish a new network of nine medical centers in seven states committed to building a data set from electronic medical records that will be used to contribute to new research in the fields of breast cancer, obesity and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease).

The principal investigator of the project is Russ Waitman, director of medical informatics at KU Medical Center. The HERON technology developed by the medical informatics team plays a prominent role.

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