Healthix supports researchers with deidentified and identifiable data (with consent) from its real time, clinical data repository that includes over 17 million unique lives spanning over 10 years.
Please contact research@healthix.org with any requests or questions.
Healthix Research Governance
Researchers employed by a Healthix participant or a not-for-profit organization with an aligned mission to Healthix’s mission are eligible to submit an application for approval. The Healthix Research Committee, designated by the Healthix Board, will review applications and approve or deny in accordance with Healthix Policy.
How to Submit a Research Proposal
Step 1 – Meet Healthix Research Requirements – a research proposal:
- Must be approved by an IRB or granted an IRB waiver
- Must Not be designed to generate market intelligence, competitive advantage, commercial promotion, or other non-Research purposes
- Must Not compromise the reputation of Healthix or any of our Participants
- Must Comply with Healthix Policy, including sections 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8
Step 2 – Complete a Research Application, including required research data elements
Step 3 – Submit IRB Approval Letter and Completed Research Application to research@healthix.org
Healthix Research Committee
Gabriel Cohen, MD – Committee Chair
CMIO for Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals
Attending Physician at Bellevue Hospital Center
Andrea Cassells, MPH
Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Clinical Directors Network
Peter Gordon, MD
Medical Director, Comprehensive Health Program, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Professor of Medicine at Columbia University’s School of Physicians and Surgeons
HIV/HCV Specialist and Primary Care Provider within the Designated AIDS Center at New York-Presbyterian
Jyotishman Pathak, PhD
Professor of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Medical Informatics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
Vice Chair, Entrepreneurship, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College
Virginia “Ginny” Shubert
Co-Founder of Housing Works Community Healthcare
Jonathan Tobin, PhD
President/CEO, Clinical Directors Network
Co-Director for Community-Engaged Research, The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Selected Publications Using Healthix Data
| Title | Authors | Year |
| Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients | Doran, Welch, et al. | 2026 |
| Trends in Triple-Site Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in New York City: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Health Information Exchange Data | Pathela, Nash, et al. | 2026 |
| Enhanced Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections to Foster a Learning Public Health System | Nieva, Elhadad, et al. | 2025 |
| Community-associated Carbapenem-Resistant Organism Case Investigations in New York City | Srinivasan, et al. | 2025 |
| Boost your health (Refuerza tu Salud): Design of a randomized controlled trial of a community health worker intervention to reduce inequities in COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations | Gwynn, et al. | 2025 |
| Validating a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure to Improve Emergency Department Asthma Care: Protocol for an Observational Study | Friedman, et al. | 2025 |
| Preventing "tipping points" in high comorbidity patients: A lifeline from health coaches – rationale, design and methods | Federman, et al. | 2025 |
| Scalable incident detection via natural language processing and probabilistic language models | Ramanathan, et al. | 2025 |
| A case control study on serum lipid parameters in Drug-naive Major Depressive Disorder Patients in comparison to normal subjects | Pillai, et al. | 2025 |
| Appropriately Matching Transport Care Units to Patients in Interhospital Transport Care: Implementation Study | Baxter, et al. | 2024 |
| Enabling a Learning Public Health System: Enhanced Surveillance of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections | Nieva, Elhadad, et al. | 2024 |
| Evaluating Gaps in Mental and Non-Mental Services Utilization for Individuals with and without a Severe Mental Illness across New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Xiao, Pathak, et al. | 2024 |
| Examining individual- versus population-level social determinants of health in a cluster randomized trial of health coaches for patients with multiple chronic conditions | Federman, et al. | 2024 |
| Precision HER2: a comprehensive AI system for accurate and consistent evaluation of HER2 expression in invasive breast cancer | Larroque, Mohan, et al | 2024 |
| Enabling a Learning Public Health System: Enhanced Surveillance of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections | Nieva, Elhadad, et al | 2024 |
| Integrating a Resilience Framework to Assess Implementation of a Novel HIV Care Re-Engagement Model in NYC | McKay, et al. | 2023 |
| Scaling up delivery of HIV services in Africa through harnessing trends across global emerging innovations | El-Sadr, et al. | 2023 |
| Study protocol for a multisite randomized controlled trial of a peer navigator intervention for emergency department patients with nonfatal opioid overdose | Doran, et al. | 2023 |
| Research Priorities for Interventions to Address Health Disparities in Lung Nodule Management: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement | Velcheti, Legg, et al | 2023 |
| Using a Health Information Exchange to Characterize Changes in HIV Viral Load Suppression and Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City | Tucker, Zucker, et al | 2023 |
| Trends in Healthcare Service Disruptions and Associations with COVID-19 Outcomes among Patients with SMI vs. Non-SMI during COVID-19 | Thiruvallaruru, Xiao, et al | 2023 |
| Trends in psychiatric diagnoses by COVID-19 infection and hospitalization among patients with and without recent clinical psychiatric diagnoses in New York city from March 2020 to August 2021 | Xiao, Pathak, et al | 2022 |
| Use and Visualization of Electronic Health Record Data to Advance Public Health | Elhadad, et al. | 2021 |
| Interrogating an ICD-coded electronic health records database to characterize the epidemiology of prosopagnosia | Griffin, et al. | 2020 |
| Perceptions of Radiologists and Emergency Medicine Providers Regarding the Quality, Value, and Challenges of Outside Image Sharing in the Emergency Department Setting | Doshi, et al. | 2020 |
| Organizational characteristics and perceptions of clinical event notification services in healthcare settings: a study of health information exchange | Unertl, et al. | 2020 |
| Implementation of data access and use procedures in clinical data warehouses. A systematic review of literature and publicly available policies | Haneuse, et al. | 2020 |
| Patients' Use of Multiple Hospitals in a Major US City: Implications for Population Management | Kern, Kaushal, et al | 2017 |
| Patient crossover and potentially avoidable repeat computed tomography exams across a health information exchange | Slovis, Shapiro, et ql | 2017 |
| Enhancing a Geriatric Emergency Department Care Coordination Intervention Using Automated Health Information Exchange-Based Clinical Event Notifications | Gutteridge, Shapiro, et al | 2014 |
