Ochin, Inc.

Ochin, Inc., a Portland, Oregon–based tax-exempt nonprofit health information technology collaborative, operates as a prime recipient on federal health services research grants and as a subcontractor on health policy and clinical research awards across the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Ochin competes in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside designations and acts as a subrecipient on 64 percent of its recent awards, with only 36 percent as prime.

Ochin's core federal capability centers on electronic health record data extraction, analysis, and research delivery for community health center networks. The organization serves as the steward of the OCHIN Practice-Based Research Network, which encompasses more than 1,700 federally qualified health center clinic sites across 36 states and over 7 million patient records. Its representative work includes a $690,824 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837) awarded August 20, 2026, to conduct the ENCORE study analyzing electronic consultations for cardiovascular disease management in rural community health centers using EHR data from the national network paired with linked Medicaid claims; a $1.267 million National Cancer Institute grant (CFDA 93.393) awarded September 23, 2025, to examine associations between social risk screening, social risk factors, and cancer healthcare utilization and outcomes using EHR data from community health centers in over 40 states; a $3.690905 million National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences award (CFDA 93.113) supporting the CATALYST initiative to generate evidence on how extreme climate events impact health outcomes in community health center populations; and a $1.4601161 million National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities grant (CFDA 93.307) awarded August 15, 2026, to investigate the longitudinal relationship between housing transitions and health outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness using integrated datasets from national, state, and local sources.

Customer concentration is sharp. The CDC Pittsburgh office anchors 100 percent of Ochin's combined potential value through a single $149 million multiple-award IDIQ for the Vaccine Safety Datalink (awarded September 20, 2022, ultimate completion September 19, 2027), a collaborative CDC project with nine managed care organizations. Two delivery orders against that IDIQ total $1.7 million. The top five grantor agencies by award count—Health Resources and Services Administration (12 awards), the National Cancer Institute (12 awards), the National Institute of Mental Health (7 awards), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (6 awards), and the CDC (5 awards)—account for 44 percent of Ochin's award count; nearly all dollars reside in the VSD contract.

Recent activity shows strong grant momentum. Awards per year grew from seven in 2022 to 35 in 2024, with 13 in 2025 and 11 in 2026 (as of October 2026). Combined potential value across all 96 awards (35 prime, 61 sub) totals $151 million, with $147.9 million obligated. Only three awards totaling $1.7 million face completion within the next twenty-four months, mitigating recompete pressure. Ochin acts as prime on federal grants and as a subrecipient on health policy research; subrecipient roles span the National Institutes of Health (12 awards listed under the National Cancer Institute alone, with additional sub-awards under NIH/NIMH, NICHD, and NHLBI programs), Oregon Health & Science University, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin System, and Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. Sub-awards typically position Ochin to provide project leadership, data coordination, data extraction from the practice-based research network, and quantitative analysis under prime-grantee direction.

The organization operates three named subsidiaries: Hit Impacts LLC (for-profit limited liability company), California Telehealth Network (nonprofit), and Ohio Shared Information Services Inc. (nonprofit). Ochin's self-description positions it as "the largest HRSA-designated Health Center Controlled Network in the United States," with twenty years of operational experience serving low-income and racially and ethnically diverse patient populations, including adolescents, people experiencing homelessness, agricultural workers, and rural communities. Service Contract Inventory data is minimal—seven SCI records across FY2022–FY2025, with no invoiced revenue on SCI-reportable prime contracts and scattered FTE deliveries on sub assignments—indicating that Ochin's federal footprint is dominated by grant work rather than billable-hour service contracts.