Block Grant 90CFPC0015

The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute on Aging provided $2,340,878 under its Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to assess the long-term impact of expanded telemedicine use on dementia care. The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco will conduct a sequential mixed-methods study from 2022-2025 to characterize dementia patients' telemedicine use in Kaiser Permanente Northern California and UCSF Health primary care settings. The study will analyze...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund a study to examine the impact of telehealth use on the quality of end-of-life care for nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The $858,870 award, with a start date of September 15, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2028, will allow the researchers to: Characterize patterns of telehealth provision at the end-of-life for this patient population,...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $295,825 Project Grant (R43AG088131) to Applied Universal Dynamics, Corp to develop a smartphone-based machine learning speech enhancement system for hearing aid devices. The goal is to improve the accessibility, affordability, and acceptance of hearing aids for underserved rural and minority populations, who often face significant barriers to accessing audiology services and hearing...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), awarded a $700,000 five-year Rural Telemedicine Grant (CFDA 93.211) to I OLA Lahui, Inc., a Honolulu-based non-profit organization focused on serving Native Hawaiian communities. The grant, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029, aims to integrate behavioral health services into primary care using telehealth technologies in rural and underserved areas. I OLA Lahui,...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $141,609 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Ohio State University to develop a telehealth intervention for children with unilateral cerebral palsy. The project aims to: 1) determine if telehealth pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy (PCIMT) is effective for school-aged children, 2) compare telehealth and in-person upper extremity assessments, and 3) measure...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $150,000 to Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) to investigate the effectiveness of implementing telehealth kiosk services to address healthcare disparities among homeless populations in Virginia and the United States. The project aims to develop and deploy telehealth kiosks tailored to the unique needs and challenges faced by homeless...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $1,588,040 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to examine the use of home-based medical care (HBMC) and telemedicine among people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (PLWD) in both public (Medicare fee-for-service) and private (Medicare Advantage) plans. The study aims to evaluate the impact of HBMC and telemedicine on outcomes such as treatment for ADRD,...

The $1,050,000 five-year Rural Telemedicine Grant awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Telemedicine Grants program (CFDA 93.211) will fund the ST Thomas East End Medical Center Corporation, a non-profit healthcare organization in the U.S. Virgin Islands, to integrate behavioral health services into primary care through the use of telehealth technologies. The project aims to demonstrate how telehealth can improve healthcare service delivery and access...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $441,250 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to develop and validate a telehealth-delivered expressive language assessment tool for individuals with Down syndrome. The project aims to expand the accessibility and language capabilities of the Expressive Language Sampling-Narrative (ELS-N) procedure, which has shown promise as a psychometrically...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to 360 Empower Consulting, LLC on June 1, 2025. The grant, titled "Advancing Communication Equity for the Deaf Community through AI Sign Language Recognition and Direct Video Calling Services," aims to develop innovative technologies and interventions to improve...