Project Grant 7200AA22FA00044

This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions on primary care physician (PCP) well-being, EHR time, and patient care quality and utilization. The interventions include: 1) scribes, 2) advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and 3) AI-assisted inbox messaging support. The $1,199,999 award to Brigham...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is supporting the implementation and evaluation of a technology-based collaborative care model called RI-SPHERES. The goal is to reduce short- and long-term morbidity associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and improve preventive care attendance among postpartum patients in Rhode Island. The...

This $393,392 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at Northeastern University to develop a context-aware framework for improving the delivery and effectiveness of digital health interventions on personal computing devices like smartphones and wearables. The project aims to create smart systems that optimize the timing, type, and delivery method of digital health...

This National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21/R33 grant award in the amount of $734,360 aims to develop and validate an innovative, inexpensive multi-modal digital stethoscope capable of automated lung sound and respiratory rate analysis, with mobile phone interoperability to an electronic health (eHealth) platform for real-time lower respiratory infection (LRI) and antibiotic surveillance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The grant, awarded under the NIH's Child Health and Human...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the CFDA 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program is funding the development and testing of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to improve iron deficiency screening and management for pregnant individuals at high risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Specifically, the $118,089 award will support a two-phase project at Massachusetts...

This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912) will enable the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization, Inc. (FDRHPO) to implement the "Using the Community Health Worker Model to Improve Clinical and Social Outcomes of Rural High-Needs Individuals" project. The project aims to provide...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $192,507 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to adapt and evaluate a smartphone app-enhanced home blood pressure monitoring intervention for pregnant women in Ghana. The key products and services to be delivered include: Adapting an existing smartphone app for home blood pressure monitoring to the Ghanaian context...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was awarded a $211,347 federal Project Grant from the John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC)'s International Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.989) to implement a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices in Ghana. The project, titled "Implementing a Hospital-Based Continuous Patient Monitoring System Using Consumer Wearable Devices in Ghana", aims to develop and scale up a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $238,884 to the University of South Florida (USF) aims to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in low-resource settings. The study will examine how digital health services affect communication and treatment experiences between patients and healthcare providers in a low-resourced, predominantly rural area. Research methods include in-depth interviews and behavioral...

This $187,491 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop and test a digital health tool for assessing and reducing intersectional stigma in order to improve HIV care in ART centers in Nepal. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Intervention design, pre-piloting, and execution of the INCLUDE digital health tool, in...