Project Grant ASTWH070003

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $811,228 to B.A. Maze, Inc. to develop and test the At-Home Health Station (AHS), a technology platform designed to assist individuals with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (CI/ADRD) in maintaining independence and health. The AHS is a modular, plug-and-play system that simplifies digital experiences for CI/ADRD users and enables caregivers to set customized...

This $100,000 project grant was awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. The funding will support research by the American Board of Family Medicine Inc. (ABFM) to analyze how primary care practices respond to the implementation of four different clinical guideline updates. Specifically, the ABFM will use their large repository of electronic health records from over 800 primary care...

This Project Grant award of $332,109 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, supports the "SMARTSTART: A DIGITALLY-ENHANCED DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES" project at Arizona State University (ASU). The project aims to develop and implement a digital-enhanced diabetes self-management education and...

This $145,139 federal 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, supports a research study by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) to develop a community-informed, equity-focused approach to improving healthcare quality and reducing racial disparities in primary care. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year...

This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...

The federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health (CFDA 93.137 - Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program) supports the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in addressing health inequities and improving health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in its service area. The project aims to increase access to high-quality healthcare and achieve Healthy People 2030 goals for healthcare access and quality, as...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226), provides $400,000 to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to conduct a pragmatic randomized trial evaluating a "whole person" navigation intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). The key objectives are to: 1) develop a predictive model to identify patients with MCC at highest risk of not...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $211,347 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to develop and scale up a consumer-grade wearable monitoring system to improve outcomes in low-resource settings in Ghana. The project aims to implement a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices to enhance the triage of...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) provides $794,496 to the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation (PIRE) to implement and evaluate a structurally competent adaptation of the Critical Time Intervention (CTI-T) for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients. The project aims to reduce disparities in...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $200,000.00, is provided by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The award is for the "Cooperative Agreements to Promote Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance" program (CFDA 93.079), which aims to improve the health and well-being of middle and high school students through...