Project Grant R01LM012090

The Sparta Community Hospital District (SCHD) was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912). The grant will fund SCHD's Chronic Care Management (CCM) Program, which aims to reduce health disparities and improve patient outcomes in the underserved rural populations of southwest Illinois. Key...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds the development of a personalized consumer health guidance platform by Rift Valley Health Co. The platform will analyze an individual's sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mental health data from wearables and smart home devices to generate a baseline health profile and recommendations. Both objective biometric data and subjective user inputs will be integrated to draw meaningful correlations and develop a...

This $997,693 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop an interactive health assessment and monitoring platform to improve patient-provider communication and reduce healthcare costs. The project by Literaseed, Inc. integrates electronic health record (EHR) data with natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract valuable information from medical records, enabling...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology program (CFDA 93.345) provides $1,997,806 to develop innovative solutions that address critical challenges in health information technology (IT) interoperability. The project, titled "Scalable, Shareable, and Computable Clinical Knowledge for...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $1,314,024 Project Grant under CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to implement the "Coaching and Navigation by CHWs through Telehealth for High-Risk Hypertension" (CONNECT-HTN) intervention. The project aims to reduce death and hospitalization due to heart disease or stroke by connecting patients with severe hypertension to primary care resources and providing...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) provides $1,909,966 to Xanthoshealth, Inc. to develop and evaluate CONNECTEDNEST, a digital platform that connects individuals with cancer to social care services. The project aims to enhance the technical infrastructure of the CONNECTEDNEST platform, expand its integration capabilities, and conduct a randomized clinical trial involving 300 cancer...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912) supports the University of Rochester Medical Center's "Clinical Workflow Change Management Project for TCFM & FLH". The project aims to improve cybersecurity, business/financial performance, patient/provider support, and healthcare access...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $469,291 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to evaluate a data-driven implementation strategy for a Comprehensive Care Management and Care Coordination (CCM/CC) intervention targeted at improving HIV care continuum outcomes among a population of highly vulnerable people with HIV. The project aims to: 1) Examine...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to develop a remote patient monitoring (RPM)-informed clinical decision support (CDS) tool for managing patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). The award of $189,332 will fund research to identify barriers to adopting RPM in ILD care, evaluate the performance of ILD risk classification algorithms using RPM data, and assess the...

This three-year $563,797 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to design health data-tracking technologies tailored for children. Led by the University of California Irvine, the award supports examining challenges in tracking children's health data through smartwatches, fitness bands, and patient monitors. The project consists of three stages. First, interviews will study data literacy, tracking experiences, and...