SBIR-STTR Award

Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hospice and Palliative
Award last edited on: 8/22/2011

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
NIH : NCI
Total Award Amount
$1,348,446
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
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Principal Investigator
Chris Weiss

Company Information

Dynamic Clinical Systems Inc (AKA: DCS)

PO Box 5218
Hanover, NH 03755
   (603) 397-3637
   info@dynamicclinical.com
   www.dynamicclinical.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Grafton

Phase I

Contract Number: 261200800051C-0-0-1
Start Date: 9/30/2008    Completed: 6/30/2009
Phase I year
2008
Phase I Amount
$149,999
The long-term objective is to develop a highly secure, patient-friendly system for patients living with advanced cancer and their family caregivers to enable at-home symptom management and surveillance; to provide just-in-time, tailored, self-care education; to measure patient-reported quality of life and outcomes specific to palliative care; to generate patient-consented referrals based on patient responses; and to feed forward relevant information to the palliative care team, oncology team, and specialists to support clinical decision making. Phase I objectives are first to define the system and process requirements for content (questionnaires, algorithms, reports, education content tailored to advanced cancer patients and their families, caregivers, and providers), technical issues (functional system requirements), and process (roles, tasks, dependencies, and workflow). The second main objective is to develop and evaluate a prototype of the proposed design. This will include a web-based, highly secure, user-friendly interface tailored to patient and proxy preferences; tailored surveys to collect health history, symptoms, and health-related quality of life measures directly from advanced cancer patients and proxies; simple, clinician-approved instructions, advice, and education tailored to patient- and proxy-preferred formats; clinician entry for treatment protocols, patient observations, patient communication; and reports summarizing patient entry, longitudinal scores, red flags, and protocols for appointments and monitoring of at-home entry.

NIH Spending Category:
Aging; Basic Behavioral and Social Science; Behavioral and Social Science; Bioengineering; Cancer; Clinical Research; Health Services; Networking and Information Technology R&D

Phase II

Contract Number: 261201000086C-0-0-1
Start Date: 00/00/00    Completed: 00/00/00
Phase II year
2010
Phase II Amount
$1,198,447
The long-term objective is to improve the care and quality of life for patients living with advanced cancer and their family caregivers by implementing a highly secure, user-friendly system to: - Maintain interactive symptom surveillance and medication adherence - Measure patient-reported quality of life - Provide tailored care plans and education for patients and their caregivers based on their responses - Generate automatic referrals to specia lists based on patient responses - Feed forward relevant information to Palliative Care teams to support clinical decision-making.

NIH Spending Category:
Basic Behavioral and Social Science; Behavioral and Social Science; Cancer

Project Terms:
Adoption; Advanced Cancer; Advanced Malignant Neoplasm; base; Care Givers; Caregivers; Caring; clinical decision-making; comfort care; design; designing; education planning; Enhancement Technology; Family Care Giver; Family Caregiver; feeding; improved; Life; Measures; medication adherence; medication compliance; Palliative Care; Palliative Treatment; Patient Care; Patient Care Delivery; Patient Education; Patient Instruction; Patient Training; Patients; Phase; Process; QOL; Quality of life; Reporting; response; satisfaction; Secure; Site; Symptoms; System; System, LOINC Axis 4; Therapy, Palliative; usability; user-friendly