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PatientCareAnywhere: Patient Support and Empowerment Across the Care Continuum

Award Number: R44CA192588
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/11/2016
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2020

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PatientCareAnywhere: Patient Support and Empowerment Across the Care Continuum - ¿ DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Comprehensive bio psychosocial screening, which covers not only physical symptoms and psychosocial issues, but also practical concerns such as transportation, finances, work and childcare, offers the true opportunity to maximize the benefits of medical care and social support to patients and their families while enhancing operational efficiency and resource management for healthcare organizations because of the identification and effective management of the bio psychosocial elements of cancer care. The early identification of patient problems is essential to manage distress, prevent crises, minimize system disruption, and reduce the costs of health care. There may be also added benefits related to patient, family and health care staff satisfaction as a result of enhanced communications and better care coordination. The overarching goal of PatientCareAnywhere as a patient-centered adaptive supportive care system is to improve patient outcomes for cancer patients while reducing healthcare costs. PatientCareAnywhere will be a patient empowerment solution to promote internal resilience and self-efficacy by creating new partnerships with patients and health care professionals across the care continuum: 1) geographically (home-hospital-community-home) and 2) medically (diagnosis-treatment-survivorship-death). Such support will be adaptive to individual's needs and health status based on comprehensive bio psychosocial screening and coordinated across multiple sources in the forms of referrals, education, engagement of community resources, and secure social communication. This project is based on the partnership between Bright Outcome and City of Hope (COH). PatientCareAnywhere will be derived from two existing systems, COH's Support Screen and Bright Outcome's MyCaringCircle, which share the same vision and are complementary in their approaches. Support Screen focuses on supportive care initiated from clinic-based encounters and MyCaringCircle is a home/community-based patient portal solution. Together, these two systems can provide comprehensive bio psychosocial screening and supportive care to patients across home to hospital settings and across the continuum of cancer care adaptively. This is a Fast-Track project. Phase I aims are to: 1) Collect input from 100 stakeholders on expected system features, perceived usefulness and impacts, and potential adoption barriers via focus groups; 2) Design and develop the prototype PatientCareAnywhere by leveraging support Screen and MyCaringCircle and by adapting the patient education materials from COH; 3) Conduct two usability tests with 24 subjects each and a pilot study with 50 subjects. Phase II aims are to: 1) Enhance and refine Phase I prototype based on Phase I evaluation feedback and expand disease stage and treatment modality support coverage; and 2) Conduct a randomized controlled trial with 516 patient subjects to confirm our study hypotheses of achieving better patient outcomes, better self-efficacy, and more cost-effective health service utilization with PatientCareAnywhere as compared to usual care.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2021	2018	BRIGHTOUTCOME INC.	1110 LAKE COOK RD STE 167	BUFFALO GROVE	IL	60089	LAKE	USA	Cancer Cause and Prevention Research	000	4	10/27/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $234,573 )
2018	2018	BRIGHTOUTCOME INC.	1110 LAKE COOK RD STE 167	BUFFALO GROVE	IL	60089	LAKE	USA	Cancer Cause and Prevention Research	000	4	4/12/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$234,573
														Subtotal = $234,573

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $514,301 )
2017	2017	BRIGHTOUTCOME INC.	1110 LAKE COOK RD STE 167	BUFFALO GROVE	IL	60089	LAKE	USA	Cancer Cause and Prevention Research	000	3	4/27/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$514,301
														Subtotal = $514,301

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $605,097 )
2016	2016	BRIGHTOUTCOME INC	1110 LAKE COOK ROAD SUITE 167	BUFFALO GROVE	IL	60089	LAKE	USA	Cancer Cause and Prevention Research	000	2	5/11/2016	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$605,097
														Subtotal = $605,097

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $212,123 )
2015	2015	BRIGHTOUTCOME INC	1110 LAKE COOK ROAD SUITE 167	BUFFALO GROVE	IL	60089	LAKE	USA	Cancer Cause and Prevention Research	000	1	3/25/2015	NEW	$212,123
														Subtotal = $212,123

Grand Total All Awards = $1,566,094

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PatientCareAnywhere: Patient Support and Empowerment Across the Care Continuum

Award Number: R44CA192588

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/11/2016

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2020

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