On March 31, 2022, NIH posted the reissued Funding Opportunity Announcement (PAR-22-145) “Leveraging Health IT to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities”. The funding will also examine the impact of Leveraging Health IT to improve patient-clinician communications.
Health IT is considered an important for addressing challenges in healthcare associated with Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). The goal is to capture and integrate standardized measures of demographic data and SDoH data in EHRs to improve outcomes for populations that experience health disparities and also provide preventive care, population health management, and disease management.
NIH’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) mentions telehealth as a special interest and seeks ideas on:
- Evaluating telehealth policies on access to care
- Discuss the impact of telehealth care delivery models on quality of care, health outcomes, healthcare utilization, patient self-management/decision-making, and costs
- Address the use of interventions to address the challenges, including SDoH and health literacy
- Enable interoperability of health IT tools (e.g., mobile apps, wearables, and other devices) with EHR systems to support high and low resource clinical settings, healthcare systems such as pharmacy chains with providers
Contact yew.oladinde@nih.gov for more information
The National Eye Institute (NEI) supports basic and clinical research on diseases and disorders of the visual system and the special needs of people with impaired vision or are blind. NEI is particularly interested in improved methods to deliver vision care in rehabilitation in underserved populations including people in urban and rural settings.
Research topics may include but are not limited to telemedicine, screening and automated diagnosis, medication adherence, quality of life, and rehabilitation strategies
Contact james.gao@nih.gov for more information
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is focused on evaluating health IT tools to address disparities in the early detection and treatment of mental illnesses and suicide risk. Interested in optimizing telehealth care delivery models to increase access to HIV prevention and care services in underserved populations.
Contact christine.ulbricht@nih.gov for more information
For more details on the funding notice Leveraging Health Information Technology (Health IT) to Address and Reduce Health Care Disparities (ROI Clinical Trial Optional) PAR-22-145, Go to https://grants.nih.bo/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-22-145.html for the Funding Opportunity Notice