The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) www.cancer.gov SBIR Development Center, recently released their SBIR Solicitation (PHS 2017-1) due October 21, 2016 that includes 15 contract topics of interest to the SBIR community related to cancer projects.
One of the topics “Connecting Cancer Caregivers to Care Teams: Digital Platforms to Support Informal Cancer Caregiving” (NIH/NCI 363) seeks to develop software, database systems, and mobile application tools to support cancer caregivers by connecting them with their patients’ care teams.
Technology offers the potential to mitigate patient demands and alleviate distress by offering caregivers decision-making tools, strategies for managing and communicating symptoms with providers, and assistance with technical medical tasks to make care coordination possible.
The goal is to enable clinical interactions and provide for further information, resources, and service referrals. Organizations, providers, caregivers, and patients will have dashboards available to assess adherence to treatment, be able to identify high-risk patients, identify care gaps, and enable clinical data query functions.
NCI also wants to see a secure bi-directional communication system to enable healthcare providers and authorized caregivers provide messages and information on changes to the care plan.
Go to https://sbir.cancer.gov/funding/contracts/currentcontracts for more details on the SBIR PHS 2017-1 Solicitation that includes 15 contract topics released by the National Cancer Institute.