Telehealth Research in Cancer Care: NCI’s TRACE Initiative
NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences shared on LinkedIn:
“Technological advances, coupled with changes in healthcare needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have led to a substantial increase in telehealth use in the United States. As such, telehealth approaches to cancer care have been integrated across multiple care settings such as primary care, oncology care, and other specialty care. Responding to this uptick in recent years, the NCI’s Healthcare Delivery Research Program (HDRP), in collaboration with the Behavioral Research Program, has led multiple initiatives stimulating research to optimize the use of telehealth at all phases of cancer care – from prevention and screening through treatment and survivorship.
The NCI’s Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence (TRACE) initiative highlights how telehealth can improve healthcare access and quality, patient-provider communications, and health outcomes within diverse clinical settings. Supported by the Cancer MoonshotSM, TRACE funds four research centers focused on improving people’s lives by:
- developing evidence-based telehealth approaches to cancer care (prevention to survivorship),
- addressing disparities and telehealth services for cancer-related care,
- fostering innovation to improve cancer care delivery, and
- evaluating policy and payment and its impact on delivery of telehealth for cancer care.
The NCI also encourages investigator-initiated applications that propose research on (1) the use and impact of telehealth in cancer-related care as well as (2) the implications of telehealth policy changes on cancer care access, outcomes, and health equity. For more information on funding opportunities to support telehealth research, visit HDRP’s Digital Healthcare webpage.
For a recent example of how telehealth is effectively being integrated into palliative care for cancer patients, HDRP invites you to access the latest Cancer Currents Blog entitled, “Delivering Palliative Care by Telehealth Meets the Needs of People with Cancer,” which features findings from a recent study and remarks from HDRP’s Dr. Roxanne Jensen.
Read the full blog!”
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