NCI funding pilot to advance sensors, self-reporting
The National Cancer Institute has awarded $2.2 million to a mobile health vendor to create next-generation passive sensing and self-reporting tools to enhance clinical interventions for at-risk patients.
QMedic is launching a three-year clinical partnership with Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, which will focus on delivering mHealth interventions to cancer rehabilitation patients based in remote environments.
"To this point, passive sensing has been limited to 'quantified self' applications, which appeal to the fitness enthusiast but offer little to no insight to clinicians interested in shifting the paradigm of care delivery from treatment to prevention," said QMedic CEO Sombit Mishra. "Our partnership with Northwestern and the National Cancer Institute is designed to validate and scale an integrated mHealth approach for measuring and improving patient outcomes in the home."
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