ASSISTECH SYSTEMS LLC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase I: NIDILRR
ASSISTECH SYSTEMS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Health and Human Services.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Health and Human Services in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $99,994. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code NIDILRR links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $99,994
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · Administration for Community Living
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- NIDILRR
- Solicitation
- HHS-2020-ACL-NIDILRR-BISA-0376
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- —
Description
This project develops the Person-Centered Oral Health Care System (PCOHS), a model that facilitates both enhanced self-managed oral health care while also providing a platform for training, coaching, and coordinated care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their support teams. Through the platform, dental practitioners can customize oral health supports that enhance better self-care and individualized routines to foster consistent training, prompting, and encouragement by care providers. Progress data is measured using established health care goals that are monitored and tracked remotely by supporting team members and health care providers to help individuals with IDD improve their ongoing oral hygiene. The web-based platform also supports individuals with IDD who experience anxiety about dental procedures and visits through video priming prior to appointments. PCOHS supports individuals with IDD to take a more active role in their daily oral hygiene, so they will be more likely to have successful routine dental visits, and their care providers will have increased access to strategies specific to this target population.