DIMAGI, INC. — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase II: NIDA
DIMAGI, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Health and Human Services.
- Amount
- $998,926
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- NIDA
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- —
Description
In this SBIR Phase II contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse we study the efficiency effectiveness and acceptability of the NASCare system a mmobile open source platform that suports innovative tools designed for clinicians to assess and treat infants who exhibit symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome NAS The system will be built and iteratively refined with input from neonatal intensive care unit NICU and neonatal nursery providers at three major hospitals in and around the Boston area A working version of the system will be deployed and tested using a quasi experimental pre post study design with providers in the NICU to determine efficiency and effectiveness outcomes User acceptance testing will be performed This work will be done in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of NAS experts CME curriculum designers health information systems specialists and multimedia content developers Results of this Phase II will inform the system s potential for deployment and commercialization as a mobile platform for testing and implementing mobile tools developed to improve the care of NAS infants