Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
We need your thoughts to optimize our intended Eureka Prize Competition on using technology to improve care for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Navigating the complex US healthcare system can be challenging for people living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD) and their caregivers. They must pursue an uncertain course of care of unknown duration across different care settings and interact with many different types of care providers and many different types of interventions. Models of dementia care have evolved in recent years and have the potential to improve outcomes. Barriers to adoption, however, include but are not limited to workforce limitations, the cost of practice redesign, and limited uptake by insurers and health systems.
The goal of our intended prize competition is to yield innovations that improve the quality of care for people living with AD/ADRD by establishing a proof of concept for the creation of a widely accessible and innovative technology tool(s) that addresses unmet needs in care coordination and/or care navigation through the health system. The concepts generated in this prize competition may be targeted at consumers (patients, caregivers), healthcare providers, healthcare service organizations, and/or health systems, and/or community, local, or state government, and will ideally foster connections between these stakeholders. For example, a collaboration between a technology company, EHR vendor and nursing home chain could yield EHR-based methods to improve care coordination.
We are looking for your ideas on the following topics as well as other related input that you would like to share:
• The possibility that this prize activity duplicates other ongoing activities in any relevant sector (e.g., academia, business)
• Attractiveness of this question to a broad audience of possible solvers
• The length of time solvers would need to develop a prize submission
• Metrics that judges might use to identify a winner