HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE, IMPLEMENTATION, AND IMPACT (HI-3)
Apply the utility of novel health ecosystems, stakeholder collaborations, and real world to data to maximize clinical impact.
Apply the utility of novel health ecosystems, stakeholder collaborations, and real world to data to maximize clinical impact.
Healthcare is increasingly shifting towards ease of access and patient empowerment. Simultaneously, emerging health threats are intercalating into our daily lives, forcing a reimagining of pandemic preparedness. To remain agile in our response to new threats, we need to build upon what is succeeding today. The future is now, mandated and accelerated by COVID-19, where novel health ecosystems and can be leveraged, vast amounts of health data can be accessed, and successes of health product investments can be measured not just by regulatory approval but by the clinical impact they have every day.
The HI-3 program collaborates across BARDA and other US Government Agencies to reduce the incidence, morbidity, and mortality of sepsis. Sepsis, which can arise from almost any infection, impacts around 1.7 million adults annually in the US, contributes to over 250,000 deaths, and leaves many survivors with long-term health challenges, making sepsis a critical public health threat.
The HI-3 program has made a strategic investment with the Sepsis Alliance to bring together subject matter experts from diverse stakeholder groups. The goal of this public-private partnership is to address unmet needs around infection management and sepsis prevention, detection, and treatment.
The HI-3 program is interested exploring the utility of decentralized care models. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated new opportunities for patients to access health care in more convenient settings like retail clinics or at home via telehealth. Simultaneously, it highlighted the difficulties of implementing clinical studies, especially for products designed for use in settings outside of the hospital. Decentralized healthcare models have the potential to vastly improve both patient recruitment for clinical studies during public health emergencies and improve patient access to care. DRIVe is interested in leveraging such an ecosystem for:
The HI-3 program is de-risking strategies for public health emergencies, but also piloting new solutions. We want to leverage insights gained from how care is sought and delivered in the real world to identify gaps in pandemic preparedness and address unmet clinical needs, expand to new care settings, and demonstrate ability to change clinical outcomes.
Implement next generation health care and clinical study models
Strengthen ability to be agile to new threats
Identify gaps and foster strategic approaches to drive change
Demonstrate the clinical value of new products, technologies, and delivery models in changing patient health journeys
The HI-3 program created the Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge to address gaps in our understanding of COVID progression in pediatric populations. Participants developed, trained, and validated computational models to predict pediatric patients' risk for negative clinical outcomes.
To provide contemporary estimates of the burdens (costs and mortality) associated with acute inpatient Medicare beneficiary admissions for sepsis.
To distinguish characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries who will have an acute inpatient admission for sepsis from those who have an inpatient admission without sepsis, and to describe their further trajectories during and subsequent
To evaluate the impact of sepsis, age, and comorbidities on death following an acute inpatient admission and to model and forecast inpatient and skilled nursing facility costs for Medicare beneficiaries during and
To provide updated information on the burdens of sepsis during acute inpatient admissions for Medicare beneficiaries.
Influenza causes substantial mortality, especially among older persons. Influenza vaccines are rarely more than 50% effective and rarely reach more than half of the US Medicare population...