The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $23 million to four universities to develop cancer care telehealth centers as part of NCI’s Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence initiative, Healthcare IT News reports.
Under the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, the TRACE program is focused on how best to use and sustain telehealth to provide cancer-related care.
There has been growing interest in how to enhance patient care experiences through the development of hybrid models that layer in virtual care opportunities like telehealth. Each center will study how telehealth supports cancer patients across a number of disciplines and factors. Read more.
