# iDAPT: Implementation and Informatics - Developing Adaptable Processes and Technologies for Cancer Control

> **NIH NIH P50** · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2021 · $117,572

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY 
iDAPT’s Implementation Laboratory will support the emerging theme to use technology to support rapid cycle 
and real time deployment and testing of implementation processes and adaptations in cancer control. The 
Laboratory will do so via three distinct, yet interrelated Aims. First, iDAPT’s Developing Center will existing 
relationships with primary care and oncology clinics representing diversity in terms of geographic locations, clinic 
structure, and patient populations utilizing a Hub and Spokes framework. The Lab will start in Hubs, 
geographically co-located clinics at our two hubs in North Carolina (Wake Forest Baptist Health Network and 
Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Massachusetts (UMass Memorial Health, UMass- 
Baystate, and Reliant Medical Group). The Lab will grow in collaboration with our Spokes: existing virtual 
networks, including community-based oncology clinics affiliated with the Wake Forest National Community 
Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base (over 900 total clinics) and the Veterans Health 
Administration clinics affiliated with the VA eHealth Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (eQUERI - a 
national implementation science initiative led by UMMS/VA dual investigators). Second, the Implementation 
Laboratory will provide critical infrastructure to facilitate the rapid initiation and successful conduct of cancer 
prevention and control implementation and methods studies concordant with Lab Member priorities and iDAPT’s 
emerging theme. Third, the Implementation Laboratory will maintain a Data Management Unit and Practice 
Surveillance Unit to ensure scientific rigor, identify best practices, and inform the refinement of Center resources 
to maintain and sustain the Lab. iDAPT’s Implementation Laboratory builds upon an existing robust 
infrastructure for clinical innovations, and support for evaluation. Lab infrastructure will emphasize shared 
governance with co-PIs located at Wake Forest and UMass with complementary expertise and experiences in 
the Hub and Spoke sites, state-of-the-art data management, and purposeful programmatic surveillance. The 
Implementation Laboratory will work closely with the Administrative Core and the Research Program to ensure 
the success of the iDAPT Developing Center.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10247727
- **Project number:** 5P50CA244693-03
- **Recipient organization:** WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Thomas K Houston
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $117,572
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-18 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10247727

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10247727, iDAPT: Implementation and Informatics - Developing Adaptable Processes and Technologies for Cancer Control (5P50CA244693-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10247727. Licensed CC0.

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