# SurvivorCare: A digital health solution to support long-term cancer survivorship using patient navigation

> **NIH NIH R44** · DIMAGI, INC. · 2021 · $764,805

## Abstract

Project Summary
There is a growing and urgent need to address a gap in transitional and follow-up care for long-term cancer
survivors shifting from oncology-based to primary and community-based care. Frontline health workers such as
patient navigators and community health workers can support cancer survivors with the transition from oncology-
based to primary care. The overall goal of this Phase II SBIR project is to refine and test SurvivorCare, a mobile-
/web-based system to support long-term cancer survivorship through patient navigation for low-resource,
underserved populations. Following a human-centered design approach and recommendations and learnings
from Phase I pilot work, we will develop and test a functional web/mobile application expressly designed for
patient navigators and other frontline health workers assisting with patient navigation and cancer survivors
through a centralized platform supporting needs related to cancer survivorship care planning. We will achieve
our project goal through 3 specific aims:
 • Specific Aim 1. We will build a functional prototype based on feedback collected in Phase I. Specifically,
 we will expand the scope of our Phase I work to include support for patients in early stages of survivorship
 with prevalent cancer types with survivorship care plans and/or patient navigation programs such as
 colorectal, breast, prostate, lung, and head/neck cancers.
 ● Specific Aim 2. We will conduct usability testing of a functional prototype with target end users (patient
 navigators and cancer survivors) to validate content and usability.
 ● Specific Aim 3. We will conduct beta testing in real-world clinical settings with target end users in two
 large, urban, safety net hospitals serving diverse, low-resource populations.
Results from this project will go towards furthering research and implementation efforts in developing tools to
promote collaboration and coordination between frontline health workers, cancer survivors, PCPs, and other
cancer care team members to mitigate pronounced health disparities in long-term cancer survivorship.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10321516
- **Project number:** 2R44CA265301-02
- **Recipient organization:** DIMAGI, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** Y. Xian Ho
- **Activity code:** R44 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $764,805
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2021-09-21 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10321516

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10321516, SurvivorCare: A digital health solution to support long-term cancer survivorship using patient navigation (2R44CA265301-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10321516. Licensed CC0.

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