McKesson Foundation’s Mobilizing for Health initiative has awarded The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, grant of an unspecified amount to develop and test a mobile self-management app for cancer therapy patients. The program will help patients who are on oral chemotherapy to better monitor their symptoms and adverse effects of their treatment.
The development of the...
For the second year in a row, the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare in Boston has received a McKesson Foundation research grant to develop and study a text messaging system that will help patients with a specific condition. This time, the unspecified grant will support SMS and voice response technology for managing pain associated with cancer treatment in hopes of reducing...
Dr Neal Sikka, GWU
The McKesson Foundation announced the winners of six research grants it has awarded as part of its Mobilizing for Health initiative. The grants include $1.3 million in funds in total and each of the awardees will receive grants of around $250,000 for their mobile phone-enabled research project centered on diabetes management. The projects that the Foundation awarded make use...
MobiHealthNews recently interviewed Carrie Varoquiers, President of the McKesson Foundation, to learn more about the foundation's recently launched Mobilizing for Health grant initiative that has an annual budget of $1.5 million to fund innovative mHealth research projects.
Why did the McKesson Foundation decide to launch its mHealth initiative? How does it relate to the foundation's other...
