Posted on | CategoriesCollege of Nursing / Population Health / Population Health Sciences | PI: Andrea S. Wallace, PhD, RN, FAAN

Supporting Health by Screening for Social Needs

When patients struggle to get enough food, lack stable housing, or have limited access to transportation, their health can suffer. One analysis estimated that as much as 50 percent of the variation in health outcomes between counties in the U.S. can be attributed to social determinants of health like these. Such factors can limit the … […] Continue reading → Supporting Health by Screening for Social Needs Continue reading → Supporting Health by Screening for Social Needs

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Posted on | CategoriesBioinformatics / College of Nursing | PI: Katherine Sward, PhD, RN

Pinpointing Environmental Sources of Pediatric Asthma

Identifying the sources that trigger pediatric asthma is critical for successful therapeutic interventions. The University scientists collaborated with the families to develop a biomedical informatics platform to crowdsource and link air quality data with personal health monitoring data and other data resources to pinpoint environmental causes of patient symptoms. Continue reading → Pinpointing Environmental Sources of Pediatric Asthma
Posted on | CategoriesCancer / College of Nursing | PI: Kathi Mooney, PhD, RN

Cancer Symptom Care at Home

Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator Kathi Mooney, PhD, RN, and her colleague, Susan Beck, PhD, APRN, developed Symptom Care at Home, an automated, remote-monitoring platform that assesses 11 cancer symptoms at home, provides automated self-management coaching based on the symptom severity reported, and automatically alerts the clinical team about symptoms requiring further intervention. Continue reading → Cancer Symptom Care at Home