SBIR Phase II: User Application and Backend Portal to Enhance and Measure Addiction Treatment and Recovery Efficacy

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是进一步开发其队列招募工具的技术功能，这将推动推出一个生产质量物质滥用障碍（SUD）研究平台，该平台旨在供大学，学术医疗中心，美国政府资助的成瘾研究每年超过14亿美元。该项目将使该公司能够直接为更广泛的社会目标做出贡献，即减少物质滥用、成瘾和治疗服务对社会各界个人的负面影响和成本（例如，少数民族、退伍军人等）使成瘾研究人员能够提出新的和更有效的成瘾康复支持和干预措施，这对改善健康结果和控制医疗保健成本至关重要。增强的功能将为SUD研究人员和利益相关者提供一个独特的平台，以研究和利用现有证据来改善治疗方案，政策和融资，以改善成瘾康复结果。开发该产品将使该公司能够将其庞大的移动的康复社区与最先进的研究工具相结合，为成瘾研究人员提供重要价值，并向公共和私人健康保险公司展示有效性。这两个重要的目标客户。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将帮助研究人员提出新的技术干预措施，并支持科学方法，以改善人口健康结果。虽然技术正在出现，以帮助解决恢复支持，但这些尚未满足其全部潜力，以满足人们24/7努力保持清醒的需求，包括SUD研究人员在内的从业者的需求，旨在支持他们的恢复，以及健康保险公司激励最佳实践并改善健康和控制成本的愿望。研究目标包括通过构建、测试和实施一个生产就绪的开源研究平台来扩展队列招募工具的概念验证，该平台具有用于进行科学研究的增强功能，包括参与者评估和干预计划、高级队列选择和前瞻性分配功能、自动化研究管理功能、白色标签比较应用程序、高度可扩展的体系结构，支持非常大的研究，灵活的数据托管和管理功能，以及安全的软件更新基础设施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to further develop the technical functionality of its cohort recruitment tool that will advance efforts to launch a production quality substance abuse disorder (SUD) research platform designed for use by addiction researchers at universities, academic medical centers, and commercial sector where U.S. publicly-funded research on addictions exceeds $1.4 billion per year. The project will enable the company to contribute directly to broader societal goals of reducing the negative effects and costs of substance abuse, addiction, and treatment services to individuals from all sectors of society (e.g., minorities, veterans, etc.) by enabling addiction researchers to surface novel and more effective addiction recovery supports and interventions essential to enhancing health outcomes and controlling health care costs. The enhanced functionality will provide SUD researchers and stakeholders a unique platform to study and leverage existing evidence to improve treatment protocols, policies, and financing to improve addiction recovery outcomes. Developing the product will enable the company to combine its large mobile recovery community with state-of-the-art research tools that provide significant value to addiction researchers and demonstrate effectiveness to public and private health insurers ? two important target customers.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will aid researchers in surfacing novel technical interventions and support scientific methods to improve population health outcomes. Although technologies are emerging to help address recovery support, these have not yet met their full potential for addressing the needs of people striving 24/7 to stay sober, the needs of practitioners including SUD researchers intent on supporting their recovery, and the desire for health insurers to incentivize best practices and to improve health and control costs. The research objectives include expanding on its proof-of-concept for a cohort recruitment tool by building, testing, and implementing a production-ready open-source research platform with enhanced features for conducting scientific studies including participant assessment and intervention scheduling, advanced cohort selection and prospective assignment features, automated study management features, a white label comparison app, highly scalable architecture enabling very large studies, flexible data hosting and management capabilities, and secure software update infrastructure. The result will be an extensible, scalable, and open-source software tool for conducting a broad variety of scientifically rigorous behavioral research studies, including clinical trials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.