Kidney Transplant CareLink

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议肾移植CareLink，一个 基于互联网的学习、交流和关怀支持应用程序 帮助肾移植受者提高自我管理能力和 他们使用学习在一段时间内维持免疫抑制方案的能力 和干预策略，包括个性化教学、提醒、 互动式咨询、监测、同伴支持和辅导。我们将使用 由患者自我报告收集的信息，以量身定制学习和 对病人的沟通干预？个人需求。 肾移植CareLink将成为一个以患者为中心的互联网网站 将患者直接连接到他们自己的移植中心护理团队。会的 成为全天候“一站式”的知识、个性化学习和关怀的来源 支持、自我照顾功能和情感支持。移植受者 将在他们想要的时间以他们喜欢的格式获得他们想要的信息， 直接从他们自己的移植中心供应商那里。它将启用收件人 和移植中心护理团队保持强烈的连接感， 无论地理位置如何，随着时间的推移，知识交流和协作。 肾移植CareLink将被肾移植中心和他们的 患者，以及健康计划和付款人。如果成功，这将是 基于互联网的模式将适用于规模庞大且不断增长的 胰腺、肝脏、心脏和肺移植受者。 拟议的商业应用：我们相信肾移植CareLink将有效地解决肾移植中对患者预后不利的重大问题。我们认为，目前还没有商业应用可供移植中心和患者使用，以满足需求的范围和特殊性，并有可能像我们的模型那样改善结果。肾移植CareLink解决了市场上一个重要的未得到满足的需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose Kidney Transplant CareLink, an Internet-based learning, communication, and care support application that will help kidney transplant recipients improve their self-management skills and their ability to maintain immunosuppressive regimens over time using learning and intervention strategies, including individualized teaching, reminders, interactive counseling, monitoring, and peer support and mentoring. We will use information gathered by patient self-report to tailor learning and communication interventions to patients? individual needs. Kidney Transplant CareLink will be a patient-centered Internet web site connecting patients directly to their own transplant center care team. It will be a "one-stop," 24/7 source of knowledge, individualized learning and care support, self-care functionality, and emotional support. Transplant recipients will get information they want, when they want it, and in a format they prefer, directly from their own transplant center providers. It will enable recipients and the transplant center care team to sustain a strong sense of connection, knowledge exchange, and collaboration over time, regardless of geography. Kidney Transplant CareLink will be used by kidney transplant centers and their patients, as well as health plans and payers. If successful, this Internet-based model will be applicable to large and growing populations of pancreas, liver, heart, and lung transplant recipients. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: We believe that Kidney Transplant CareLink will effectively address significant problems that adversely affect patient outcomes in kidney transplantation. We believe there is currently no commercial application available to transplant centers and patients that addresses the range and specificity of needs and that has the potential to improve outcomes as our model does. Kidney Transplant CareLink addresses a significant unmet need in the marketplace.