Advancing Digital Innovation to Reduce Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care and Research
Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of deaths in the U.S.
Among those that do survive, they are 2.5 times more likely to declare bankruptcy compared to those without a history of cancer.
Digital innovation holds promise to ensure access to quality care and reduce cost of cancer care. This set of open-access resources helps health systems and their partners address barriers to implementing digital health tools in cancer care and research.
Use the solutions catalog, core competencies, and financial navigation guide, to implement digital solutions to improve healthcare access, cost, and clinical outcomes for your patients. And use the Digital Navigation ROI Calculator and Digitally Enabled Patient Navigation Blueprint to quantify and maximize the ROI of your investments in digitally enabled patient navigation.
By using these resources, you can unlock the promise of digital innovation to minimize challenges in cancer care access and out-of-pocket cost measures associated with cancer, ensuring that financial worries do not overshadow the fight for recovery.
Use these Resources to Further Your Digital Innovation Strategy
Digitally Enabled Patient Navigation Blueprint
By using this resource, you’ll learn best practices for program design to make digital navigation programming more accessible with a standardized workflow, EHR-adaption build guides, and reimbursement information.
Digital Navigation ROI Calculator
Use the core competencies guide to plan and implement your digital strategy to reduce out-of-pocket costs for your patients, especially for those that struggle most.
Health System Core Competencies Guide
Use the core competencies guide to plan and implement your digital strategy to improve equity in access to cancer care and reduce out-of-pocket cost for your patients.
The Solutions Catalog
Review fit-for-purpose solutions to implement your digital strategy to improve access to cancer treatment and reduce patient financial toxicity.
Financial Navigation Guide
Use this guide to learn how financial navigators can support cancer patients along their journeys.
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Partners
A multi-stakeholder team of leaders from a wide array of disciplines in cancer care, research, digital innovation, and regulatory science – alongside patient experts – dug into the root causes of access issues and financial toxicity in cancer. This work will help accelerate human-centered digital innovation to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing cancer patients, providers, and researchers.
Members also include the National Cancer Institute
