06.24.2019

Foundation Looking for a Plan to Improve Diagnoses

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, dedicated to diagnostic performance improvement, is offering grants of $250,000 to $500,000 for the development and validation of new clinical measures to improve diagnoses in three areas: acute vascular events, infections, and cancer.
 
The Moore Foundation’s announced its Diagnostic Excellence Initiative that aims to reduce harm from erroneous or delayed diagnoses, reduce costs and redundancy in the diagnostic process, and improve health outcomes.
 
According to the online application form, successful grant entries will contain “a proposed measure of diagnostic performance based on obtainable evidence in one or more of the three priority categories … The expected work requires two interlinked activities: 1) development of the rationale for a measure and 2) operationalizing the measure into an algorithm that can undergo pilot (or proof-of-concept) testing…” Three to six grants will be awarded for work done over 12 to 18 months.

For more information, including the application form due back to the Moore Foundation by August 2, click here.