Digital solutions for improved cancer care in LMICs

The City Cancer Challenge Foundation is searching for digital solutions to be featured in our new digital health library. For this first round of applications, we are searching for digital solutions that are context appropriate for LMICs and solve challenges related to patient navigation. 

The City Cancer Challenge Foundation aims to build the capacity of healthcare providers and decision makers in limited resource settings to integrate digital health solutions that are fit-for purpose, financially sustainable and long-lasting to support patient services and care. As part of our digital health workstream, we are developing a library of solutions that will be made publically available to decision-makers and health stakeholders in our network of cities. 

The challenges that LMICs face when implementing patient navigation services are broad and must be contextualized. We are particularly interested in developed digital health solutions that can improve the workflow of cancer patient navigators and ease system pressures in the following areas: 

• Intra-hospital services including:
  • Patient entry point and onboarding
  • Oncology Patient Records (EHR modules)
  • Appointment scheduling for consultations and interventions and reminder management (service acceleration)
  • Patient communication (clinical monitoring & logistics/administrative follow-ups)
  • Patient care, information and education
  • Financial education on care costs and access to available financing options

• Inter-Hospital Services including: 
  • Patient referral and counter referral
  • Continuous communication between community and tertiary levels of care 
  • Discovery of care & services availability
    

If you have any further questions about the library, please contact digital@citycancerchallenge.org