PC3I Presents 14 Abstracts at ASCO Quality Care Symposium 2022
09.27.2022
The 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium features 14 abstracts from Innovation Faculty, Fellows, and staff at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I).
Transforming Cancer Care
Our mission is to make cancer care better for patients, clinicians, and communities. We work at the nexus of research and practice to create, test, and scale solutions to improve health, health care, and health equity for patients with cancer; enhance the patient and clinician experience; and increase care efficiency and value.
Our Initiatives
We are change agents dedicated to designing, testing, scaling and disseminating innovations in cancer care.
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We are worldwide experts in employing financial and non-financial interventions to nudge patient and clinician behavior in cancer care, informed by lessons from health economics and behavioral economics.
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We aim to drive high-value cancer care by designing, testing, scaling and evaluating payment models that enhance affordability, access and innovation.
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We employ a health equity lens across our work, examining and addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities and other systemic barriers to accessing healthcare.
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We integrate augmented and artificial intelligence into our solutions to predict health outcomes, support decision making, challenge bias, and enhance health equity.
Augmented & Artificial IntelligencePC3I News
PC3I Wins $5.7 Million NCI Grant for New Cancer Telehealth Research Center of Excellence Supported by White House Leadership
08.18.2022
Penn TRACE is one of four NCI Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence to receive a five-year, $5.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, for a new research center to develop and test advanced methods of telehealth delivery for cancer care with a focus on promoting health equity.
PC3I Presents 20 First- and Senior-Authored Abstracts at ASCO 2022
06.02.2022
The ASCO Annual Meeting 2022 features 20 first- and senior-authored abstracts from Innovation Faculty, Fellows, and staff at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I).
Media Spotlight
Hospital Type and Spending for Privately Insured Pennsylvania Residents Undergoing Cancer Surgery
08.17.2022
A PA state-level analysis evaluated hospital-level differences in spending and care utilization among privately insured patients undergoing cancer surgery for breast, colon, or lung cancer.
“The Untold Successes of the War on Cancer”: 50 Years of the National Cancer Act
11.22.2021
Reflecting on 50 years of the National Cancer Act, PC3I Faculty Ravi Parikh shares his thoughts with AARP on new cancer treatments and improvements in managing treatment side effects.
Overall Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Down, But “We Are Still Failing Black Women”
10.19.2021
Dr. Christine Edmonds and PC3I Faculty Dr. Lola Fayanju share several ways in which Black women experience socioeconomic barriers and systemic biases that impact breast cancer treatment and survival.