Core Activities

The Technical Data and Health Care Systems Core provides the opportunity, conceptual foundations, technical expertise, and research resources for investigators and health care system to partner to design and conduct rigorous, feasible and highly impactful ePCTs of non-pharmacological interventions to improve dementia care.

The Core builds relationships with health care systems in variety of settings willing to host these trials and identifies priority areas for dementia care in these settings. Through the Project Planning Grants program, the Core fosters partnerships between investigators and HCS to enable the development of rigorous ePCT protocols to address those priority areas. The Core also enables the application of electronic health records and other real world data structures to conduct ePCTs. The Core helps build investigator capacity through IMPACT’s various training opportunities and develops and disseminates knowledge to advance best practices and methodologies in the design and conduct of ePCTs in dementia specifically related to use of data platforms and health care system organization.