Wearable technology shows promise in providing information that can be used to create biomarkers of various diagnostic groups that have relevance to mental illness. However, there are barriers related to multiple and sometimes proprietary data standards that make data aggregation difficult from existing devices. The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support the creation of standards for data as well as metadata and related coordination activities that will allow researchers to easily access data from personal tracking devices and integrate those data for subsequent data analysis. The recipients will be expected to partner with device manufacturers, the researcher community, and other interested parties such as ethics experts if the effort is going to be successful. It is expected that the recipient will create standards for personal tracking device data that serve the same purpose as the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) or Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) formats and standards do for medical image files. Those medical image file standards have allowed secondary data analysis and have resulted in many software packages and workflows for secondary data analysis.
Deadlines:
PAR-24-250 Expiration Date June 11, 2026
Sponsor Institute/Organizations: National Institutes of Health
Address: National Institutes of Health; 31 Center Drive; MSC 2220; Bethesda; MD 20892-2220; USA
Jun 10, 2025
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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Address: National Institutes of Health; 31 Center Drive; MSC 2220; Bethesda; MD 20892-2220; USA
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