Novel Presentation of Health Related Data

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The expanded use of electronic medical records, personal health records, home monitoring devices, and other digital devices generate massive amounts of digital health related information. In order to use that information effectively, we need more innovative and novel ways to visualize the data. Clinicians and managers need to be better able to discern patterns in the data to make information contained in the data more useful for managing individual patients and for populations of patients. The wide range of data types and the diversity of users of the data add further complexity. The data is of all forms: text, numerical values, wave forms, audio, video and still images and the users of the data include patients, clinicians, administrators, and public health professionals. This Program Announcement is anticipated to lead to solutions that demonstrate new and novel presentations of complex medical data to allow for insights into trends and discern patterns in the data. This Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity invites proposals from U.S. based businesses, academic research institutions, and multi-center collaborations, which may include international partners, to create novel representations of health data and generate new knowledge that supports healthcare improvements for DoD personnel and beneficiaries. Preliminary research proposals (i.e. pre-proposals) are required and will provide the basis for invited full proposals.

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