NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Smart and Connected Health

The Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have identified Smart and Connected Health as a program focus. In particular, the present initiative covers the need to development the next generation of health and healthcare research through advances in the understanding of and applications in information science, technology, behavior, cognition, sensors, robotics, bioimaging, and engineering. See: NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Smart and Connected Health: NSF-13-543 http://nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13543/nsf13543.htm