The National Institutes of Health aims to identify, potentially develop and then eventually connect a range of digital health solutions to help America assess re-entry risks and other COVID-19 pandemic-driven decisions.
According to a request for information published Tuesday, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Cancer Institute are looking to leverage new technical tools against the novel coronavirus—and they would like to incorporate the de-identified data and other digital assets those solutions generate into an NIH-supported central data hub for researchers.
“In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to protect individuals from coronavirus exposure while allowing society to return to normal function as quickly as possible. At present, we have only the blunt tools of social distancing and quarantine to contain the epidemic,” officials wrote in the RFI. “Novel digital health solutions have the potential to improve care, understanding of health outcomes, and risk factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The health-focused solutions the institutes seek must encompass many data sources, mechanisms that securely protect people’s privacy, and algorithmic or computational tools to promote population health management during and beyond the current global health crisis. The institutes note that this sort of management might include “assessing the readiness of individuals to return to work, ..
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