Building the infrastructure to accelerate evidence-generating mobile and wireless health research: National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation perspectives

Dana L Wolff-Hughes; Richard Conroy; James J McClain; Wendy J Nilsen; William T Riley

doi:10.1093/tbm/ibx036

Building the infrastructure to accelerate evidence-generating mobile and wireless health research: National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation perspectives

Transl Behav Med. 2018 Mar 1;8(2):295-298. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibx036.

Authors

Dana L Wolff-Hughes¹, Richard Conroy², James J McClain², Wendy J Nilsen³, William T Riley¹

Affiliations

¹ Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ National Science Foundation, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, Arlington, VA, USA.

Abstract

This article describes current NIH and NSF initiatives to develop and evaluate mobile and wireless health infrastructures to further behavioral and social sciences research.

MeSH terms

Foundations*
Health Services Research / organization & administration*
Humans
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)*
Science*
Telemedicine / organization & administration*
United States