“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a slew of new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) initiatives on July 28 to enable innovative research objectives through technologies such as AI and cloud.”
“SBIR and STTR are competitive research and development programs that push small businesses to develop high-tech, innovative solutions to government goals. NIH and CDC released dozens of new project proposals for small businesses to apply to, including many health IT advancements and telehealth-inspired technologies.”
“The National Center for Advancing Translational Services (NCATS), a branch of NIH, is seeking both virtual reality patient care and an autonomous laboratory through the SBIR and STTR programs.”
“The virtual reality care environment would enable remote rare disease therapy and automatically collect health metrics and data. NCATS wrote that while current video conferencing capabilities enable communication, they lack the interpersonal connection necessary to rare disease therapy. The project would fund one to three ‘high-quality teletherapy and remote monitoring’ in a virtual reality environment projects at up to $2,325,000 over two phases…” Read the full article here.
Source: Dozens of SBIR/STTR Proposals From NIH, CDC Look to Innovate Health IT – By Katie Malone, July 29, 2020. MeriTalk.
