The need for large data sets representing an individual patient’s health status requires decision support tools to support rapid and accurate pattern classification and hypothesis testing. Also more effective ways to store and retrieve patient histories are required.
Modeling and simulation technologies can provide the basis for aggregating, analyzing, representing, and making forecasts from large quantities of healthcare data, and at the same time, make the information accessible in multiple ways to many individuals.
The types of information collected by current mobile devices now includes high resolution pictures, videos, tests, geographic locations, and in many cases, text-based annotations. This necessitates the need for mobile devices to perform complex analyses, sometimes using incomplete data sets.
To address this need, the Navy has issued through the SBIR program, a request to develop “Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support” (MIDAS) technologies in order to merge advances in computer science, information technology, and information science. The Navy wants to develop modeling and simulation-based technology capable of running on a handheld device to provide information on health status and/or pre or post injuries.
The Navy’s solicitation is looking for ways to develop MIDAS technologies to provide:
- Data acquisition tools to capture and combine all relevant healthcare information such as images, paper documents, and proteomic/genomic data into a common repository
- Visualization analysis tools to allow users to integrate and interact with the data to generate and test new diagnoses and treatment methodologies
- Applications to detect novel patterns, predict adverse events and conditions, and optimize treatment plans
- Distribution, portability and interoperability between different systems
- Data warehousing, archiving, and retrieval to support continuum of care and EHR data exchange
The Solicitation for MIDAS opens January 15, 2015 and closes February 18, 2015.Go to www.zyn.com/sbir/sbres/sbir/dod/navy/n151-069.htm for information on Solicitation N-151-069.
All of the Navy Solicitation topics and instructions and details on how to submit proposals are available to download at www.dodsbir.net/solicitation/sbir151/default.htm. Next go to Step 2 to view what the Navy last modified on December 23, 2014.
For proposal submission instructions, go to www.dodsbir.net/solictation/sbir151/navy151.pdf. The contact for questions at the Office of Naval Research is Lore-Anne Ponirakis at loreanne.ponirakis@navy.mil.