Project Grant R43LM013034

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Program award to Medimint, a Minority-Owned Business and Woman-Owned Small Business, provides $275,000 in funding to develop a blockchain-powered medical image sharing platform. The project aims to address challenges with current medical image sharing practices, which often rely on outdated physical media due to interoperability issues, high costs, and security risks associated with digital data...

This $254,091 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support the development of a healthcare data integration platform using blockchain and artificial intelligence. Emtruth, Inc. will receive funding to advance foundational technologies for searching and retrieving heterogeneous data secured in blockchain across a distributed data platform. The company will normalize blockchain data into more granular blocks to simplify integration and...

This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the development of a blockchain ecosystem and artificial intelligence to optimize prior authorization processes in the pharmaceutical industry. Red Oak Strategic LLC will leverage distributed ledger technology to create an encrypted, decentralized patient data sharing network among prescribers, payers, and patients. Smart contracts will automate criteria fulfillment, facilitate machine learning-based...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Softhread Inc., a woman-owned technology company, a $984,905 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. This SBIR Phase II project expands upon previous Phase I work to develop a "zero-trust" blockchain-based solution for securing the confidential exchange of precision health data such as advanced directives and life-sustaining treatment plans. The technology combines blockchain,...

This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure supports the development of a novel zero-trust and traceable data-sharing infrastructure called WEB3DB. The project aims to address limitations of the current centralized data ecosystem by empowering individuals to control and manage access to their personal health IoT data. Key research outcomes include: (1) novel decentralized identity management and access control...

This $2 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Secretary Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will support the development of equity-enhancing patient-generated health data technologies. Awarded under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects program, the funding will be administered by Medstar Health Research Institute Inc. Over the five-year period from September 2022 to September 2027, the awardee will...

This $255,837 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of a blockchain-driven, distributed memory computational platform for industrial analytics by Blockalytics LLC. The platform will enable predictive analytics on geographically distributed industrial data without data movement or reliance on cloud-based solutions. Blockalytics will integrate blockchain smart contracts with distributed memory frameworks to design primitives similar to MapReduce for blockchain and...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds the development of a personalized consumer health guidance platform by Rift Valley Health Co. The platform will analyze an individual's sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mental health data from wearables and smart home devices to generate a baseline health profile and recommendations. Both objective biometric data and subjective user inputs will be integrated to draw meaningful correlations and...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $1,997,806, granted by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (CFDA 93.345 - Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology), aims to develop innovative solutions that enhance electronic health record (EHR) data utilization, clinical knowledge integration, and nationwide health data sharing capabilities. The primary awardee, The Trustees of Columbia...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $165,000, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to enhance eventual data consistency in large-scale, multidimensional scientific computing through the development of a lightweight in-memory distributed ledger system. The project, led by Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (dba Georgia Health Sciences), a non-profit research organization,...