NSF grant to improve mobile health security
A $10 million National Science Foundation research project will work to improve the patient data security and user confidentiality of mobile health tools.
The five-year Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW) initiative involves researchers across a spectrum of fields, including health policy, healthcare IT and behavioral health, hailing from Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt University, according to an NSF announcement.
"This project tackles many of the fundamental computer science research challenges to providing trustworthy information systems for health and wellness, as sensitive information and health-related tasks are increasingly pushed into mobile devices and cloud-based services," said David Kotz, a Dartmouth College professor of computer science.
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