Technology area

Health-services technology

1,348 funded awards, $858.8M total, FY2023-FY2025.

Data current as of 2026-05-11

Pattern read

Health services technology is the largest tag in the dataset by record count at 1,348 / $859M. The IC mix tells you what 'health services' has meant in practice: NIA at 220 (caregiving, dementia care, aging-in-place tools), NHLBI at 144 (cardiac rehab, hypertension management), NIDA at 119 (substance use service-delivery tools), with NIMH and NCI close behind. R44 at 778 dominates dramatically. This is the most R44-heavy tag in the dataset, reflecting the fact that most awardees here came in with workable Phase I results and rolled into Phase II quickly. Median award is $545K. Concentration is very low at 3.0%. STTR (R41) participation at 111 is modest.

Fit indicators

  • Largest tag in the dataset (1,348 records). The space is broad and many indications have been funded.
  • R44-dominant by a wide margin. The Phase I-to-Phase II pipeline has clearly worked here historically.
  • Low concentration (3.0%); no single firm dominates.

Watchouts

  • 'Health services' bundles care-coordination platforms, remote-monitoring tools, patient-engagement apps, and telehealth infrastructure. Reviewers will want a specific clinical workflow.
  • NIA's high count is age-population work specifically. Don't assume NIA reads any product framed as 'health services tech'.

Where the money sat, by Institute / Center

IC funding decisions are set by portfolio priorities, NOFO scope, and program-officer judgment. These are funded records, not predictions of future funding.

ICNameRecordsMedian award
AG (NIA) National Institute on Aging 220 $713,422
HL (NHLBI) National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 144 $498,607
DA (NIDA) National Institute on Drug Abuse 119 $325,001
MH (NIMH) National Institute of Mental Health 116 $460,279
CA (NCI) National Cancer Institute 108 $833,947
HD (NICHD) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 94 $594,126
MD (NIMHD) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 93 $397,562
AI (NIAID) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 88 $879,391
GM (NIGMS) National Institute of General Medical Sciences 58 $700,000
NS (NINDS) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 53 $840,440
DK (NIDDK) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 49 $652,866
ES (NIEHS) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 32 $441,810
NR (NINR) National Institute of Nursing Research 25 $378,893
EY (NEI) National Eye Institute 20 $812,643
AA (NIAAA) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 19 $390,454
TR (NCATS) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences 18 $802,241
DC (NIDCD) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 15 $712,471
EB (NIBIB) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 15 $893,313
DE (NIDCR) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research 13 $320,606
HG (NHGRI) National Human Genome Research Institute 13 $399,593
AR (NIAMS) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases 13 $796,748
LM (NLM) National Library of Medicine 11 $420,047
AT (NCCIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health 11 $293,920
OD NIH Office of the Director 1 $395,558

FOA / NOFO routes

Opportunity number prefixes: PA = Parent Announcement (broad, omnibus, multiple ICs), PAR = Parent with Special Review, PAS = Parent with set-aside funds, RFA = Request for Applications (targeted, single-IC, fixed budget). Status unknown means the pipeline has not verified whether the FOA is currently posting awards; the SBIR omnibus has been in reauthorization gap during this window. See the glossary for full definitions.

OpportunityStatusRecords
PA-22-176 unknown 175
PA-23-230 unknown 143
PA-22-177 unknown 91
PA-21-259 unknown 85
PAS-22-196 unknown 68
PA-23-231 unknown 57
PA-24-245 unknown 57
PAS-19-316 unknown 50
PA-21-260 unknown 48
PA-20-272 unknown 41
PA-22-178 unknown 35
PA-23-232 unknown 33
PA-20-260 unknown 29
PAR-22-073 unknown 29
PA-20-262 unknown 25
PA-24-246 unknown 23
PA-23-233 unknown 21
PA-21-262 unknown 18
RFA-MD-23-003 unknown 18
PA-21-345 unknown 16
RFA-DA-23-021 unknown 15
PA-22-179 unknown 14
RFA-DA-19-019 unknown 13
PAR-20-244 unknown 13
PA-24-247 unknown 13
RFA-MD-24-006 unknown 11
RFA-MD-22-004 unknown 11
PA-18-579 unknown 11
RFA-HL-23-009 unknown 8
PA-21-261 unknown 8
PA-20-265 unknown 8
PA-19-272 unknown 8
RFA-CA-22-025 unknown 7
PA-25-212 unknown 7
PA-18-566 unknown 6
PAR-21-266 unknown 5
RFA-MD-23-002 unknown 4
RFA-MH-21-112 unknown 4
PAS-22-197 unknown 4
PA-20-047 unknown 4
RFA-MD-22-003 unknown 4
PAS-19-317 unknown 4
RFA-DA-22-001 unknown 4
RFA-DA-24-018 unknown 4
PA-20-261 unknown 4
RFA-AG-21-025 unknown 4
RFA-NS-23-006 unknown 3
PAR-23-213 unknown 3
PA-18-573 unknown 3
RFA-CA-22-017 unknown 3
PAR-24-131 expired 3
PA-24-248 unknown 3
RFA-DA-23-018 unknown 3
RFA-NS-20-010 unknown 3
RFA-DA-19-020 unknown 3
RFA-HL-23-008 unknown 2
RFA-DA-25-052 unknown 2
RFA-AG-24-042 unknown 2
RFA-CA-23-035 unknown 2
PA-24-253 unknown 2
PA-19-273 unknown 2
RFA-MD-21-006 unknown 2
RFA-ES-21-008 unknown 2
RFA-DA-19-021 unknown 2
PA-18-871 unknown 2
RFA-CA-21-036 unknown 2
RFA-CA-21-001 unknown 2
RFA-ES-22-006 unknown 2
PA-19-271 unknown 2
PAR-20-239 unknown 2
PAR-18-326 unknown 2
RFA-NS-23-007 unknown 2
PA-23-189 unknown 2
PAR-18-801 unknown 2
RFA-ES-20-016 unknown 2
RFA-MD-21-005 unknown 2
RFA-DA-25-051 unknown 1
RFA-DA-25-047 unknown 1
RFA-DA-25-048 unknown 1
PAR-21-265 unknown 1
PAR-24-106 unknown 1
RFA-ES-24-003 unknown 1
RFA-DA-21-015 unknown 1
PAR-21-114 unknown 1
PAR-20-129 unknown 1
RFA-DA-24-017 unknown 1
PA-24-254 unknown 1
RFA-NS-20-009 unknown 1
PA-19-270 unknown 1
RFA-ES-22-004 unknown 1
RFA-NS-20-011 unknown 1
PA-18-575 unknown 1
PAR-21-225 unknown 1
PAR-23-032 unknown 1
PA-21-071 unknown 1

Comparable funded projects

ApplIDFYICTitleOrganizationAmount
10710321 2025 NS Wearable Sensor and Digital Technologies for Quantitative Assessment and Remote Monitoring of Symptoms in Myasthenia Gravis BIOSENSICS, LLC $973,917
10838505 2025 MD Lowering the burden of medical translation by enabling healthcare professionals as human editors of machine translations TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC $785,654
10868573 2025 MD Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Bilingual Children's Stories to Address Nutrition and Health in Indigenous Communities TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC $712,180
10923432 2025 MD MiREA, a mHealth intervention to Reduce Health Disparities by Improving Equitable Access to Mandated College Students with Problematic Alcohol and Marijuana Use MHEALTH SYSTEMS, INC $296,519
10939434 2025 MD The Language Equity and Accessibility Performance (LEAP) Initiative: Addressing disparities through a paradigm shift in language services operations TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC $981,286
10953826 2025 HL A non-invasive, automated platform for hemodynamic assessment of patients at risk of heart failure or pulmonary hypertension SENSYDIA CORPORATION $1,607,970
11001563 2025 TR Advancing emergency medicine training with remote stereoscopic livestream technology IMMERSIVE TECH, INC. $846,089
11005333 2025 AA Characterization of a novel non-hallucinogenic psilocybin derivative for alcohol use disorder TERP LIFE, LLC $320,263

Review panels that have appeared on these records

Panel names use NIH's Center for Scientific Review (CSR) format: a 2-4 letter study-section code plus a meeting-cycle number in parentheses (e.g. ISB (12) = Instrumentation and Systems Development, cycle 12). SBIR/STTR review groups are temporary, meeting-specific bodies. The names below describe panels that have appeared on the cited funded-project records, not where future applications get assigned. NIH assigns panels at the time of submission based on the application content.

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