April 3, 2018
In comments submitted yesterday, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) called on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to declare that all data generated through its grants align with FAIR data principles. It is not enough that the NIH commit to FAIR data principles, the nation’s experts in health and biomedical informatics contend, the NIH must require that grantees also align to such principles as a condition of funding.