1. Commons Credits Pilot – Overview
CMS ALLIANCE TO MODERNIZE HEALTHCARE
Commons Credits Pilot – Overview

2. An Opportunity for Innovation
Digital Objects such as data, metadata, tools/software or workflows are among the most valuable outputs of modern scientific efforts, but are not shared or re-used optimally.
The traditional paradigm, locally provisioned information technology (IT) resources funded by NIH, cannot keep up with modern data collection. It also impairs sharing and re-use.
Access to scalable storage and compute resources to support research is essential for the continued success of NIH-funded research programs in the face of ever bigger and richer data and informatics.
NIH seeks a method to more sustainably support the needs of the biomedical research community while promoting the FAIR Principles to maximize the impact of previous investments.
FAIR Principles: Findable, Assessable, Interoperable, Reusable

3. Commons Credits Pilot Process Flow
“The Commons”
Signed, conformant vendors
This proposed new funding model is designed to help NIH better support biomedical investigators in obtaining computational resources to perform novel research on a “pay-go” basis.

4. Considerable Diversity of Investigator Participants
A wide array of institutes have PIs who have submitted Credits requests (test cycle and first open cycle combined) – more than 35 institutions are represented.
The participants reference NIH grants from 18 of the 27 NIH Institutes, showing diversity of interest at that level as well.