Health and Medicine

Biomedical signals (time series)

 * ACQ (AcqKnowledge)
 * BCI2000 (The BCI2000 project)
 * BioSemi (BDF) data format
 * BKR (EEG data format)
 * CFWB (Chart Data File Format)
 * DICOM-Waveform (An extension of Dicom for storing waveform data)
 * ecgML (A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis)
 * EDF/EDF+ (European Data Format)
 * FEF (File Exchange Format for Vital signs, CEN TS 14271)
 * General Data Format for Biosignals
 * GDF v1.x (General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 1.x)
 * GDF v2.x (The General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 2.x)
 * HL7aECG (Health Level 7 v3 annotated ECG)
 * MEF (Multiscale Electrophysiology File Format)
 * OpenXDF (Open Exchange Data Format)
 * SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
 * SIGIF (A digital SIGnal Interchange Format)
 * WFDB (Format of Physiobank)

CPAP and oximeters (sleep apnea treatment)
These devices generally use proprietary data formats. The SleepyHead open-source software can read some of them.


 * ChoiceMMed MD300W1
 * Contec CMS50D
 * DeVilbiss Intellipap
 * Fisher & Paykel Icon
 * Philips Respironics System One
 * ResMed S9
 * Weinmann SOMNOsoft2

Genetic data

 * 23andMe
 * Complete Genomics

See Scientific Data formats for more formats

Health & Fitness Tracking (consumer)

 * Apple Health
 * Apple Health Export
 * Fitbit
 * Google Fit
 * Microsoft Health and Fitness

See also Smartwatch

Medical Imaging

 * Analyze AVW
 * Aperio SVS
 * BioRad confocal image
 * BRIK/HEAD (Voxel data from AFNI programs, dual-file (data and metadata, repectively))
 * DeltaVision
 * DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (.dcm))
 * gii (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, single-file (combined data and meta-data) style)
 * IMG/HDR (ANALYZE or NIfTI voxel data, dual-file (separate data and metadata, respectively))
 * MGH (uncompressed)mgh
 * MGZ (zip-compressed)
 * MINC (Medical Imaging NetCDF format; since version 2.0, based on HDF5 (.mnc))
 * MRC (Medical Research Council)
 * NII (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) voxel data, single-file (combined data and metadata))
 * OME-TIFF (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
 * OME-XML (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
 * OST (Open Spatio-Temporal) (extensible, open alternative for microscope images)
 * SDM (Signed Differential Mapping- brain maps(.sdm))
 * TRK (Vector data describing tracts of neurons, used by TrackVis)

Medical Record Keeping and Transaction Processing

 * Prescription Drug Event (PDE)
 * TIBCO Foresight HIPAA Validator Validation Profile File (APF)

Optical

 * Eyeglass file format (Ross Spencer) - file format invented by digital preservation researcher to demonstrate how to create file formats

Links

 * NHS England patients: how to opt-out from having your health data disclosed
 * NHS data blunders mean you can't trust Care.data