> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://mhealth-specification.gitbook.io/mhealth-specification/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://mhealth-specification.gitbook.io/mhealth-specification/master.md).

# Introduction

mHealth storage format is a machine and human readable, extensible *physical*, *physiological* and *contextual* data storage format.

* High-frequency raw sensor data stored in hourly files for the ease of distributed/parallel computing
* Annotation and event data stored in formatted csv files
* Scalable to store data of large number of population
* Associated python package for data processing, search \`padar\` in pip

Author: [Qu Tang](http://qutang.github.io/cv/)