CHIME National Patient ID Challenge
As electronic health records become more pervasive, the efficient and accurate identification and matching of patients to their personal health information has become an urgent priority. Successfully matching patients with their health records is both a growing challenge and a major threat to patient safety. Currently, there is no universal solution for matching healthcare patients with their unique, personal healthcare information. Ensuring the 100 percent accuracy of every patient’s identity can greatly reduce the risk of preventable medical errors, significantly increase quality of care, and drive out unnecessary costs by reducing inefficiency. First and foremost, patient ID matching is about patient safety, and we need to get it 100% right the first time, and every time. The CHIME National Patient ID Challenge is currently being developed. The purpose of this challenge is to increase the success rate of patient ID matching from 80 to 100 percent.
U.S. Obesity Data Challenge
The Obesity Data Challenge is part of two parallel, prize-based competitions running in the United States and in England, where it is led by National Health Service (NHS) England and their organizing partner, Rewired State. Each country’s challenge participants can utilize and mash up open data to develop new data visualization tools to give communities, local health officials, patients and practitioners new means to improve population health. In the U.S. portion of the challenge, we are seeking solutions that enable public health and health care professionals to help patients and families address the obesity epidemic at a personal and community level.
Aetna Foundation, HHS, & NHIT Collaborative Innovating for the Underserved Business Plan Challenge
This challenge is a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations to compete with their best ideas for products and services that use technology to reduce disparities and address the needs of underserved and minority populations that are hampered by problems that health IT can easily solve such as access to services and information, language barriers and lack of relevant educational programs. This innovative challenge seeks proposals from both non-profit and for-profit teams or entities for leveraging health and communication information technology and data to address one of three key challenges in underserved or vulnerable populations: Access to Services, Childhood Obesity, Connecting Data between Systems.
eHealth Initiative iThrive Innovation Challenge
eHealth Initiative’s iTHRIVE Innovation Challenge is a competition and event series that convenes business leaders, government officials, innovators, investors and promising entrepreneurs looking to shape how health technology can improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. The two phase Challenge invites startups from around the world to submit proposals that tackle healthcare system problems head-on, focusing on the three critical areas of the eHealth Initiative 2020 Roadmap: consumer-oriented health IT; population health management; and interoperability between providers, payers and across the delivery system. If you have ideas about how health technology can improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare, notice gaps in the system that offer easy fixes, or wish to share your vision for better healthcare delivery, join the competition and the conversation.
The Innovators in Healthcare Challenge
This challenge is an open call to all practicing clinicians, residents, and medical students to tell us how you or a colleague are innovating to improve patient care. Five finalists will be selected by a panel of judges and recognized in front of 4,000 of your colleagues at Pri-Med East Annual Conference, September 17–20, 2015 in Boston, MA. Finalists will also be highlighted in the Celebration in Innovations Lounge in the Exhibit Hall and will receive 5 years of free registration for Pri-Med East to help celebrate the 25th anniversary in 2020.