Awards, Challenges and Prizes

CONSUMER SHARK TANK

Applications due by 4/8

Creating market ready applications that turn health data into meaningful and useful tools for consumers and patients is no cake walk. Do you have what it takes?

In this closing plenary session, a select group of tech entrepreneurs will compete on the main Health Datapalooza stage to convince judges and audience members that they have the best consumer product.

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Finalist Shark Tank contestants will be selected through preliminary vetting that considers the following criteria:
  • appropriate and meaningful use of data source(s)
  • relevance / utility to patient/consumer/caregiver end user(s)
  • importance / potential for health impact
  • product accessibility / cost
  • appeal, attention to health literacy, and ease of user interface / design
Closing Plenary Shark Tank
Up to five finalists will get a shot to present their innovation in a rapid fire Shark Tank pitch-fest where judge’s scores and audience voting will combine to send one team home a winner! Be part of the excitement. Apply to be a contestant, share the opportunity with others, or register for Heath Datapalooza to join us in the audience.

Judges:
  • Donna Cryer, Global Liver Institute
  • Wen Dombrowski (Invited), Resonate Health LLC
  • Alex Fair, MedStartr.com
  • Francie Grace, Patient Advocate, Social Media Strategist
  • Lisa Latts, University of California and LML Health Solutions

OPTUM/HHS HEALTH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS DATA CHALLENGE PRIZE

Registration ends 3/25

The integration of data from EMR/EHR systems and claims processing provides the opportunity to develop new methods for healthcare understanding while at the same time enabling us to test established paradigms. Being able to analyze a more complete picture of the patient journey enables healthcare professionals to identify and intervene with patients before their health issues spiral out of control. However, due to the newness and complexity of these assets, organizations continue to struggle with deploying analytic methods that are straightforward for healthcare practitioners to implement at the point of care. The 2016 Optum/HHS Health Code-A-Thon Challenge will develop point-of-care apps/algorithms that leverage integrated data to predict certain health factors and provide a potential means for dissemination at the POC in the area of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Join us at the Health Datapalooza for the full announcement, including code-a-thon dates, timelines, and prize money.

HEALTH DATA LIBERATOR AWARD

The Health Data Liberator Award recognizes extraordinary contributions and leadership in the liberation of health data, helping to accelerate the pace and multiply the volume of data available to innovators in order to foster the creation of products and services to improve health and health care.

THE OPEN SCIENCE PRIZE

The Open Science Prize is a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit. The Prize provides funding to encourage and support the prototyping and development of services, tools or platforms that enable open content — including publications, datasets, codes and other research outputs — to be discovered, accessed and re-used in ways that will advance discovery and spark innovation. It also aims to forge new international collaborations that bring together open science innovators to develop services and tools of benefit to the global research community. This first round of the Prize consists of a two-phase competition. For the first phase, international teams will compete for funding to take new ideas for products or services to the prototype stage, or to further develop an existing early-stage prototype. Up to six prizes of $80,000 each will be awarded to successful teams to develop their innovation over an eight to nine-month period. In the second phase, the phase I prize recipient judged to have the prototype with the greatest potential to advance open science will receive a prize of $230,000. Learn more about the Open Science Prize at www.OpenSciencePrize.org.