This post originally appeared on the Project HealthDesign Blog.
Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office
From new PHR platforms to creative mobile health applications, the opportunities for improving health and health care seem to multiply daily. We hope to see more developers and designers become passionate innovators in the health and health care space. Participating in developer challenges such as these upcoming opportunities might help you catch the vision!
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Challenge
Aligning Forces Challenge
- The challenge: Develop an application that builds on the publicly available Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) health care quality measures and helps patients access better care.
- Requirements and desired functionality: The application should incorporate AF4Q health care quality measures, allow patients easy access to inpatient and outpatient health resources, and guide them through the decision-making process.
- End of submission period: December 31
- Learn more or register for the challenge.
ONC i2 Challenges
One in a Million Hearts Challenge
- The challenge: Develop an application that empowers individuals to improve their heart health.
- Requirements and desired functionality: The application should educate individuals about the Million Hearts initiative, allow individuals to input information about their current health state, use the health data they provide to generate targeted recommendations about how to improve their heart health, and be capable of transferring the individual’s information to an EHR using Direct specifications.
- End of submission period: December 31
- Learn more or register for the challenge.
popHealth Tool Development Challenge
- The challenge: Create an application that leverages the popHealth open source framework and provides greater insight into patient populations (e.g., help clinicians improve patient safety, help providers engage patients and families, etc.).
- End of submission period: January 20
- Learn more or register for the challenge.
Reporting Device Adverse Events Challenge
- The challenge: Develop an application that facilitates the reporting of adverse events related to patient use of medical devices in hospitals, clinics and home environments.
- Requirements and desired functionality: The application should allow patients to record adverse events easily, integrate with EHR and PHR platforms, capture patient demographic information, capture information about the medical device, be platform-agnostic, and employ NwHIN standards.
- End of submission period: February 3
- Learn more or register for the challenge.
popHealth Tool Development Challenge
- The challenge: Work with a public health expert to co-create an application makes it easy for users to use the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) in meaningful ways.
- End of submission period: March 9
- Learn more or register for the challenge.
Libby Dowdall 