myHealthyPeople Challenge

Challenge Background

Healthy People 2020 is the national agenda for health promotion and disease prevention that outlines a set of health objectives for the US to achieve over a 10-year period. For more than 30 years, Healthy People has been committed to improving the quality of our Nation’s health by producing a framework for public health prevention priorities and actions. Thousands of stakeholders, including all 50 States, hundreds of community-based organizations and companies, all major public health organizations, and over 20 Federal agencies have collaborated over the past three years to make Healthy People 2020 the nationwide grass-roots effort it is today. It is available now at healthypeople.gov.

Challenge Description

Healthy People 2020 is the national agenda for health promotion and disease prevention that outlines a set of health objectives for the US to achieve over a 10-year period. We challenge you to develop an engaging and empowering customized Healthy People 2020 application for Healthy People stakeholders - professionals, advocates, funders and decision makers - who will be using Healthy People to improve the health of the Nation.

Healthy People 2020 is the Nation’s health promotion and disease prevention agenda for the decade, including goals, 40 plus topic areas, and 100s of data-driven objectives and targets.

Now that Healthy People 2020 is launched, each of its thousands of stakeholders is invested in achieving the goal of longer, healthier lives for all Americans. These stakeholders need customizable tools to help them reach this goal in their workplaces and communities.

We are challenging entrepreneurs, developers, health educators, public and clinical service providers, and other end-users to collaborate on the design and development of this application. The winning applications will be featured and the development team credited on healthypeople.gov.

Features could include mash-ups, easy-to-use data visualizations, analytics, reporting, and other novel combinations of national, state and community level health data. The app will enable users to tailor their areas of interest so that the app will automatically download the most current version of their preselected areas. This app will enable myHealthyPeople to be accessible on desktops and/or mobile devices.

Data sets made available for this challenge:

• Healthy People national level objective data can be found in Excel format here.
• Other health data can be found at Community Health Data Initiative Interim Work Page. This site holds a rapidly growing set of data sets including the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI), County Health Rankings, and other health indicators.
• To find supporters for this challenge go to challenge.gov