Partners

Challenge Supported By:
HHS

Partners:
We’d like to thank our partners for their continued support of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.

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Consortium
The consortium is made up of organizations hosting related challenges and competitions in healthcare. We think these efforts are really great and hope you check them all out. Winners of Consortium Member challenges may be featured at the Health 2.0 Conference.

NLM Show Off Your Apps Challenge The National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites people to “show off their apps”. NLM is challenging people to create innovative software applications that use the Library’s vast collection of biomedical data, including downloadable data sets, application programming interfaces (APIs), or software tools. Entries must be submitted by August 31, 2011. Details about the contest can be found on challenge.gov at. For more information contact, NLMDataChallenge@nlm.nih.gov.

CDC Flu App Challenge Applications and technology make it easier to communicate critical information about the flu and its impact. We’re looking for an innovative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and/or educate consumers on ways to prevent and treat the flu. They’re challenging you to create new ways to use technology, be it for the web, a personal computer, a mobile handheld device or any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet.

HealthGamesCamp SF is an event focused on how games can be used to drive positive change in health behaviors by bringing together multi-disciplinary teams for collaborative learning and co-creation. The entire event is structured as a multi-level game out of which a variety of games or game prototypes are produced. As we immerse ourselves in games we voluntarily change our behaviors in order to win, and old habits melt away over time. Together, we will learn, have fun, and create practical game solutions for real problems!

Ashoka’s Changemakers is a community of action that connects social entrepreneurs around the globe to share ideas, inspire, and mentor each other. Through its online collaborative competitions and open-source process, Changemakers.com is one of the world’s most robust spaces for launching, discussing, and funding ideas to solve the world’s most pressing social problems. Changemakers builds on Ashoka’s three decade history and belief that we all have the ability to be a Changemaker.

SMArt, (an ONC-funded SHARP project led by Ken Mandl and Isaac Kohane), seeks to recruit and support new Health 2.0 innovators by providing a common interface to multiple HIT platforms. The SMArt Health App $5,000 Challenge is to develop web apps that use the SMArt API to provide value to patients, providers, researchers, and public health. Examples of such applications are medication management tools, health risk detectors, and e-prescribing applications. The challenge will open in March 2011, but please learn more and register your interest now at www.SMArtPlatforms.org

Eyebeam Art + Technology Center’s The Great Urban Hack is a a two-day, overnight, open-source hackathon that celebrates New York City. Design, report on, code and create projects to help New Yorkers get the information they need while strenghtening a sense of community.

BodyShock the Future is a call for ideas to improve global health over the next 3-10 years by transforming our bodies and lifestyles.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) will be convening a community roundtable focusing on a specific health challenge and related dataset to develop an API, services, and user experience that will be incorporated into the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.