Florida-based health IT company HealthSteps won first place in the AMA health IT innovation challenge sponsored by Google.
HealthSteps won first place and $25,000 Google Cloud credits as part of Google and AMA’s health IT innovation challenge for its mobile health platform enabling health data exchange and access between patients and providers.
The Gainesville-based health IT company provides patients with mobile devices for more active patient engagement in care management activities. Patients can use the HealthSteps mobile health platform to share their care plans with family members and providers.
Most notably, HealthSteps is designed to give patients and providers access to real-time health data to improve patient health outcomes.
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AMA and Google partnered to launch the health IT innovation challenge in April. The challenge was intended to promote the development of mobile health IT, including wearable devices and applications.
Challenge participants from across the health IT and technology sectors were encouraged to submit mobile health monitoring technology solutions capable of capturing patient-generated health data, transferring the data to medical practices, and transforming data into actionable information for improved patient health outcomes.
Contest submissions closed June 7, 2018.
“The AMA issued the challenge to inspire the creation of novel mobile technology that demonstrates innovative uses of health data to support the long term wellness of patients,” said AMA Chief Medical Information Officer Michael Hodgkins, MD in an AMA press release.
“The top solutions chosen in the AMA Challenge have the potential to be transformational innovations that effectively share meaningful medical data between patients and physicians and create a healthier nation,” he continued.
AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative supported the competition as part of its mission to enable a continuous learning environment and spur developments in interoperability and health IT innovation.
Israel-based I-deal Health came in second place, winning $15,000 Google Cloud credits. I-deal Health submitted a health IT solution that enables patients to visualize their personal risk for diseases, choose goals to reduce this risk, and close the loop between patients and clinicians.
I-deal Health leverages health data exchange to connect patients and providers. The health IT solution also creates individualized treatments from EHR data to allow patients to focus their health management efforts.
Finally, FUTUREASSURE LLC won $10,000 Google Cloud credits for its mobile health IT solution specializing in patient risk assessment. The solution collects clinical and research data to allow providers to assess a patient’s risk prior to surgery.
Providers can integrate the mobile solution directly into clinician workflows to seamlessly predict a patient’s surgical health outcome.
The three winning solutions share a total of $50,000 in Google Cloud credits.
“These winning solutions best demonstrate uses of patient-generated health data for maximum impact on improving physician workflow and clinical outcomes, as well as reducing cost in the health care system,” stated AMA. “All qualified entries will receive an entry prize of $3,000 in Google Cloud credits.”
Thirty-six health IT developers submitted solutions to the innovation challenge. Each solution leveraged patient-generated health data to improve clinician workflows, boost patient health outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs.
The three winning solutions were chosen from a pool of eight semifinalists. Semifinalists pitched their submissions in front of a live audience and a panel of judges in Google’s Cambridge, Massachusetts office.
The challenge was also part of an effort to increase awareness about AMA’s IHMI collaborative to promote health IT innovation.
Proliferating health IT innovation is a top 2018 priority for federal entities including CMS and ONC.
Date: July 9, 2018
Source: EHR Intelligence