popHealth Developer Challenge Offers Cash Award in February 2012

[Rookwood, Renee L]

Greetings,

 

On behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator, and Health 2.0, the popHealth team is pleased to announce the “popHealth Tool Development Challenge” is now open! 

 

The first place prize will be a cash award of $75,000 and 2 free passes to the Health 2.0 spring conference and 2 free passes to the conference where the winning submission is demoed.  Second place prize will be a cash award of $20,000, and third place will be an award of $5,000.

 

To participate, developers will need to create software extensions that leverage the popHealth open source framework, existing functionality, data standards, or sample datasets to improve patient care and provide greater insight into patient populations.  The submission deadline ends February 3, 2012, with awards being announced on February 20th, 2012.

 

See the ONC i2 Challenge website for entry rules and details:

 

http://www.health2challenge.org/pophealth-tool-development-challenge/

 

There will be a webinar meeting, with audio dial-in, for any interested participants to ask questions of the popHealth development team on Thursday October 20th, at 1:00 p.m. EST:

 

To attend the audio conference:

 

1. Dial 703-983-6338 (x36338)

2. When prompted enter the following credentials

                - Meeting ID: 540600

                - Meeting Password: 540600540

 

To Attend the WebEx conference:

 

1. Visit: http://audioconference.mitre.org

2. Enter 540600 into the empty field and click Attend Meeting

3. Enter the password 540600540

4. Accept any security warnings you receive and wait for the Meeting Room to initialize.

5. If MeetingPlace Collaboration Window does not automatically open, press connect.

 

Any questions or issues should be sent to the popHealth open source project discussion list at ta...@projectpophealth.org

 

Good luck to all participants,

 

Renee L. Rookwood, RN, BSN, MS | Sr. Health Information Consultant

The MITRE Corporation | Center for Transforming Health

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