Phase 2 Winners Chosen in ‘Move Health Data Forward’ Challenge
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced five winners in Phase 2 of the “Move Health Data Forward” Challenge, a contest to develop solutions to help with the flow of health information.
Winning submissions will now move on to the challenge’s last phase to develop applications that will allow individuals to share their personal health information safely and securely with their providers, family members or other caregivers.
Phase 1 required applicants to submit their plans describing how they would develop solutions to help with the flow of health information. The 10 Phase 1 winners were awarded $5,000 each and moved on to Phase 2, which required participants to demonstrate a viable solution to achieve those goals by allowing for the safe and secure exchange of consumer or provider health records. Each Phase 2 winner below will receive a $20,000 award:
CedarBridge Group LLC: CareApprove is a smart phone app that allows patients to grant—and revoke—permission for providers to access, send, or receive health information electronically. Providers can use the CareApprove software plugin with their electronic health record (EHR) system to stay connected with their patients through the CareApprove mobile app and to communicate with one another through a secure messaging system.
EMR Direct: The HealthToGo solution facilitates the deployment of applications capable of leveraging multiple data sources in consumer mediated health data exchange. This minimizes the number of identities to maintain and grant data to store, allowing consumers to easily manage health data sharing, and improving the accessibility of patient health data while maintaining its privacy and security.
Foxhall Wythe LLC: Docket is a secure system for users to seamlessly store and share data with trusted care professionals, eliminating the need for tedious paper-based patient intake processes. This solution promotes HIPAA compliance through a user-managed access approach and end-to-end encryption for all records as well as interoperability through industry-standard FHIR messages. Authorization is accomplished via Quick Response (QR) code scan and an explicit OAuth 2.0 handshake.
Live and Leave Well LLC: Live and Leave Well is a complete solution that provides both a consumer mediated exchange of end of life plans; and creates a transportable package of data about that person’s end of life plans that can be scored for goodness and shared with multiple systems using a combination open APIs and direct integration.
Lush Group Inc.: The HealthyMePHR system empowers patients by giving them the ability to share, and authorize access to, their electronic health records. With a resource server providing HEART-enabled data, an authorization server to support patient policy, and a client to allow authorized users to view a patient’s records, HealthyMePHR addresses several key challenges facing patients and providers today. Additional planned features will continue to accelerate patient clinical data sharing, improving health and reducing the cost of healthcare.
The five Phase 2 winners now move to Phase 3, which will award $50,000 for up to two winners based on the participant’s ability to implement their solution through the development of a mobile or web-based application.
