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Knight Foundation to Launch $2M Health Innovation Challenge To Harness Health Data

by Fred Pennic 08/02/2013 6 Comments

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The Knight Foundation have teamed with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California HealthCare Foundation, Clinton Foundation and Health Data Consortium for a health innovation challenge offering $2 million for innovative use of health data. 

The News Challenge launching on August 19th will call on innovators to answer the question: How might we harness data and information for the health of communities? Some of the ideal types of innovative ideas include:

  • Ideas that make large public datasets useful, e.g. Open Data Institute in the United Kingdom, which helped identify unnecessary spending on name-brand drugs instead of generics;
  • Ideas that help inform healthcare consumers, e.g. a ProPublica app that shows how much individual doctors have been paid by pharmaceutical companies; or goodrx.com, which tracks prescription drug prices nationwide and provides savings;
  • Ideas that leverage personal behavioral data, social media data and/or public data to inform lifestyle choices, e.g. the LIVES restaurant inspection score app; nextstep.io which mashes up fitness data with ambient data; andAsthmapolis, a mashup of data on asthma triggers, such as weather and pollen, with user symptoms; and
  • Ideas that inform local health policy, e.g. the County Health Calculator, which uses statistical data to determine how factors outside the health care system, such as education and income, affect our health.

The challenge will begin with an opening “inspiration” phase when anyone can identify needs, share success stories, post data sets and contribute ideas. Afterwards, the challenge will be open for entries September 3rd through the 17th.

For more, visit www.KnightFoundation.org.

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