Healthcare X Prize
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"Empower and engage individuals and communities in a way that dramatically improves health value."[edit ]
Last modified: August 16, 2009, 11:51PM
Award: $10000000[edit Award]
Goes to: Optimal Health Pardigm[edit What it goes to]
Description[edit]
The American health care system requires fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the nation. An Initial Prize Design for a proposed $10+ Million Healthcare X PRIZE was announced on April 14, 2009 by the X PRIZE Foundation, WellPoint, Inc. and the WellPoint Foundation. This first-of-its kind competition will focus on reinventing the health care system in a bold, measurable and scientific fashion to catalyze dramatic improvements in health and health care value in the United States.
The Grand Challenge for the Healthcare X PRIZE is to create an optimal health paradigm that empowers and engages individuals and communities in a way that dramatically improves health value. The proposed prize is designed to improve health value by more than 50 percent in a 10,000 person community during a three year trial. In order to effectively compete for this prize, teams will need to fundamentally change health financing, care delivery, and create new incentives that will result in achieving the required improvements in health value for both individuals and communities.
Thank you for your interest. We invite you to get actively involved during the public comment phase to help refine the prize design to ensure maximum impact.