Award: $10000[edit Award]

Goes to: An app that wirelessly connects hardware and targets an identified Veterans health problem[edit What it goes to]

Description[edit]

In collaboration with the Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2), the West Wireless Health Institute is issuing a call to arms challenge to all innovators, bright ideaers, futurists, and all around smart experts to design an award-winning wireless device or application targeting a problem specific to the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding care for our Veteran population.

The Veterans Health Wireless Innovation Challenge aims to accelerate innovations in wireless health that have the potential to significantly lower costs while addressing the most pressing unmet needs in health care delivery for the nation’s veterans. All submissions must be in keeping with WWHI’smission of lowering health care costs.
The challenge asks for innovators to create an original app or hardware device for either Android or Apple OS cellular phone technology in any combination of one or more M2M technology; such as physiological or environmental sensors, gyroscopes/accelerometers, cellular based cameras, video teleconferencing, Bluetooth, GPS, or a medical device.

Eligibility[edit]

Project Parameters
1. Projects must employ an original app or M2M hardware design capable of wirelessly connecting hardware to a cell phone (or some type of wireless transmission) that will connect both patient and clinician for sharing clinical or other data pertinent to a patients’ care.
2. The app cannot have been previously published in any app store.
3. If the project features a hardware (M2M) solution, the device must not have been previously marketed or sold for usage and be of an original, innovative design, or configuration and observe the following design criteria typical of remote patient monitoring including:
a.Low-power design. The system is expected to require infrequent battery charge/replacement.
b.High wearability. Form factor is essential to allow nonintrusive use of the device.
c.High impact. Significance of the project for veterans health.
Examples of M2M solutions include:
• Video, camera, or some type of image technology transmitted through wireless means connecting patient and clinician via a mobile device
• Sensor technology that is applied to an individual, environment or both, to obtain data utilized as part of the app and transmitted and shared with patient and clinician
4. The app or device must be designed to also push data (wirelessly) about the user or device in order to gauge the effectiveness of the app/device or sensor technology. Data derived from the app will become part of a larger data base project to improve health outcomes in the United States.
5. Competition is open to any individuals, companies (both profit and non-profit), students, and university teams based in the United States. Only U.S. citizens are eligible to win the prize.
6. Judging is conducted by a panel of experts to be selected by VAi2 and WWHI. All selections are final.
7. The Winner shall receive a cash prize of $10,000.00 and may have the opportunity to pilot the winning technology within a Veterans Affairs clinical setting.
8. The West Wireless Health Institute is not a grant making organization, and the cash prize for this challenge is not a grant.

Judging Criteria[edit]

Judging criteria:
a. Uniqueness of the engineered solution (hardware, sensors, app, or overall project design)
b. Potential for implementation in a VA clinical setting as a health technology solution
c. Ability to accurately, concisely and securely gather and transmit health related data for use by a clinician

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