Population health data challenge offers $2M prize

Knight Foundation is teaming with other organizations to offer a challenge competition that will offer $2 million for innovative use of health data to improve the population health of communities.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California HealthCare Foundation, Clinton Foundation and Health Data Consortium will review entries and helped frame the question of the challenge: “How might we harness data and information for the health of communities?”

The organizations want to be surprised by ideas but offer the following suggestions: make large public datasets more useful, find new ways to inform healthcare consumers on drug prices and physician relationships with drug firms, use social media to inform lifestyle choices, and use statistical data to better inform local health policy.

Knight Foundation was formed in 1950 by founders of publishing firm Knight Newspapers to support efforts to strengthen communities.

Find more information on the challenge, which will accept entries Sept. 3 through 17, at newschallenge.org.

 

Beth Walsh,

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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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