SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With only a few weeks left until the deadlines of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge more than 40 teams are putting the final touches on their applications for the 10 prizes. Winners will be announced by Todd Park, CTO of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, at the Health 2.0 Conference on October 7-8, in San Francisco.
Health 2.0 made three new related announcements:
- In the coming weeks there will be two physical code-a-thons in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first is Hacking for Health hosted by HealthTap on September 11. On October 2, the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Live Code-a-thon will be held at Google. At these code-a-thons developers will use government and private-sector health data sets and build prototypes of new health applications.
- Health 2.0 is also looking to the future with a new challenge that will continue after October. With support from HHS, Health 2.0 is announcing the Developer's Challenge for Consumer Apps to Visualize Health Care Quality Measures. The prize is for the best web or mobile application which represents at least one Medicare quality dataset.
- The Blue Button Challenge added a new celebrity, Craig Newmark of Craigslist, to a distinguished panel of judges. President Obama announced, on August 2, that veterans and seniors will be able to view their health data by clicking on a Blue Button that will be on VA.gov and medicare.gov. This challenge asks developers to demonstrate new ways to use that data.
About the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge: The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge was launched on June 2, 2010 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting at the IOM, with support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The goal of the challenge is to bring the Health 2.0 Community together for rapid application development, both online and in physical code-a-thons. For more see www.health2challenge.org
About Health 2.0: The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge technologies in health care, including Online Communities, Search and lightweight Tools for consumers to manage their health and connect to providers online. The next Health 2.0 conference is on October 7-8 in San Francisco, the culmination of Health Innovation Week. For more see www.health2con.com
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