By ELIZABETH BROWN
In mid-June, Catalyst launched the Robert Wooden Johnson Basis Emergency Response Innovation Challenges. These Challenges, one for the Normal Public and one for the Well being Care System, requested innovators to develop a well being expertise instrument to help the wants of people in addition to well being care programs affected by a large-scale well being disaster, akin to a pandemic or pure catastrophe.
The Challenges noticed a document variety of functions— practically 125 functions had been submitted to the Normal Public Problem and over 130 functions had been submitted to the Well being Care System Problem. Over the course of a number of months and with the assistance of consultants and trade leaders who evaluated the submissions, these functions had been narrowed down to 5 after which once more till solely three groups per Problem remained. These groups had been:
Emergency Response for the Normal Public Finalists:
- Binformed Covidata– Binformed is a clinically-driven complete desktop + cellular infectious illness, epidemic + pandemic administration instrument concentrating on suppression and containment of illnesses akin to COVID-19.
- CovidSMS– CovidSMS is a textual content message-based platform offering city-specific info and assets to assist low-income communities endure COVID-19.
- Contemporary EBT by Propel– A expertise instrument for SNAP households to handle meals insecurity & financial vulnerability in occasions of disaster.
Emergency Response for the Well being Care System Finalists:
- Path Examine– Path Examine gives privateness first, free, open supply options for public well being to complement handbook contact tracing, visualize scorching spots, and interfaces with citizen-facing privateness first apps.
- Qventus– Qventus is a affected person movement automation answer that applies AI / ML and behavioral science to assist well being programs optimize assets for Covid, create efficient capability, and cut back frontline burnout.
- Tiatros– A psychological well being and social help platform that mixes scientific experience, peer communities and scalable expertise to advance psychological wellbeing and to maintain significant behavioral change.
These six groups competed within the finals, a digital pitch occasion, on November nineteenth in entrance of skilled judging panels, who evaluated the entries on affect, UX/UI, innovation/creativity, scalability and power of presentation. (Additionally re-introduced throughout this occasion was Catalyst’s SourceDB, a well being tech monitoring database – extra on that in a separate weblog submit right here!)
Within the Well being Care System Innovation Problem, judges awarded first, second, and third place to Qventus, Path Examine, and Tiatros, Inc., respectively, with these groups receiving, so as, $25,000, $15,000, and $5,000. Nevertheless, there was a tie for first within the Normal Public Innovation Problem between binformed | covidata and CovidSMS. These two groups break up the primary and second place prizes and obtained $17,500 every, and Contemporary EBT by Propel in third place obtained $5,000.
See the demos from all six groups beneath!
Well being Care System:
Normal Public:
Missed the occasion? View the total recording beneath:
We observe up with the winners of the Challenges in a separate weblog submit right here
To study extra in regards to the two Challenges, please go to the Problem web sites, bit.ly/genpublicresponse and bit.ly/healthcareresponse
Elizabeth Brown is a Program Supervisor at Catalyst @ Well being 2.0