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to Helping Critically Ill Babies Wins Healthcare IT Challenge
College Park, Md. - An online platform to improve outcomes for sick babies by
better engaging parents in their care drew first place in the
Innovate 4 Healthcare Challenge, a collegiate
competition based on radically improving healthcare through new processes that
are enabled by innovative information technology applications and supported by a
sustainable market strategy.
"NeoStream," developed by graduate students in the Biomedical Informatics
Department in the Stanford University School of Medicine, captured top-prize at
the recent Innovate 4 Healthcare IT Challenge hosted by Center for Health
Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland's Robert
H. Smith School of Business. ::
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Get your team together for the Innovate 4 Healthcare
Challenge!
Design a plan to strengthen patient engagement with healthcare providers
using information technology.
Apply innovation, strategic thinking and
technical inventiveness to win!
- $30,000 in prizes
- Improve health outcomes
- Network with top healthcare industry leaders from around the country
- Final presentation this spring in Washington, DC
Created by the Robert H. Smith School’s Center for Health
Information and Decision Systems(CHIDS) in partnership with our
sponsors, the “Innovate 4 Healthcare Challenge”
will culminate in a final round of presentations at the Smith School’s campus in
Washington D.C. in April, 2012.
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