The competition was open for eighteen months and was promoted through social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as diabetic websites and online medical and business journals. “In the medical field we tend to think of using the resources within our community,” says Stephen F. Wright, President and CEO of CHRISTUS Health regions in Louisiana, “but why can’t we take a problem and say to the world, ‘help us solve this problem?’ We wanted to see if there were people out there, not necessarily medical professionals that would come up with innovative approaches.” (To learn more, click here!)
First Place:
Button Systems Incorporated, Vermont – Peter Schickler, CEO. Button Systems’ chronic disease management experience relies upon a registry with key patient data elements that, when collected, form the basis of the follow-up and analytical reporting. The reports help providers identify and intervene with patients at the point-of-care who are most likely to develop costly, debilitating, diabetes-related complications.
Second Place:
Contagion Health, LLC, San Francisco, California – Jen McCabe, CEO. Contagion Health utilizes a custom build platform, white label version of the socially contagious virtual, web-based healthy decision platform currently in live beta at http://getupandmove.me. This allows a social networking solution that utilizes “social interventions” in the form of person-to-person “challenges” to motivate healthier behaviors.
The CHRISTUS Heritage: In 1999, two historic Catholic charities became one, forming
CHRISTUS
Health (facility map) and creating a unique purpose in the modern
health care market — to take better care of people. Ranked among
the top 10 Catholic health systems in the United States by size, the
CHRISTUS Health system includes more than 40 hospitals and facilities
in six American states and Mexico, with assets of more than $4.1 billion.
The Mission: Today, we at CHRISTUS St.Frances Cabrini Hospital have a
new purpose — a mission to end diabetes.
However, no one can do this alone, and so we are inviting you to work
with us on this special mission. CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital held an international contest and inviting inventors, entrepreneurs,
and researchers from around the world to participate. The rules were
simple: Develop and submit a proposal for a program that will aid
in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes in a rural
area such as central Louisiana. The program wouldd need to track
results and outcomes within a budget of $200,000.
The Prizes: The
first place winner(s) will be awarded a cash prize of $20,000. The second
place winner will receive a cash prize of $15,000 and the third place
winner will win a cash prize of $5,000.
