Featured Challenges
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myHealthyPeople Application Developer Challenge
by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
We challenge you to develop an engaging and empowering customized Healthy People 2020 application for Healthy People stakeholders - professionals, advocates, funders and decision makers - who will be using Healthy People to improve the health of t...
$4,000 in prizes
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HBCU Mental Health Promotion Campaign 2011
by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Produce a communication campaign to raise awareness and education about mental health, its impact on the overall well-being of students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and associated impacts on academic performance.
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Consumer Apps to Visualize Health Care Quality
by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge is promoting creation of applications for consumer visualization and mobile health applications of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on health care quality. Datasets are available about important heal...
$2,500 in prizes
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Connecting Kids To Coverage Challenge
by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is challenging the public to help enroll uninsured children in Medicaid or CHIP coverage.
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Enabling Community Use of Data for Cancer Prevention and Control
by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Using data available through the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) and their partners, develop prototype web and/or mobile communication technology applications to enable communities’ use ...
Recent Challenges
Ocular Imaging Challenge
by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
A multidisciplinary call to create an application that improves interoperability among office-based ophthalmic imaging devices, measurement devices, and EHRs.
Seeing My World through a Safer Lens Video Contest
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Create your own video to answer the question: What does injury and violence prevention look like in my community?
Reporting Patient Safety Events
by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
ONC is challenging multi-disciplinary teams to develop an application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events.
ONC Beat Down Blood Pressure Video Challenge
by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Share how you use technology to help “know your numbers” and achieve blood pressure control.
Now Trending: #Health in My Community
by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Following disease trends, 140 characters at a time
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