$10 Million for your idea?

Do you have an idea for changing healthcare in the US that will improve the health value of a 10,000 person community by more than 50% in 3yrs? The X PRIZE Foundation is creating a competition where the team to achieve this first will be awarded $10 Million.

Note: This is the same X-Prize foundation that awarded $10M to the first team to build a privately funded spaceship to deliver a 3 person crew to space x2 within 2wks. http://space.xprize.org/ansari-x-prize

From the Website:
The Grand Challenge for the Healthcare X PRIZE is to create an optimal health paradigm that empowers and engages individuals and communities in a way that dramatically improves health value. The proposed prize is designed to improve health value by more than 50 percent in a 10,000 person community during a three year trial. In order to effectively compete for this prize, teams will need to fundamentally change health financing, care delivery, and create new incentives that will result in achieving the required improvements in health value for both individuals and communities.

http://www.xprize.org/future-x-prizes/healthcare-x-prize

Apologies....

My apologies for not keeping this blog updated despite all the happenings in healthcare reform over the past few weeks. We had a planned "unannounced" visit by the Joint Commission last week that I had to prepare for (Disease Specific Care Certification).

I will scan through the 300 unread items in my RSS feed and post any relevant happenings to keep you updated.

Ed.