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AMA Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge: Winners announced

We are pleased to announce that three teams’ ideas (listed below) for improving the health of the nation were selected as winners of the AMA Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge event. Each team received a share of $50,000 in prizes, as well as access to the AMA’s network of accelerator and entrepreneurship partners.

The challenge, which kicked off in April, asked physicians, residents and medical students across the country to share their innovative solutions for improving the health of the nation. The submissions were required to answer one of the following questions:

  • Making technology work for learning: What innovation would help transform physician education?
  • Advancing digital health: What innovation would help patients live longer, healthier lives?
  • Evolving digital medicine: What innovation would help physicians improve their practice?
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1st Place: $25,000

Twiage: Accelerating Life-Saving Care
by YiDing Yu , MD
Categories: Prehospital Care, Mobile Technology , Health Information Technology
Twiage is a secure, interoperable platform that empowers first responders to share real-time patient data with hospitals to accelerate life-saving emergency care.
Boston
 
 
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2nd Place: $15,000

Light Line Catheter
by Mitchell Barneck, BS Bioengineering
Categories: Medical Device, Infectious Disease , Device Associated Infections
The Light Line catheter employs a novel visible light phototherapy technology to actively disinfect the device while residing within a patient’s body.
Portland
 
 
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3rd Place: $10,000

Web based test technology to detect and diagnose eye disease
by Cynthia Matossian, MD
Categories: Health Information Technology, Medical Device , Diabetes
Ceeable is a mobile digital health technology to detect and diagnose eye disease including AMD and glaucoma. The technology has been clinically validated across the globe on over 3000 patients.
Pennington
 
 
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