Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses a system for emergency room follow up care and a cost benefit analysis program for health care providers. Innovations will be judged on the basis of their impact on cost quality or access to health care evidence of initial success and the extent to which applicants have created clear dissemination plans. The judging panel will choose finalists who will share and the opportunity to present their ideas at the Forum s invitation only conference in April which attracts senior executives from big pharma for profit and non profit hospitals major insurance companies and several other areas of the health care industry. Senior members of the Harvard faculty will create case studies about each of the finalists and will teach the cases at the conference.
Conference attendees will be expected to provide input on the ideas. It s not just about getting a lot of high level people into one room Hamermesh says. It s about having an impact. The Forum is accepting applications Chinese Overseas America Number Data through September at its Health Acceleration Challenge website. All submissions will be open to the public and include include a comment section. The idea is not only to discover novel ideas but to build on them. To that end public feedback is strongly encouraged including ideas from seemingly unrelated industries. Sometimes the best ideas on how to improve something that already exists come from someone who doesn t have related experience Hamermesh says. Knowledge plus naiveté is a very good combination for innovation. While the Forum is eager to unearth and promote the best innovations in health care the bigger goal is to get other industry organizations to follow suit.
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