Winners to share $20,000 in prize money for best concepts and prototype using Zynx clinical content
Zynx Health™ (@zynxhealth), a market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, announced details of its two-phase Innovation Challenge Contest to encourage the exploration of new use cases that leverage Zynx clinical content to enhance the delivery of patient care and reduce clinical and financial variation. Zynx Health will award a total of $20,000 in prize money to the teams with the best concepts and prototype.
“Our evidence-based clinical content is proven to drive better clinical decision making,” said Jim Connolly, senior vice president of product development for Zynx Health. “With the introduction of our FHIR-enabled API, we’ve made it easier for third-party solution developers and providers to consume our evidence-based clinical content. By sponsoring this challenge, we can help support the solutions to the problems other healthcare technology companies are tackling, and make our clinical content even more valuable. This may include adding additional meta-data and codes to further support interoperability and other evidence-based data to support our mission of healthier lives for all.”
Phase 1 of the Innovation Challenge Contest is open through Dec. 1, 2017. Entries will be judged based on their ability to:
- Enhance the delivery of patient care
- Reduce clinical or financial variation
- Help meet a regulatory requirement
- Work with typical clinical workflows and be interoperable with the typical EHR system
Zynx Health will award Phase 1 prize money to the top four teams as follows: first place, $5,000; second place, $3,000; third place, $2,000; fourth place, $1,000. These four teams then become eligible to expand on their winning concept by creating a prototype for the Phase 2 challenge. A single Phase 2 winner will receive a cash awarded of $9,000.
Complete details on the Zynx Health Innovation Challenge Contest are available at developer.zynx.com.
About Zynx Health
Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, provides healthcare professionals with vital information and processes that guide care decisions and reduce complexity across the entire patient journey in a way that leads to healthier lives for all. Zynx is a pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical solutions that help health systems improve patient outcomes, financial outcomes, clinical engagement and technology performance. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models.
About Hearst Health
The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase, MedHOK, Hearst Health International, Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab (www.hearsthealth.com). The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 84 percent of discharged patients, 177 million insured individuals, 60 million home health visits, and 3.1 billion dispensed prescriptions.