It’s a good weekend to enter the Data, Design, Diabetes Challege.
On June 9, 2011, sanofi-aventis U.S. announced the “sanofi-aventis U.S. Innovation Challenge: Data, Design, Diabetes” at the National Institute of Health’s Health Data Initiative Forum. The challenge, which launched on July 1, integrates open data with a human-centered view into diabetes, and will award $220,000 in total prize money.
The challenge is designed for fast learning, so that innovators can create the needed service solutions for people living with diabetes. It brings together the richness of open data sets made available on healthdata.gov, the values of human-centered design, and the leading edge methodology of the top innovation accelerators.
Until July 31st, innovators are asked to submit their concepts on www.datadesigndiabetes.com.
In early August, an independent panel of expert judges (listed below) will review the submissions and five semi-finalists will be awarded $20,000 and professional mentoring to turn the concept into a prototype. In early September, the five teams will present at a demo day. An open panel and our judges will select two finalists to receive an additional $10,000 to pilot their prototype in a real life diabetes community. The findings and learnings from this exercise will inform the selection of a final winner who will receive an award of $100,000, along with a one- month stay here at RockHealth to turn their prototype into a full, real solution for people living with diabetes.
Judges include:
- Jeff Hammerbacher – Founder and Chief Scientist, Cloudera
- Manny Hernandez – Founder, TuDiabetes
- Hilary Mason – Chief Scientist, Bit.ly
- Todd Park – CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Sue Siegel – General Partner, MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Ida Sim – Director, UCSF Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics
- Dennis Urbaniak – VP U.S. Diabetes, sanofi-aventis
Diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease that has reached epidemic proportion, with 100 million people in the U.S. currently living with diabetes. At this rate, the CDC estimates that by the year 2050 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes. Visit www.datadesigndiabetes.com for more information, including criteria, official rules and deadlines. For more updates, follow Data Design Diabetes on Twitter and Facebook.
HELPFUL INFORMATION
- Data, Design, Diabetes Challenge Website
- Introduction Video
OUR JUDGES:
- Jeff Hammerbacher – Founder and Chief Scientist, Cloudera
- Manny Hernandez – Founder, TuDiabetes
- Hilary Mason – Chief Scientist, Bit.ly
- Todd Park – CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Sue Siegel – General Partner, MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Ida Sim – Director, UCSF Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics
- Dennis Urbaniak – VP U.S. Diabetes, sanofi-aventis
IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP IN MIND:
July 1, 2011 – Submissions open
July 31, 2011 – Last day to submit an entry
August 5, 2011 – 5 semi-finalists will be awarded $20,000, and mentored for 1 month as they create a prototype of their concept.
September 2011 (exact
date tbd) – Demo Day: 5 semifinalists will pitch their concepts to
contest judges and the public. Finalists will be selected by the judges
and through open voting on the website.
October 2011 (exact date tbd) – 2 finalists will be awarded $10,000 to gather feedback
about their concept from real people living with diabetes.
December 15, 2011 – Winner will be announced and awarded $100,000 to develop their solution.
NEED INSPIRATION?
Fact: 25.8 million people in the US have diabetes. CDC, 2011
Fact: 79 million more have pre-diabetes. CDC, 2011
Fact: The CDC estimates that 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by 2050. CDC, 2010
Fact: Diabetes is one of the most serious epidemics our country has ever faced.
Fact: You can help. For more information about the disease of diabetes, and how the Innovation Challenge poses to help, please check out our video: www.datadesigndiabetes.com/video