Partners Connected Health Innovation Challenge (CHIC)

Website and Application:

http://pchapps.partners.org/jmir/ (solution documents can be submitted to JMIR Challenges for possible publication)

Best idea for:

Technology-based solution that enables preventive care and chronic disease management outside of the clinic.

Background and Introduction

Partners Connected Health develops and validates technology-based solutions aimed at facilitating collaborative care, self-management, and improved quality. From ideation to implementation, our team envisions and builds innovations that facilitate collaborative care, self-management, and improved quality.

We create tools and processes that facilitate the delivery of healthcare that is:

• Time and place independent
• Outside of traditional care settings
• Maintains both real-world implementation capabilities
• Our multi-disciplinary teams work with clinicians, consultants, and research professionals to demonstrate the value and potential of technology-enabled interventions via pilots and trials in real-world settings. 

The Challenge

Current solutions often do not meet their goals of promoting self-care due to limited integration into the clinical workflow, and low sustainability of patient, provider, and caregiver engagement. The Partners Connected Health core mission is to define the future of technology-enabled care delivery by integrating real-world patient and provider perspectives with user-centered design principles to create clear paths toward innovation. 

This year, we are launching the Partners Connected Health innovation challenge (CHIC), a competition geared toward finding innovative technology-based solutions that enable care (preventive care and chronic disease management) outside of the clinic.

The Award(s)/Prize(s)

Eight participants will be selected from the pool of applicants. From those eight selected winners, two semi-finalists will be invited to engage in a user-centered design consultation with staff at Partners Connected Health.

To select the grand prize winner, the two semifinalists will present their progress in early July 2016 to a panel of judges composed of leaders from Partners HealthCare and innovation experts at our Connected Health offices. The grand prize winner will be announced on or around July 21, 2016.

Submission Deadline

Applications open: April 8th, 2016 

Application forms are due: May 6, 2016 

Solution documents can be submitted to JMIR Challenges for possible publication until 6 months after the competition deadline.

Eligibility and Submission Requirements

Any Partners HealthCare-affiliated individual or teams with at least one Partners HealthCare-affiliated member are eligible to participate. All email correspondence will be through the Entrant’s Partners HealthCare email address (ex. @partners.org, @mgh.harvard.edu, etc).

Judges

Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc, is the Chief Clinical Officer of the Partners Healthcare System, responsible for overall direction, operations, and management of system aspects of healthcare delivery throughout the Partners Healthcare delivery system.

Sreekanth Chaguturu is the Vice President for Population Health Management at Partners HealthCare. In this role, he provides clinical oversight of population health management clinical programs and leads the assessment and development of information technology and analytical solutions necessary to support population health programs

Trung Do is Executive Director of Business Development at Partners HealthCare, where he has overall responsibility for developing and managing strategic alliances with industry, new business development, and facilitating the marketing of intellectual property from Partners hospitals.

Judging Criteria

Submissions will be reviewed and rated based on the following criteria. 

• Importance of the issue or problem addressed
• Clarity of content
• Originality
• Relevance to the care provided by Partners HealthCare

Winner Selection/Notification

Semi-finalists and honorable mentions notified by June 1st, 2016 

Grand Prize winner selected: August 11, 2016 

License and Legal

The following are the generic licensing terms for all submissions to JMIR Challenges. If there are additional legal terms, they are specified in an additional Multimedia Appendix supplied by the sponsor.

Any Individual, Organization, or Group that enters this Contest is referred to in these Terms as an “Entrant.”

“Sponsor” is the individual or organization sponsoring the Contest.

Employees, officers, directors, members, managers, agents, and representatives of Sponsor and JMIR Publications Inc., and any other entities participating in the design, promotion, marketing, administration, or fulfillment of this Contest, or any of their respective corporate partners, parent companies, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors in interest, and advertising, promotion, and public relations agencies (collectively, the “Released Parties”) and any family member or member of the same household (whether or not related) of any such persons are not eligible to enter or win a prize in this Contest. For purposes of this Contest, the term “family members” is defined as any spouse, partner, parent, legal guardian, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or in-law.

LICENSE: By entering, except where prohibited by law, each Entrant grants to the Released Parties (and their agents, successors, and assigns) the irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, absolute right and permission to use, edit, modify, copy, reproduce, and distribute the Application Package (including the Application, Website, and/or Service) and any other Entrant Content that comprises the Entrant’s Entry in perpetuity and in any medium (including online and in digital media) in any language, throughout the world, for the purposes of evaluating Entries and administering this Contest, including selecting, announcing, and publicizing each winner and its Application, Website and/or Service. In addition, Entrants grant a non-exclusive, non-revocable right to JMIR Publications to publish and disseminate their submission under a Creative Commons Attribution license. 

Each winner further grants to the Released Parties (and their agents, successors, and assigns) a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right and license to use his, her, or its trade names and trademarks (including logos) in connection with this Contest, including for the purposes of announcing and publicizing the winner and his/her/its Application, Website or Service. 

Each entrant hereby acknowledges and agrees that the relationship between the Entrant and each of the Released Parties is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship, and that the Entrant’s decision to submit his/her/its Entry for purposes of the Contest does not place any of the Released Parties in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public with regard to elements of the Entry (including, without limitation, the Application Package), other than as set forth in these Terms. Each Entrant understands and acknowledges that the Released Parties have wide access to ideas, text, images, code, applications, software, and other creative materials. Each Entrant also acknowledges that many ideas for applications and online services may be competitive with, similar to, or identical to its Application, Website or Service and/or each other in idea, function, components, format, or other respects. Each Entrant acknowledges and agrees that such Entrant will not be entitled to any compensation as a result of any Released Party’s use of any such similar or identical material that has or may come to such Released Party from other sources. Each Entrant acknowledges and agrees that Sponsor does not now and will not have in the future any duty or liability (direct or indirect; vicarious, contributory, or otherwise) with respect to the infringement or protection of the Entrant’s patent, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to his/her/its Entry, including the Application, Website or Service contained or described therein. Each Entrant acknowledges that, with respect to any claim by Entrant relating to or arising out of a Released Party’s actual or alleged exploitation or use of any Entry or other material submitted in connection with the Contest, the damage, if any, thereby caused to the applicable Entrant will not be irreparable or otherwise sufficient to entitle such Entrant to seek injunctive or other equitable relief or in any way enjoin the production, distribution, exhibition, or other exploitation of any Released Party application, service or other property, and Entrant’s rights and remedies in any such event are strictly limited to the right to recover damages, if any, in an action at law.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY & DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS, EXCLUDES, OR MODIFIES OR PURPORTS TO LIMIT, EXCLUDE, OR MODIFY ANY STATUTORY CONSUMER GUARANTEE OR ANY IMPLIED CONDITION OR WARRANTY, THE EXCLUSION OF WHICH FROM THESE TERMS WOULD CONTRAVENE ANY STATUTE OR CAUSE ANY PART OF THESE TERMS TO BE VOID ("NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEES"). SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS IN THE PRECEDING SENTENCE AND TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY ANY MANDATORY PROVISIONS OF APPLICABLE LAW, THE RELEASED PARTIES EXCLUDE FROM THESE TERMS ALL CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES, AND TERMS IMPLIED BY STATUTE, GENERAL LAW, OR CUSTOM, EXCEPT FOR LIABILITY IN RELATION TO A NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEE. SUBJECT TO ANY NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEES, EACH ENTRANT AGREES TO RELEASE, HOLD HARMLESS, AND INDEMNIFY (I.E., DEFEND AND/OR REIMBURSE) THE RELEASED PARTIES FROM ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR INJURIES OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND SUSTAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, MISUSE, OR AWARDING OF A PRIZE OR WHILE PREPARING FOR, PARTICIPATING IN, AND/OR TRAVELING TO OR FROM ANY CONTEST- OR PRIZE-RELATED ACTIVITY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY INJURY, DAMAGE, DEATH, LOSS, OR ACCIDENT TO PERSON OR PROPERTY (HOWEVER (BUT ONLY IF REQUIRED BY LAW IN YOUR JURISDICTION), THIS RELEASE, HOLD HARMLESS, AND INDEMNIFICATION COMMITMENT DOES NOT APPLY TO CASES OF BODILY INJURY OR LOSS OF LIFE OR TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY IS CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF SPONSOR OR OTHER THIRD PARTY, WHERE LIABILITY TO THE INJURED PARTY CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BY LAW). EACH WINNER AGREES THAT THE PRIZE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW), WHETHER NOW KNOWN OR HEREINAFTER ENACTED, RELATIVE TO THE USE OR ENJOYMENT OF THE PRIZE, BEYOND ANY NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEES.