You have two days to submit your idea to the GE’s hospital quest competition, but two companies have already picked up $5,000.
Each milestone winner has built an app to make the hospital experience less of a hassle.
Behavioral Health, Interoperability and eConsent: Meeting the Demands of CMS Final Rule Compliance
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
The Discharge Roadmap app incorporates patient and caregiver needs and preferences in the discharge discussion. The idea is to improve communication between the hospital care team and community-based care providers as well.
Request-a-Porter app allows hospital staff to manage transport requests through text messages. Frontline medical staff and porters communicate through text messages and the location of individual porters are tracked. The system can work through a public cell system or a private-messaging platform.
GE will announce eight Grand Prizes and one Lean Startup winner in March. The winners will share $100,000 in cash from GE.
Check out the 134 entries here. These ideas focus on efficient patient discharge, digital hospital assistant applications and smart care scheduling tools.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Read more about the competition at GE Reports.
