As part of an effort to use publicly available data to inform decisions on healthcare, the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT held a code-a-thon throw down. The winner developed an electronic tool to help patients and their families use Medicare claims data to make healthcare choices.
Lyfechannel developed the tool, referred to as Smart Health Hero. Like other companies, it used Medicare Provider Payment data released by CMS in April. It walked away with $20,000.
The California company has a portfolio of patient-facing tools to manage chronic conditions and medical cost planning. Its Patient Connect program is a guide to support patients with decision making, preparation and recovery from medical procedures. A pulmonary rehabilitation program, based on the COPD Foundation Pulmonary Education program, includes breathing exercises along with diet and activity recommendations for COPD patients. The competition, which attracted 56 companies, also recognized Accordion Health in Austin, Texas and karmadata in Hingham, Massachusetts.
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A separate competition from ONC challenged companies to design a HIPAA-compliant privacy notice for patients and health plan members, optimized for online access. The idea is for these notices to be accessible from patients’ electronic health record and portals. Basically, it called for a document that is eye-catching enough to get their attention and accessible enough to keep it.
Here’s what the winning submissions looked like:
The third place winner was EXIT, a submission from a team led by Patrick Gage Kelley, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. It took a simple approach to create a DIY privacy notice for providers — it doesn’t require any knowledge of code. In a slide presentation explaining how it works, users are instructed to fill out a short, seven-question survey to articulate the information the company needs to generate in its notice. That generates an instant notice that can either be hosted by the group or downloaded and put on the company’s Web server. For consumers, it offers a group of links to help them take action to protect their privacy.
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Raj Arangarasan led the second place team, the Raj.
The team PatientPrivilege, led by Anatoly Geyfman, placed first.
