Health Care needs technology to help speed up the communication lines between caretakers, care teams and patients. Our industry struggles with maintaining privacy while increasing the speed of communication. Build an app or digital solution that solves the communication barriers while maintaining health insurance portability and accountability compliance.

Examples:?

• connecting core care team members (nurses/residents/attending) to
• assist with real-time communication
• discharge needs of hospitalized patients
• parents caring for their child after a hospitalization

Knowledge is power and information is critical. We want to help our patients help themselves. Build an app that leverages and showcases readily available information so that it can be easily interpreted and acted upon:

Examples:

• Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist in managing chronic cardiovascular disease (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary disease, heart failure).
• EMR innovation that improves the visual display of clinical information (ala Tufte)
• An app that provides real-time accounting of the health consequences of daily choices
• An app that enables patient self-care
• Allow app data sharing and communication with user?s PCP to give the provider insight into the user?s mental health and alert them when intervention might be warranted

Great health care is only useful if you can get it when you need it. There are Rural and Underserved Populations that find it challenging to access health care in a timely and relevant matter. Build an app or digital solution that helps connect doctors with patients in rural/ underserved communities:

Examples:

• virtual training of rural clinical teams
• supporting an underserved population
• support rural birthing hospitals
• highest likely impact for the lowest cost (highest “value” innovation)
• digital innovations to serve homebound patients/elders/disabled
• Allow user to request transportation and caregiver services
• Digital tools for the large population of isolated elderly individuals who are at higher risks of a variety of physical and mental health conditions

Globally, one person dies from suicide every 40 seconds, and in the U.S. it is estimated that there are over 1.4 million suicide attempts per year.?In the U.S., suicide is the second leading cause of death among those aged 15-24.?In Maine, 27% of youth report feeling sad or hopeless, and this percentage has been rising nearly one point per year over the past decade.?More effective outreach to adults and youth is needed to combat feelings of depression and hopelessness that, if unaddressed, can lead to thoughts of suicide.?Create an app or social media-based platform that educates users and provides tools for suicide prevention.

Examples:

• ?Tailor the app to adults and youth separately if appropriate, using popular social media sites as the delivery platform and integrating peer support into the youth focused solution
• Help users understand the difference between sadness and suicide risk as well as when to provide support to a peer vs. seeking help from a professional (or adult/parent, for youth users)
• Integrate the app with available mental health resources, including services that can be provided without parental involvement where clinically appropriate (for youth users)
• Provide information that serves as evidence for hope for the future (i.e. ?someone like me? struggled in the same way, received help, and recovered)
• Allow users to contact the national suicide hotline and emergency services with one touch, if they or someone else is in immediate danger