HHS Challenges and Competitions: Winners Gallery
This page shows all of the past challenges run by HHS whose winners have been announced. The challenges are listed in order of date posted on challenge.gov, from newest to oldest.
Name of Challenge | Description | Winners |
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| Apps Against Abuse | Encouraged the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent dating violence and sexual assault. | Circle of 6  and On Watch |
| Healthy Living Innovation Awards | Designed to acknowledge innovation health promotion projects that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community. Organizations must have a innovation project in one of three areas: healthy weight, physical activity, and nutrition. | Faith-Based and/or Community Initiatives: Taking the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program to Scale Health Care Delivery: Healthy Howard Health Coaching Healthy Workplace (Large employer): Shape up and Go! Healthy Workplace (Small Employer): Healthy Living Partnership Project Non-Profit: Healthy NC Hospitals Initiative: Healthy Food Environment Project Public Sector: Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota Schools (K-12): Mornings in Motion |
Intergenerational teams were asked to submit videos about how older Americans are connecting to the community in honor of Older Americans Month. | Team SunnyBrook by Kumar Wickramasingha | |
Participants are challenged to create a web app that will revolutionize healthcare by providing value to patients, providers, or researchers using patient-level data delivered through the SMART API. The app will run in the SMART Reference EMR where it can access patient demographics, medications, labs, and diagnoses. | Meducation SMART app, created by Polyglot Systems, Inc. More info found on smartplatforms.org | |
Go Viral to Improve Health: IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge | College students are invited to transform health data into innovative new applications. Students are asked to identify a health problem, assemble an interdisciplinary student team to create an app using data from the HHS Health Indicators Warehouse, and demonstrate how the solution could engage people to improve their health. | First Place: ”SleepBot” Second Place: ”Freebee” Third Place: ”IMPAct” |
NLM invites the public to create original short videos which promote awareness of NLM’s information products and services, including but not limited to Medline/PubMed, Medline Plus, GenBank, ClinicalTrials.gov, etc. | “James and the Peanut Allergy” by University of Utah’s Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library in collaboration with the Biomedical Informatics Department | |
OWH 2012 Calendar Cover Design Contest
| The Office of Women’s Health sponsored a contest to submit a design that would be the cover of the 2012 calendar.
| “At Peace” submitted by April Showen
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