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The Next X PRIZE Is For...

...affordable, quality health care. Now's your chance to assemble your team's great ideas and see if they actually work in a real-world experiment.
"The $10 million Healthcare X PRIZE, organized in collaboration with the WellPoint Foundation and health benefits company WellPoint Inc., asks entrants to generate a 50% improvement in health value in a community of 10,000 people over a three-year period. "Health value" is defined as the combination of total cost and a community health index that measures factors like improved ability to climb stairs and reduction in emergency room visits.

"Teams will have 18 months to plan their proposals. At the end of the planning period, five finalists will be selected to test their models in U.S. communities of 10,000 people. WellPoint and its affiliated health plans will collaborate with employers and health-care providers to set up test communities, and the finalists' results will be compared against a control group."
Let me know if your team could use one more sometimes-cranky, often-provocative innovator. More from the X PRIZE Foundation here.


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