3 Awesome Open Innovation Challenges for Better Health

December 29, 2014 By IdeaConnection

800px-DNK_ambulance_A6Need a medical innovation, a better way to treat patients or new approaches to improve health and well-being? The crowd may just have the solution that you are looking for.

The medical and healthcare industries are no strangers to open innovation and putting the brain power of the public to good use. After all, we all have vested interests in the outcomes.  Here are three open innovation challenges that have yielded breakthrough innovations:

 

Seizure Detection and Prediction Challenge – an open innovation contest for computer algorithms to predict, detect and help prevent epileptic seizures. There were two challenges in fact; a prediction challenge and a detection challenge.  The former was won by a team whose software could predict a seizure with 82% accuracy.  The open innovation contest was sponsored by several organisations including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge – this was organised by the Coca-Cola Company and awarded top prize to a collective in India for their idea for a constellation of apps to help connect donors with NGOs. One of the apps brings blood donors and recipients together on the same platform and also aims to raise awareness of blood donations.  The collective is also working on apps in other fields such as sustainable transport.

Target Simplicity Challenge – this was a US nationwide search for new ideas to simplify healthcare.  From the hundreds of submissions, two winners were selected.  They were 1) a café concept to provide meals from locally sourced, organic ingredients at Target’s in-store cafés, and 2) an online gift registry for caregivers.


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