We officially have winners for the 2nd annual Code-a-Palooza. This year we tasked developers to create new visualization tools that help consumers make high value decisions using the 2012 Medicare Provider Payment Data that was released for the first time by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this past April.
We recognize at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services that opening data like this has great potential to further the nation’s understanding of health care spending and physician practice patterns.
To start the process off, we fielded 56 proposals that we then narrowed down to 10 finalists. Teams then had about a month to code using the data, and they definitely didn’t disappoint.
I would like to congratulate the 10 finalists for doing a great job in your app development, presentations, and endurance during the rapid-fire question and answer session – you are truly an inspiration and please keep up your innovative work!
I would also like to congratulate the 3 winners for doings some amazing work. Below are the names of the winners and a brief description of the application they developed.
First Place: Lyfechannel
Team Members: Dave Vockell
Deepak Kumar
Ashish Agrawal
Jay Bhowmik
Description of App: The team developed Smart Health Hero, which creates programs that translate physician instruction to patient action. The genesis for their idea came from 43 interviews with seniors where they discussed how they use Medicare. The result was the development of an application that consumers can use as a starting point with your physician to discuss what he/she is charging for what he/she does to you.
Second Place: Accordion Health
Team Members: Joyce Ho
Sriram Vishwanath
Omar Alvi
Jason Roh
Description of App: The team developed an application that provides tools to get personalized cost estimates and forecast potential complications. Engage consumers to make better-informed decisions
Third Place: karmadata
Team Members: Sean Power
Brendan Kelleher
J. Yesi Orihuela
Description of App: The team created a website, Myhealth.io, where providers and patients can easily find a surgeon based on the # of procedures they have done, the quality of the hospital, their location and visualizations to help them do that.
The Code-a-Palooza was co-sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Health Data Consortium and winners were announced today at the Health Datapalooza. More information on the Health Datapalooza can be found at healthdatapalooza.org.
