We
are entering an unprecedented season of change for the United States
health care system. Americans are united by their desire to
fundamentally reform our current system into one that delivers on the
promise of freedom, equity, and best outcomes for best value. In this
season of reform, we will see all kinds of ideas presented from all
across the political spectrum. Many of these ideas will be
prescriptive, and don’t harness the power of innovation to create the
dramatic breakthroughs required to create a next generation health
system.
We believe there is a better way.
This belief is founded in
the idea that aligned incentives can be a powerful way to spur
innovation and seek breakthrough ideas from the most unlikely sources.
Many of the reform ideas being put forward may not include some of the
best thinking, the collective experience, and the most meaningful ways
to truly implement change. To address this issue, the X PRIZE Foundation, along with WellPoint Inc and WellPoint Foundation as sponsor, has introduced a $10MM prize
for health care innovators to implement a new model of health. The
focus of the prize is to increase health care value by 50% in a 10,000
person community over a three year period.
The Healthcare X PRIZE team has released an Initial Prize Design
and is actively seeking public comment. We are hoping, and encouraging
everyone at every opportunity, to engage in this effort to help design
a system of care that can produce dramatic breakthroughs at both an
individual vitality and community health level.
Here is your opportunity to contribute:
- Download the Initial Prize Design
- Share you comments
regarding the prize concept, the measurement framework, and the
likelihood of this prize to impact health and health care reform.
- Share the Initial Prize Design document with as many of your
health, innovation, design, technology, academic, business, political,
and patient friends as you can to provide an opportunity for their
participation
We hope this blog rally amplifyies our efforts to solicit feedback
from every source possible as we understand that innovation does not
always have a corporate address. We hope your engagement starts a viral
movement of interest driven by individual people who realize their
voice can and must be included. Let’s ensure that all of us - and the
people we love - can have a health system that aligns health finance,
care delivery, and individual incentives in a way that optimizes
individual vitality and community health. Together, we can ensure the
best ideas are able to come forward in a transparent competition
designed to accelerate health innovation. We look forward to your
participation.
This post was written by Scott Shreeve, MD in behalf of the X PRIZE Foundation. Special thanks to Paul Levy for both demonstrating the value of collaborative effort and suggesting we utilize a blog rally for this crowdsourcing effort.
