Three teams tapped to create a healthier nation

Three health care technology solutions are one step closer to wider spread availability as of Saturday night after the AMA Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge winners were announced. The top choice: A smartphone app that has already started saving lives and bridging communication gaps in health care. The AMA’s Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge kicked off in April and invited all U.S. physicians, residents and medical students to be a positive force for health care and present their best ideas for shaping 21st-century medicine. The three winning ideas were selected from a total of 116 solutions submitted to compete in the challenge. The Healthier Nation Challenge winning teams The winners were selected during a live event at MATTER, Chicago’s health care technology incubator. They will share $50,000 in prizes to accelerate their solutions. First place—$25,000: Twiage is a secure, pre-hospital platform that helps hospitals not only save time and money but also patient lives. “We’ve built a free smartphone application for EMS that’s faster, easier and more powerful than radios,” said YiDing Yu, MD, a practicing internist and founder of Twiage. “A paramedic can send photos and videos in real time to the hospital,” Dr. Yu said. “They can, in one click, select the chief complaint and use our proprietary algorithms that help provide decision support that helps standardize diagnosis pre-hospital.” For example, if a patient has a broken...
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