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    "title" : "HHS Uses Crowdsourcing in Booming mHealth Industry |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"HHS Uses Crowdsourcing in Booming mHealth Industry","summary" : "The mobile health (mHealth) market is projected to become a $50 billion industry by 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been actively contributing to the rise of the mHealth applications. The agency uses public prize competitions like the recent “Game On: HIV/STD Prevention Mobile Application Video Game Challenge” to crowdsource a","date" : "2014-03-19T10:07:39-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
        
            "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-19-hhs-uses-crowdsourcing-in-booming-mhealth-industry.md","slug" : "hhs-uses-crowdsourcing-in-booming-mhealth-industry","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/03/19/hhs-uses-crowdsourcing-in-booming-mhealth-industry/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eThe mobile health (mHealth) market is \u003ca href=\"http://www.prweb.com/releases/mHealth-Market/GrandViewResearch/prweb11627393.htm\"\u003eprojected to become a $50 billion industry\u003c/a\u003e by 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been actively contributing to the rise of the mHealth applications. The agency uses public prize competitions like the recent “\u003ca href=\"http://gameon.challengepost.com/\"\u003eGame On: HIV/STD Prevention Mobile Application Video Game Challenge\u003c/a\u003e” to crowdsource a variety of health apps for the public in addition to creating mHealth apps in-house.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/12658805483_f5b0c3ab9b_b.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/12658805483%5c_f5b0c3ab9b%5c_b-250x142.jpg\"\n    alt=\"An iphone with a mobile app\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mobile health” is a broad term encompassing healthcare and medical technologies accessible by mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets. The recent report by GrandView Research cites the proliferation of smartphones, easy accessibility, and the low cost of mHealth technologies to the consumer as main drivers behind the projected industry boom.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorth America is currently the largest mHealth market, and monitoring services are the most prominent segment in the industry.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHHS has been among the most active federal agencies on \u003ca href=\"http://challenge.gov\"\u003eChallenge.gov\u003c/a\u003e since its launch over three years ago, and has run numerous challenges asking the public to create mobile applications to better deliver health data, monitor health conditions, and maintain healthy lifestyles.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe agency partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and asked solvers to use mobile devices to link air quality and physiological data in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9932947\"\u003eMy Air, My Health\u003c/a\u003e” challenge, attracting over 500 registered solvers.  The winning team, “Conscious Clothing”, created wearable air quality sensors that linked to mobile devices to display pollution levels with users’ breathing (see video below).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPvyIXdkc4g\u0026amp;w=600]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “\u003ca href=\"http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/apps4tots-health-challenge/\"\u003eApps4Tots Health Challenge\u003c/a\u003e” asked solvers to integrate information from \u003ca href=\"http://healthdata.gov/\"\u003ehealthdata.gov\u003c/a\u003e and an existing program that provided nutritional information for children aged 1-5 into a mobile app for children’s health. The winning solution, “\u003ca href=\"http://files.formstack.com/uploads/1453074/19523676/106735683/Apps4Tots_Challenge.pdf\"\u003emyfamily\u003c/a\u003e”, is an app for family health planning. It sends periodic messages with healthy tips and also contains a pediatric vaccine schedule, among other features.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith various challenges open to the public and other apps being created by the agency, it is safe to say that HHS has established itself as a leading source for health applications in the growing mHealth industry.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther HHS mobile health-related challenges include, but aren’t limited to:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://behavioralhealth.challengepost.com/\"\u003eBehavioral Health Empowerment Challenge\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/crowds-care-for-cancer-challenge-supporting-survivors-2/\"\u003eCrowds Care for Cancer Challenge: Supporting Survivors\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/million-hearts-risk-check-challenge/\"\u003eThe Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a complete listing of the HHS software/apps challenges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.challenge.gov/listings?utf8=%E2%9C%93\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;sort=recent\u0026amp;type=Software\u0026amp;agency=HHS\u0026amp;commit=Search\"\u003efilter by agency and challenge type\u003c/a\u003e on Challenge.gov. Also, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://apps.usa.gov/\"\u003eUSA.gov Mobile Apps Gallery\u003c/a\u003e to see federal health-related apps.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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