REMINDER: Washington DC HD&IW Code-a-thon: Preventing Obesity

REMINDER: Washington DC HD&IW Code-a-thon: Preventing Obesity

WASHINGTON, DC — (Marketwire) — 06/02/12 –and will host a to develop health care applications that can prevent obesity. During the two-day code-a-thon students and professional technologists will use big data to find creative solutions that prevent obesity and improve health care. The event is free to all developers and prizes awarded will include a $10,000 cash prize sponsored by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), entrance to , and a pass to the

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Awards $1 Million for Innovative Health Care Solutions

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Awards $1 Million for Innovative Health Care Solutions

BOSTON, MA — (Marketwire) — 05/14/12 — announced today that it has awarded more than $1 million to health care innovators through its series. The challenges, sponsored by both public and private entities such as the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Novartis, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Walgreens, bring multidisciplinary teams of developers together to address a specific, real-world health care issue.Challenges run anywhere from one d

CajunCodeFest Gathers Innovators to Fight Childhood Obesity Through Technology

LAFAYETTE, LA — (Marketwire) — 04/23/12 — On April 27-28, a coalition of public and private partners gather in Lafayette, LA at the first annual to collaborate on building innovative applications to fight rising childhood obesity rates.This two-day coding competition is being produced by the Center for Business and Information Technologies (CBIT) at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette with support from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Louisiana Department of Health and