[game_edu] Fwd: A Game Idea Contest for Health Care Quality

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From: *Ben Sawyer*
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Subject: A Game Idea Contest for Health Care Quality
To: Sawyer Ben <bensawyer at gmail.com>


Dear friend,

I'm working with the Health 2.0 team and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations's
Aligning Forces for Quality Team to promote an interesting game-based
challenge competition around data and health quality. This email is meant
to spread the word on the challenge as it closes initial entries on Feb 22.

Full details, including a recorded webinar on the effort are available at:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-aligning-forces-games-to-generate-data-challenge/

ABOUT THIS CHALLENGE
The effort involves ideas for creating games that GENERATE data we could
use to improve health & healthcare.  Lots of current data+games efforts
focus on building games that use existing data. We wanted to see if games
could generate useful new data sets.  The challenge is easy to enter and
after a first round of $5,000 winners, round 2 includes prizes up to
$100,000.

I've included information below on this effort and wanted to make sure you
saw it personally.  Many of you receiving this email are also professors in
CS and game development programs who have students who might want to enter.
 The initial work to generate a competent entry that can win is pretty low.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD
I am also hoping that because you are so active on social media that you'll
help me out and post about the competition to help spread the word.

Feel free to forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in
entering or letting others know about it further.

If you're active on social media I've included very basic Twitter compliant
posts below you can use/edit to spread the word as well.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.  Happy to also answer any
questions as well.

Ben Sawyer
Games for Health Project
Digitalmill, Inc.


SOCIAL MEDIA SUGGESTIONS:

Can you create a game to generate useful health data & improve quality? If
so enter the Health20 dev challenge:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-aligning-forces-games-to-generate-data-challenge/

Games for Data challenge by Health20 ending soon. Entering is really easy.
Details:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-aligning-forces-games-to-generate-data-challenge/

Deadline approaching for Health20 Games for Data challenge around health
quality.  Easy to enter. Details:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-aligning-forces-games-to-generate-data-challenge/

Win $5,000 just for a great game idea.  Thousands more for round 2.
Health20 Games for Data challenge. Details:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-aligning-forces-games-to-generate-data-challenge/


MORE INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) $200,000 Games to Generate Data Challenge
JANUARY 29, 2013 BY BENSAWYER LEAVE A COMMENT

Our friends at Health 2.0 with support from The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) recently announced the
$200,000 Games to Generate Data Challenge – a competition among technology
developers to create game applications that generate useful health care
quality data to improve health and health care.

Games for Health is helping support the challenge by spreading the word,
helping with judging entries, and informing the design of the contest.

We encourage everyone in our community and the game development community
to consider entering the competition.
What makes this challenge unique are two interesting items:

        • The first level of entry requires no more then a great idea,
explained in a simple document. You may submit your concept in PDF format,
of no more than 8 pages describing the submission. The document should
include a software description, a data generation description, and a
community deployment approach.

        • The Challenge focuses on generating data not just building a game
on top of data. This is unique, and offers lots of interesting
opportunities. How can you build a game that turns your players into data
generators and gatherers? Would you just measure their own decisions? Is it
a crowdsource game? The creative opportunities are wide open. In addition,
don’t just think of data as numbers on a spreadsheet. Data could include
places in the world, photos, Web sites, or data from sensors like
pedometers just to name a few.

In this new Game Challenge, competing developers will build upon data from
RWJF’s Aligning Forces initiative, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
program, and other databases to create game applications that engage
patients and health providers in generating new quality data.

The Game Challenge requires participating developers to provide a means for
the data generated to be directed toward health care improvement. In
playing the developed game applications, participants will be competing or
collaborating to improve personal health while simultaneously contributing
to the overarching goal of maximizing their community’s health.

The Aligning Forces Game Challenge will be conducted in two phases. Phase
one is an open ideation phase for interested developer teams to submit
application concepts. In phase two, the top five developer teams from phase
one will build upon their initial proposals and create working game
applications. The developer of the winning game app will receive $100,000.
The second place winner will receive $50,000, and the third place winner
will be awarded $25,000.

Winners will be announced in September 2013 and the first place winner will
present at the annual Fall Health 2.0 Conference later that month.
Developers can learn more and register for the challenge at
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/?p=12074.

The deadline for entry submission for phase one is February 22, 2013.


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