Google and American Medical Association to work together for medical health data challenge

The tech giant Google is teaming up with the medical giant American Medical Association (AMA), to invite new solutions and methods of mobile health technology along with health monitoring devices with the help of devices and applications, which will be able to help monitor patients effectively and will share medical health data to manage chronic conditions.

AMA's "The Health Care Interoperability and Innovation Challenge" plans to evolve health data which is available to portray a picture of a patient's complete journey from wellness to illness and suffering to treatment and beyond that allows health care delivery to fully focus on patient function, state, outcomes, and goals.

It will investigate how the technology works when the data related to remote patient monitoring of conditions is stored on a mobile device, and how it is transferred to and from a clinicians' practice for incorporation into a physician's practice workflow.

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"The AMA is working to unleash a new era of patient care through its Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI) by pioneering a common data model for organising and sharing meaningful health data like patient goal, state, and functioning, and assembling an unprecedented collaborative effort across health care and technology stakeholders," AMA President David O. Barbe, said in a statement on Monday.

The plan is to improve the process of a supporting patient-physician interaction model that optimises physician time and patient results.

The solutions should include how to import or transfer patient-generated data from a mobile device or a mobile application into one or more phases of the physician or payer health data management cycles.

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The winner will be selected to share $25,000 in credits for Google Cloud, followed by the $15,000 and $10,000 for the second and third prize, respectively. All Qualified Entries receive $3,000 in Google Cloud credits.

The challenge is open to individuals and teams only who are Startup Entities (individuals or teams who are 18 years of age or older and have received less than $5 million in funding and have earned less than $5,00,000 in annual revenue as of the date of entry).

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