MDP invites entrepreneurs, developers, healthcare professionals, and innovators from across the country to step up to the challenge of building cloud-based solutions that solve hospitals’ biggest pain points.

Overview

“Hospitals, from the smallest critical access facilities to leading academic medical centers, are starved for disruptive, nimble technologies that can improve care quality, maximize provider efficiency, and reduce costs. For this challenge, we welcome anyone with a novel approach to fixing what’s broken—big or small, radical or simple. The future of healthcare depends on entrepreneurs overcoming the industry’s notoriously high barriers to entry. That’s why we built the More Disruption Please program—to inspire a new generation of apps and services that will challenge and revolutionize the way providers and hospitals work.”  

                                  - Jonathan Bush, President & CEO, athenahealth

The challenge will kick off on January 5, 2016 and remain open through April 1, 2016. A panel of industry experts will evaluate submissions, with winners announced on April 12th. The individual or team behind the best innovation will receive $10,000 in cash, a round-trip flight to Boston to meet with athenahealth executives, and the potential for partnership and/or investment via the MDP program.  Cash prizes will also be awarded to the runner-up, honorable mentions, and a crowd-sourced People’s Choice finalist.

To get started, please review the following:

• The Challenge
• Rules
• Eligibility Requirements
• Submission Requirements

Background

Healthcare needs less distraction and more disruption. Through collaboration and seamless integration on an open cloud platform, More Disruption Please provides easy access to the world’s most innovative thinking, offering solutions to help health care professionals thrive in the face of industry change and pressure.

The MDP Network brings together a community of great minds looking to improve the status quo in healthcare. The MDP Accelerator invests in high-potential, early-stage startups and provides resources and customer access critical to their scalability and success. The athenahealth Marketplace delivers solutions seamlessly integrated with athenaNet, enabling providers to get the most out of their care giving experience.

$18,000 in prizes

1. Create an account or log-in with an existing Devpost account.
2. Sign the MDP Innovation Challenge participant waiver form.
3. Create a viable software solution, prototype and/or business plan that addresses a pressing pain point for hospitals and/or health systems, such as those discussed in The Challenge.  
4. Visit the Submission Requirements page for information on what is required when submitting the software solution.

• Potential Impact
  What is the potential impact of the solution, in terms of both scope and size, on the hospital market?
• Technology Innovation
  How creative, original, and innovative is the solution? How effective is it in utilizing technology to solve the proposed problem?
• Business Model
  Is the business model well thought-out, realistic, and scalable?
• Design
  How usable, human-centered, and satisfying is the user experience?
• Team
  What makes this team the right team to solve this problem and bring the technology to market?
• Presentation
  How clear and persuasive is the presentation, video, and/or prototype?