InnoCentive Idea Submissions Add to Vast Pool of Ideas in Change Now 4 Innovation xChange

The ChangeNow4Health Innovation xChange has been looking for practical ideas and suggestions for improving the health care system. All participants in the system, from providers and health plans to consumers and government, have been encouraged to join in the discussion.

Over 100 idea submissions are available for review in the ChangeNow4Health Innovation xChange, and visitors have voted these the top five submissions to date:

1.      A Multi-Application Medical Smart Card.

2.      Epistemological Foundation for Healthcare Reform.

3.      Financing Healthcare: A New 3 Tiered System Idea.

4.      We need Universal Health Care Plan for all U.S. Citizens.

5.      Free Interactive Seminars For the Public on Preventive Medicine.

In addition to these 100+ direct submissions, ChangeNow4Health has also participated in InnoCentive, and has received 132 submissions through the InnoCentive site to date, with additional submissions still being compiled after InnoCentive’s submission deadline last week. 1,664 InnoCentive “Solvers” opened “project rooms” to evaluate the ChangeNow4Health challenge.

Who is InnoCentive? The InnoCentive web site has this to day about themselves:

Founded in 2001, InnoCentive connects companies, academic institutions, public sector and non-profit organizations, all hungry for breakthrough innovation, with a global network of more than 145,000 of the world's brightest minds on the world's first Open Innovation Marketplace™.

These creative thinkers -- engineers, scientists, inventors, and business people with expertise in life sciences, engineering, chemistry, math, computer science, and entrepreneurship -- join the InnoCentive Solver™ community to solve some of the world's toughest challenges.

Seeker™ organizations post their challenges on the InnoCentive web site, and offer registered Solvers significant financial awards for the best solutions. Seeker™ and Solver™ identities are kept completely confidential and secure, and InnoCentive manages the entire IP process.

So what kind of ideas have InnoCentive “Solvers” submitted? Here’s a one line summary of close to 50 selected submissions:

• Automated call-out by pharmacies to patients that have not renewed prescriptions for medications treating chronic conditions
• Nurse Centered well-call patient navigattion system
• Employer paid, catastrophic health care coverage utilizing HSAs
• Low Cost Prevenitve Health Care Insurance
• Wellness care incentives
• Direct Insurer communication to providers on how to fix specific claims, and implement smart insurance ID cards
• Internet based self-diagnosis
• Use credit card company payment model: Insurers pay providers directly, and Insurers bill and collect cost sharing from patients
• Diagnosis-triggered disease information card handouts
• Use cell phone technology and web platform for physicians to enter specific therapy schedule for patients
• Diagnostic web site administered by providers with check-in, billing and patient diagnostic information efficiencies
• Lifetime health savings accounts and patient/physician access to insurance online databases
• Free public access to Internet based self-diagnosis program and database
• Patient memory sticks and a universal patient history form
• Secured web portal allowing physicians access to brief diagnostic and drug information sheets
• Efficiency approach to streamline health care costs
• Financial incentives to achieve wellness levels, with support network of fitness centers
• Increase premiums from base rate for subscribers no engaging in healthy lifestyles
• Provide medicines in prescribed quantities instead of standard quantities
• No-corridor hospitals
• Personal assistance systems linked to remote control for elderly or disabled
• Use adminsitrative data on patients as a proxy medical file
• Universal health care measuring insulin resistance levels
• Physician Practice Computer Simulation Game
• Generic drug incentives and transparency
• Patient financial incentives to complete treatment plans
• Patient education via CD, DVD or book
• Providers sending unneeded medical supplies to other facilities prior to expiration
• Organized and subsidized daignostic system providing physical and health assessments
• Empowering providers and patients to fix prescription errors
• Increase the benefit and decrease the cost of blood glucose for diabetic care and monitor performance
• Home based medicines, and medical tourism packages
• Federal drug database
• Website for prescription drug price and insurance coverage information
• Centralized clearinghouse for patient medical information
• Pilot screening center for advancing therapy in diabetes
• Cumulative point system for patient incentives
• Data mining and predictive modeling
• Patient champion in physician office setting
• Internet based physician consultations and health monitoring
• High deductible programs tied to HSAs
• Increased cost participation in acute, self-provoked health incidents
• Cards in health care settings with patient symptom and diagnostic information
• Medical bond instead of insurance
• Centralized laboratory database
• Association of small business employers with a captive insurance company providing health benefits
• Crosslinking PHRs for datamining
• Interactive Multi Player Patient Health Simulation Game
• Patient triage system for office visits