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HHS rewards use of technology to boost health
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a "Healthy New Year Video Challenge" that rewards contestants who create videos showing how they'll use health information technology to achieve a New Year's resolution.
The challenge aims to encourage Americans to use health IT to communicate with their healthcare providers and manage their health information. Boosting adoption of health IT and electronic health records has been a priority for the administration: The 2009 stimulus bill set aside $19 billion for health IT, while the healthcare reform law created incentives and penalties for physicians to make the switch to paperless records.
The challenge calls for contestants to create short videos — two minutes maximum — and register them on HealthyNewYearChallenge.gov by Feb. 16. First prize is $2,000.
