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More than 300 entries from the Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care competition have been reviewed and categorized by following types of innovation:

Mobile Clinics
Web-Based Information Portal
Mobile Phone Technology
Patient Feedback Mechanism
Electronic/Personal Health Records
Telemedicine
Micro- Community-Based Insurance or Alternate Insurance
Health Ambassadors
Bringing "Alternative" Approaches to the Core of Health Care
Centering Model - Group treatment to Reduce Costs and Increase Access
Less Institutional and More Like Home Medical Facilities
Caring for the Marginalized
Faith-Based Infrastructure to Push Health to the Masses
Prevention through Nutrition

Mobile Clinics Bringing the services to clients who do not have means of transportation has taken shape in motorized vehicles, draught animals and even simply availing services on the street corners Opportunity cost of seeking health care is greatly reduced
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Scott VanLue	Vitis Healthcare	Inside Out: Patient Empowered Health Care	United States
John Whang	YourHealthAdvocate.org	Bringing the Exam Room to the Web: YourHealthAdvocate.org. Better Communication. Better Care.	United States
Bhagwati Agrawal	Sustainable Innovations, Inc.	Kiosk-based Clinics for Masses	United States
Ralph Soldano	Universal Therapeutic Services	"All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe"	United States
Molly Fay	Nomadic Community Trust	Nomadic Communities Trust: Bringing Healthcare to Nomadic Populations in Remote Locations	Kenya
Marsha Wilson Rappaport	St. Vincent's House	WelCare Initiative - Proactive Outreach in an Underserved Minority Community	United States
Susan Woodruff	University of Arizona	Empowering Prenatal Care: Centering for Healthy Families	United States
Stephen Carlson	Intercultural Services with Harm Reduction Cultural Resources	Harm Education, Reduction & Outreach Service (HEROS)	United States

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Web-Based Information Portal Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Benjamin Atkinson	Independence Health Center	QuIP: A Rules-Based Engine for Healthcare Quality, Innovation & Productivity	United States
Lynne Perry	LynSys Software Services, DBA	Uncensored Healthcare	United States
Janet Youngblood	SUNY at Stony Brook	My Neighborhood Healthcare	United States
Laura Atwell	The Wellness Community	The Virtual Wellness Community 2.0	United States
Joan Peckolick	Self Chec, Inc.	Self chec--Helping to save 350,000 people from cancers that are often preventable, treatable and curable	United States
Ashley Tabeling	Project PCOS	Project PCOS	United States
Ricardo Muñoz	UCSF/SFGH Internet Health Research Center	Using the Internet to Reduce Health Disparities Nationally and Worldwide	United States
Jack Heath	myreachout.com	Promoting resiliency and preventing suicide among young people: a proven web based approach to reach millions nation wide	United States
Andrew Robinson	Patient2Patient, LLC	Enabling 90 Million Patients in the United States to Find Critical Health Information Online	United States
Kimberly Harding	American College of Cardiology	Develop a universal technology framework for registries focused on capturing outcomes data for cardiovascular disease	United States
Robyn Bay	WE MOVE	Individualized Online Educational Experience for Patients with Movement Disorders	United States
Duane Wisk	Wisk, LLC	Empowering Consumer Health Management through AI-Driven Value-Based Disease Measurement and Reporting	United States
Karen Herzog	Sophia’s Garden Foundation	Healing in Community™ Online	United States

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Mobile Phone Technology Using SMS text messaging, patients are notified of required appointments, medication schedules and other medically related news A built in feedback mechanism through which the individual can send a message back to the doctor or to a general headquarters as in case of disease outbreak notification ensures that the technology provides a complete loop where the flow of information is bidirectional The mobile phone technology has yet to enable distance diagnosis or consultation
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Jessie Dias-Alf	Dozoka	Mobile Technology To Improve Health Service Delivery Within Government	South Africa
Peter Boland	BeWell Mobile Technology	Disease Management Delivered by Cellphone	United States
Shafiq Shamsur Razzaq	Örebro University	'eduPhone' using mobile technology	Sweden
Neal Lesh	Dimagi Inc.	Incentive Based Mobile Phone Technology	United States
Paula Wickham	Hallworth House	Improving Quality of Care, Consumer Satisfaction and Efficiency	United States
Marc Lara	Connect US	A revolutionary multi-channel network to improve doctor-to-patient communications	United States
Ken Lavergne	Prime Network International	Disruptive Health/Healthcare: Reduced cost, Increased productivity	United States

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Patient Feedback Mechanism Unlike many other industries, health care currently has no checks on its products and services. Currently, the only mechanism that exists in the United States is a court system, though useful for some cases, there is no other options for lesser incidents Most patient feedback websites provide a place an outlet for the patients to share with other patients and health consumers of their experience A more disruptive combination of patient feedback in a complete loop not only informs other health care consumers but also notifies the institution of the negative or positive feedback – the hospital or clinic or doctor can post their response in how they upheld the positive and reformed the negative back to the patients
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Paul Hodgkin	Patient Opinion	Patient Opinion International	United Kingdom
Sandra Stewart	Coalition for Improving Maternity Services	The Birth Survey: Transparency in Maternity Care	United States
Sarah Ingersoll	The USC-Los Angeles Area Practice Based Research Network (LANET)	“The Patient as a Catalyst for Change”: A Pilot	United States

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Electronic/Personal Health Records Efforts to create a streamlined and computerized health record for individuals are in full force, based on the entries alone, although largely U.S. focused, organizations throughout the U.S. is working to create such a system There is little talk about creating a nationwide system aside from one entry but many organizations are creating several smaller scale systems, there are also personal health records targeting specific groups such as pregnant women, the elderly and other disciplines such as dental health Some organizations are looking to create a portable system in conjunction with a parallel electronic system
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Jeanne-Marie Guise	STORC OB Safety Initiative	Empowering Women to Have Healthy Pregnancies and Safe Deliveries	United States
Pat Deegan	Pat Deegan PhD & Associates, LLC	CommonGround	United States
John Boden	ElderIssues LLC	Assisting Families Caregivers via the Internet	United States
Rebecca Rush	Financial Stewardship Services Network, LLC	MY WAY PLANNING PROGRAMS: Urgent-Issues Empowerment	United States
Michael Victoroff	Lynx Collaborative Care Network, LLC	A Health Record Summary is the Doorway to the "Medical Home"	United States
Fred Ferguson	About Smiles	An Interactive Health Strategy to Promote Oral Health	United States
Jamil Aboulhosn	Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Research	Integrated Adult Congenital Heart Research Initiative	United States
Naomi Melvin	Patient Practitioners.com	Empowering Wellness with a Universal PHR ( Personal Health Record) Technology	United States
Tom Savel	National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC	A Public Health Grid: Accelerating the Interoperability of Information Systems for Public Health	United States
Rose Donna	The Datadyne Group	The EpiSurveyor Project: Lowering the Barriers and Raising the Bar for Data Collection	United States
Tom Jennings, MD	Medical Net Systems	Advanced Online Integrated PHR/EMR Technology to Improve Public Health and the Practice of Medicine	United States
David Ehrenberger	integrated Physician Network Vista	iPN Avista: demonstrating healthcare value across a community	United States
Laura Esserman	University of California San Francisco	Democratizing Information to Transform Care and Drive Innovation in Breast Cancer Management	United States
Walter Stewart	Geisinger Clinic	ProvenCare: A Preference-Based Care System	United States
Stephen Bolles	Consumer Health Union	ConsumerHealthUnion will be a new platform and community for consumers to manage and leverage personal health and wellness data	United States
Athar Haque	e-Health-Care Foundation	eHealth-Care	India
Kate Steele, R.N.	Evanston Northwestern Healthcare	Better Connections, Better Care	United States
Kendra Wyatt	University Healthcare Infusion Services	Virtual Reality Avatars as Health Advocates	United States
Amy Schultz	Foundation for a Health Community	Creating Consumer-Empowered Community Care Navigation	United States
Diane Hauser	Institute for Family Health	My Chart, My Health	United States

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Telemedicine Through technology, patients located in remote locales are provided services through the web, telephone – consultations are provided via these technologies in rural areas, even in space Telemedicine is utilized by the entrants to connect primary care practitioners with specialists for remote patients, health courses are taught to expand the health knowledge of remote health care workers, knowledge base is widened and spread beyond the urban centers
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Gerda Pohl	PHASE Worldwide	Introducing Telemedicine in Remote Rural Health Posts in Nepal	United Kingdom
John Liebert	Expert Clinical Systems, Inc.	Making Lean Management of the Healthcare Industry Run by Evidence-based Rules for Triage	United States
Kenneth McConnochie	University of Rochester	Virtual Housecalls: Healthcare when and where you need it, by people you know and trust	United States
Scott Dulchavsky	Henry Ford Hospital	Space age medical care for use on Earth	United States
Graham Ewing	Montague Healthcare	Virtual Scanning - the next generation of medical technology	United Kingdom
Bill Choi	NanoLambda	Spectrum Sensor, a spectrometer-on-a-chip for non-invasive personal health monitoring devices	United States
Fritz Johnson	TelaDoc Medical Services	Changing The Paradigm For American Healthcare	United States
Alex Camacho	The Center for Youth	Computer-Mediated Health Services: Innovation and Disruption in Health Care and IT	United States
Dinesh Achar	Narayana Hrudayalaya	Out reaching the under served through tele-medicine	India
Greg Wolff	UnaMesa Association	MORE Health Today! TV + SMS courses for caregivers	United States
Partap Chauhan	Jiva Institute	Teledoc: The Domino's Pizza of Natural Healthcare	India

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Micro- Community-Based Insurance or Alternate Insurance Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Priti Jacob	Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences	Affordable Health for all	India
Richard Willard	The Original GIFT HSA	GIFT Health Savings Accounts Funded by Non Governmental Organizations	United States
François-Xavier Hay	UpLift India Association	UpLift Health Mutuals (Community Based Social Protection Resource Centre)	India
Marion Danis	National Institutes of Health	Choosing Healthplans All Together	United States
Pradeep Ghosh	Organisation for Awareness of Integrated Social Security (OASIS)	Free Health Services to Rural Populations	India
Mirai Chatterjee	Self-Employed Women’s Association	Women's Health in Women's Hands - SEWA's Lok Swasthya Cooperative	India
Ray Werntz	HPN Worldwide	Engaging Consumers as High Performance Health Care Catalysts	United States
Ian Jones III	Creekside Chiropractic Wellness Center	TrueHealth Investment Cooperative	United States
Ashwin Naik	Vaatsalya Healthcare	Enabling access to affordable and efficient healthcare in Semi-urban and rural India	India
David Dror	Micro Insurance Academy	Demystifying health insurance package design by Choosing Healthplans All Together (CHAT)	India
Mukteshwari Kaushik Bosco	Healing Fields Foundation	Breaking the Cycle of Despair	India

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Health Ambassadors Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Maristela Moraes	Instituto PAPAI	Health Friendly Services for Adolescents (sexual and reproductive health and rights)	Brazil
Ruth Ann Carpenter	The Cooper Institute	ACTIVnation	United States
Dolores Datcher	C-Datcher & Associates, LLC	The Prostrate Cancer Intervention Education and Support Pilot Program for Rural Men in Charles County, Maryland	United States
Charles Beauchamp	Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University	Every Person is a Community Health Worker	United States
Collins Apuoyo	EPS PRogram	Bartering Away Guinea Worm	Sudan
David Wetherow	CommunityWorks	Microboards: consumers and families managing direct supports with the help of an engaged community	Canada
Nandini Mundkur	Center for Child Development and Disabilities	Project Kushali (Well being in sanskrit)	India
Zahed Masud	AITAM Welfare Organization	Reaching Unheards	Bangladesh
Eden Rock	Freedom from Hunger	MicroBusiness for Health	Ghana
Chris Norwood	Health People: Community Preventive Health Institute	The Consumer Control and Community Empowerment Plan NOW	United States
Raman V R	State Health Resource Centre Chhattisgarh	Mitanin Programme, Chhattisgarh, India: Preparing a Volunteer Force of Sixty Thousand Women for Community Healthcare Needs	India
Charles Slaughter	Living Goods	The 'Avon' of Rural Health - A Sustainable Solution for Defeating the Diseases of Poverty	United States
Stella Alamo Talisun	Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV/AIDS Initiative	Building a functional community of Grandmothers	Uganda
Christopher Moore	Christiana Care Health Services	Camp Fresh	United States
David Moore	Imperial College London	MODS to STOP MDRTB	Peru

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Bringing "Alternative" Approaches to the Core of Health Care Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Sarah McCrum	Academy of Potential Education	Happy to relax	New Zealand
H. Sudarshan	Karuna Trust	Mainstreaming Traditional Medicine in Primary Health Care	India
Partap Chauhan	Jiva Institute	Teledoc: The Domino's Pizza of Natural Healthcare	India

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Centering Model - Group treatment to Reduce Costs and Increase Access Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Lupine Hudson	Working Class Acupuncture/ Community Acupuncture Network	Community Acupuncture Movement	United States
Becky Lindsay	Centering Pregnancy and Parenting Association	CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting Group Care: Relationship-Centered Healthcare That Improves Outcomes	United States
Susan Woodruff	University of Arizona	Empowering Prenatal Care: Centering for Healthy Families	United States
Elaine McIntosh	Regents of the University of Michigan/School of Nursing Nurse Managed Centers (NMCs)	CenteringPregnancy: A Nursing Model for group pre-natal visits at University of Michigan Nurse Managed Centers (NMCs)	United States

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Less Institutional and More Like Home Medical Facilities Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Melissa Honig	THE GREEN HOUSE® Replication Initiative (GHRI)	THE GREEN HOUSE ® Replication Initiative (GHRI)	United States
Emily Pring	Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Foundation	Applying the hospice model to non-terminal illness through palliative care case management	United States
Allen Richon	The Foothills Village	Healthy Aging, One Home at a Time	United States
John Baer	The Center to Promote Health Care Studies, Inc.	Empowering Elderly to Assume Control in Influencing, Planning & Changing Their Care and Life Style as Nursing Home Residents	United States
June Paley	Ozanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home	Love Made Visible	United States
Pieter Ernst	Marang House	Marang House: Stable home-environments instead of hospitals to accommodate underprivileged seriously ill children	South Africa
Ujjal Kesh	Westbank Hospital	Hospital where I live with my near and dear ones	India

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Caring for the Marginalized Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Raymond Van den Heuvel	RayVan	RayVan "Triage Plug" Paradigm and "Biomimetic" Technology"	United States
Jackie Armstrong	Practice Without Pressure, Inc.	Breaking restraints: bringing systems change to routine care for persons with developmental disabilities	United States
Anca Purdu	Anca Purdu	A.S.C.A.D. Association of Structures Cares for Avoiding Disability	Romania
Judy Pannullo	Suffolk Community Council, Inc.	Insightful Sound and Sight Health Care Accessibility	United States
Carole Franklin	Rainbow Medicine Lodge, Incorporated	RAINBOW MEDICINE LODGE...A Multi-discipline Medical Facility with Native American Indian Orientation	United States
Jonathan Metsch	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Focus on Orphan Public Health Programs	United States
Christopher Gray	Bay Area Digital	An Accessible Blood Glucose Meter for Visually and Cognitively Impaired Patients with Diabetes	United States
Anjali Dotson	Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan	A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...	India
Eugene Jacquescoley	Projects in Motion USA CCR	Project Risk Reduction	United States
Louis Dennington	Secure Healthcare Ltd.	A dynamic and pioneering social enterprise dedicated to improving healthcare for prisoners and offenders	United Kingdom
Abu Yusuf Choudhury	PIACT Bangladesh	A managed health care program for sex workers	Bangladesh
Becky Kanis	Common Ground Community	Hospital to Home: Prescribing Housing as a Choice for Homeless Over-Consumers of Hospitals	United States
Jon Kuniholm	Open Prosthetics Project	Open Prosthetic Fulfillment Initiative	United States

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Faith-Based Infrastructure to Push Health to the Masses Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Scott Dulchavsky	Henry Ford Hospital	Faith Based Health Kiosk	United States
Dan McClure	Generations Community Wellness Centers, Inc.	Abuelas Sanas - Healthy Families	United States
Michael Parker	Faith and Successful Aging Institute	Faith & Successful Aging Institute	United States

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Prevention through Nutrition Based on the premise that informed patients make better choices and also have more freedom through knowledge, various forms of medical and health knowledge databases are proposed Some information portals are focused on specific illnesses to provide a wider knowledge base for specific ailments and diseases, some are working to showcase interventions for preventable or chronic diseases through behavior change based on the information provided None have yet to establish a diagnosis mechanism based on symptoms, rather one must know the name of a disease in order to see its associated symptoms
*Name*	*Organization*	*Title of Entry*	*Country*
Sandy Gershuny	Centre for Prosperity and Autonomy Lesotho	Combating malnutrition with supplementation of Leaf Extract	Lesotho
Hart Jansson	Malnutrition Matters	Fortified soymilk for improved health in rural Orissa	Canada
Bonifacio Comandante	Buhi Marine Worldwide Supply, Inc.	Two Cents Worth for Hidden Hunger	Philippines
Landerson Santana	ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency)	Improving Food Security in Semi-Arid Zones of Bahia, Brazil	Brazil
Helen Hallstrom	ADPP Mozambique	Increasing Nutrition in rural communities through soya milk production	Mozambique
Maria Magdalena Velasco	Nueva Vida	Nueva Vida – a model for change and a new beginning for a healthier community	United States

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