We are really excited to announce that two of the Hacking Medicine teams (OnMotion and Podimetrics) from just a week and a half ago made it to the Elevator Pitch Competition finals this week and Podimetrics won the runner up award as well as the audience choice award. Congrats!!!

In the spirit of next steps we wanted to make sure everyone saw the upcoming Go Viral competition:
Based on the success of last spring’s event, the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering are sponsoring the 2nd annual Go Viral to Improve Health: Health Data Collegiate Challenge. Working in interdisciplinary teams that meld technological skills with health knowledge, college and health professional students can generate powerful apps to improve health for individuals and communities. A video of last year’s first-place winners presenting their app, Sleep Bot, at the 2011 Health Data Initiative Forum can be found here. Information about eligibility, judging criteria, and registration is available on the IOM webpage, www.iom.edu/goviral, and the Facebook page, www.facebook.com/goviraltoimprovehealth. This year, a total of $10,000 in prizes will be available to the student teams who develop the best new health apps. Team registration is open until February 10, 2012.