Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has launched its ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge, which will accelerate the use of innovative IT solutions with the potential to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience. “The ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge taps into the desire of Canadians and their clinicians to develop and spread innovations that improve healthcare,”saidRichardAlvarez,President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway. The Outcomes Challenge offers more than $1 000 000 in awards to teams whose solutions are used most and those with the strongest growth in users in any of the four Challenge categories: 1) e-scheduling; 2) patient access to health information; 3) medication reconciliation; and 4) clinical synoptic reporting. Challenges are a good way of eliciting and spreading innovation. Infoway has committed to engage in open challenges to encourage broader innovation in a cost-effective and timely way, while fostering a community of innovators across the country. To learn more, visit http:// www.imaginenationchallenge.ca.
