CIMIT Announces 2012 Prize for Primary Healthcare Competition

Date: 7/28/2011
Contact: cimitprize@partners.org

BOSTON–The Prize for Primary Healthcare is an annual national competition encouraging engineering students to develop creative technological innovations with great potential to catalyze and support improved delivery of care at the frontlines of medicine. It is open to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in accredited engineering programs.

Technologies of particular interest are ones that could improve access to medical care, leverage the skill of caregivers, automate routine tasks, increase workflow efficiency, support patients managing chronic disease, increase compliance with care protocols, reduce medical error, or augment the physician-patient relationship.

2012 PRIZE AWARDS
First Prize	$150,000
Second Prize	$100,000
Third Prize	$50,000
Ten Finalists	$10,00 each

2012 RFA SUPPORING DOCUMENTS & INSTRUCTIONS
1. Request for Applications (RFA) Letter of Intent Guidelines 2. Coversheet 3. Full Proposal Evaluation Criteria 4. Full Proposal Guidelines 5. 2012 Prize for Primary Healthcare Flyer 6. Frequently Asked Questions

This Prize for Primary Healthcare competition is sponsored by the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust. CIMIT is a non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools.