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This note comes from a colleague at Purdue. The Healthcare Innovation Challenge sounds like an ideal competition for Cleveland and Akron.

My guess is that Purdue will be competing through our Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. The Purdue Center for Regional Development has partnered with Regenstrief on a healthy workforce initiative.

The announcement follows:

As a leading healthcare company or healthcare educator, you are invited to participate in this exciting new event that promises to bring together the best minds from a variety of disciplines to solve real-world healthcare challenges.

Our YOU-Tube link for short video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdlWu9uuFHM

Healthcare companies are invited to take advantage of this unique opportunity to highlight their company and become actively involved in healthcare innovation. Gain fresh solutions to healthcare problems, recruit top talent in the field, and build company awareness.

Healthcare educators can take advantage of the Challenge to infuse healthcare innovation into an exciting learning opportunity for students. Faculty may want to incorporate this Challenge into student coursework. Deans of healthcare related programs, please forward this to all your faculty and students.

What is the Healthcare Innovation Challenge?

· Inter-disciplinary student team competition focused on healthcare challenges
· All universities with healthcare-related programs are invited to form competing teams
· Team formation and online competition runs throughout Spring Semester 2009
· Six finalist teams will be awarded an all-expense-paid trip to Phoenix to compete in the final Event, May 1, 2009. In addition, an $8,000 prize will be awarded to the winning team.
· Several nationally recognized healthcare innovation experts will speak at this event, which will be attended by students, healthcare companies and educators from around the country.
· Co-hosted by the Arizona State University Center for Healthcare Innovation & Clinical Trials and Idea Crossing, a company with a proven track record of sponsoring successful innovation competitions

How do Sponsors participate?
There are six different levels of Sponsorship. See the attached Sponsor Brochure for complete information or go to the website at http://healthcare.innovationchallenge.com/ .

1. Board ($25K)
2. Judge ($10K)
3. Spectator ($5K)
4. Event ($varies)
5. Team ($8K)
6. Non-Profit and/or Academic organizations ($1K)

How do Teams participate?
To compete in this Spring Semester 2009 competition, each team must complete the steps below. See the attached Student Brochure for complete information or go to the website at http://healthcare.innovationchallenge.com/ .

1) Form your team and register online (February 2009): $100 early registration; $125 regular registration

2) Develop your Concept Plan (March 2009)

3) Submit Concept Plan for judging phases (March/April 2009)

4) Watch for announcement of finalist teams (April 2009)

5) If selected as a top team, attend final judging Event at ASU (May 1, 2009)

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