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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Designation of a Class of Employees
for Addition to the Special Exposure
Cohort
Announcement of the Requirements
and Registration for the Healthy New
Year Challenge
By direction of the Commission.
Richard C. Donohue,
Acting Secretary.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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ACTION:
Notice.
HHS gives notice of a
decision to designate a class of
employees from the Pantex Plant in
Amarillo, Texas, as an addition to the
Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under
the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000. On December 21, 2011, the
Secretary of HHS designated the
following class of employees as an
addition to the SEC:
SUMMARY:
All employees of the Department of
Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their
contractors and subcontractors who worked
at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas,
during the period from January 1, 1958
through December 31, 1983, for a number of
work days aggregating at least 250 work days,
occurring either solely under this
employment or in combination with work
days within the parameters established for
one or more other classes of employees
included in the SEC.
This designation will become
effective on January 20, 2012 unless
Congress provides otherwise prior to the
effective date. After this effective date,
HHS will publish a notice in the
Federal Register reporting the addition
of this class to the SEC or the result of
any provision by Congress regarding the
decision by HHS to add the class to the
SEC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division
of Compensation Analysis and Support,
NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C–
46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 1–
(877) 222–7570. Information requests
can also be submitted by email to
DCAS@CDC.GOV.
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Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Erin
Poetter, Consumer e-Health Policy
Analyst.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC), part of the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), is announcing the
launch of the Healthy New Year
Challenge. This challenge is an open
call for people nationwide to create and
submit short videos that capture New
Year’s resolutions geared towards
improving their health or the health of
a loved one through the use of
technology. The Healthy New Year
Challenge is the first in a series of video
contests for the public to share their
personal stories about how they use
health information technology (health
IT) or consumer e-health tools to impact
their health or the health of a loved one.
The goal of this video contest series is
to generate winning videos that will be
used to motivate and inspire others and
their loved ones to use health
information technology to be more
engaged partners in improving health
and health care. Each challenge will be
a call to action for members of the
public to create a short video clip [2
minutes or less] on a particular theme,
and will award cash prizes to winners
in several categories.
DATES: Important date(s) for this
challenge are:
Submission Period: today–February
16, 2012.
Public Voting: today–March 8, 2012.
Judging: February 23–March 8, 2012.
Winners Announced: Mid-March
2012.
SUMMARY:
Erin
Poetter, Consumer e-Health Policy
Analyst, ONC, HHS,
erin.poetter@hhs.gov or (202) 205–3310.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition:
Entrants are asked to create a short,
compelling video (up to 2 minutes in
length) sharing one New Year’s
resolution for improving your health or
the health of a loved one, and how you
will use technology to achieve your
resolution. Videos should be creative,
inspiring and instructive—share a new
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years resolution that others can relate to,
and demonstrate how technology will
make it easier to achieve.
Your resolution can be anything
health related, such as quitting smoking
or drinking, eating healthier, losing
weight, reducing stress, or managing a
chronic condition.
Videos must show how you will use
information technology to achieve your
resolution. Example entries could
include the following kinds of
resolutions (these are just examples—
Entrants are encouraged to be creative
and craft their own resolution):
• I will set up an online personal
health record for myself (or another
family member) so I can have all of my
health information conveniently stored
in one place.
• I will ask my doctor for a copy of
my own health records—electronically
if available—and help him or her to
identify any important information that
may be missing or need to be corrected.
• I will find an online community
that helps me figure out the best ways
to manage my health condition
(depression, cancer, diabetes, etc.).
• I will use a wireless pedometer to
help me track my physical activity and
will try to take 10,000 steps per day.
• I will find an app on my
Smartphone to help me track my food
intake so I can lose 10 pounds by my
high school reunion.
• I will sign up for a text reminder
program on my cell phone to help me
stop smoking or remind me to take my
medications on time.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in
the Competition:
To be eligible to win a prize under
this Challenge, an individual or team—
1. Shall have registered to participate
in the Challenge under these Official
Rules;
2. Shall have complied with all the
requirements set forth herein;
3. Shall be at least eighteen (18) years
old at the time of entry;
4. Shall be a citizen or permanent
resident of the United States; and
5. May not be a Federal entity or
Federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment.
6. Shall not be an employee of ONC
7. Federal grantees may not use
Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless
consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.’’]
8. Federal contractors may not use
Federal funds from a contract to develop
COMPETES Act challenge applications
or to fund efforts in support of a
COMPETES Act challenge submission.
All individual members of a team
must meet the eligibility requirements.
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(Note: ‘‘Team members’’ do not include
people whose only contribution is
appearing in the video. Minors can
appear in the video, as long as the
necessary consent forms are provided.)
An individual or team shall not be
deemed ineligible because the
individual or team used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and teams
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.
An individual may join more than one
team.
Employees of ONC, the judges, and
ChallengePost, Inc. (collectively the
‘‘Promotion Entities’’) or any of the
Promotion Entities’ respective affiliates,
subsidiaries, advertising agencies, or
any other company or individual
involved with the design, production,
execution, or distribution of the
Challenge and their immediate family
(spouse, parents and step-parents,
siblings and step-siblings, and children
and step-children), and household
members (people who share the same
residence at least three (3) months out
of the year) of each Promotion Entity
employee are not eligible.
The Challenge is subject to all
applicable federal laws and regulations.
Participation constitutes Contestant’s
full and unconditional agreement to
these Official Rules and Sponsor’s and
Administrator’s decisions, which are
final and binding in all matters related
to the Challenge.
Registration Process for Participants:
During the Challenge Submission
Period, visit
HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov and
register. Registration is free. After a
Contestant registers, he or she must
verify their email address via the
registration email sent to the email
entered in the registration form. A
registered Contestant will then be able
to enter a Submission. A Contestant will
be required to fill out the submission
form on HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov
and must provide:
• The title of your Video;
• A link to your Video on
YouTube.com or Vimeo.com (your
Video should be less than 2 minutes
long)
There is also a mandatory ‘text
description field’ that you may choose
to use to provide a text description of
your healthy New Year’s resolution,
how you will use health IT to achieve
it, and how you plan to keep and
maintain the resolution.
All individuals that appear in a Video
must complete and sign the Video
Consent Form. If a minor appears in the
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Video, the minor’s parent/legal guardian
must also sign the Video Consent Form.
A Submission will not be considered
complete and eligible to win prizes
without a completed Video Consent
Form being uploaded from all
individuals that appear in the Video. All
completed Video Consent Forms must
include a handwritten signature, and be
scanned, combined in to a single file,
and uploaded on the submission form
on HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov.
AMOUNT OF THE PRIZE
Winner
First Prize .................
Second Prize ............
Third Prize ................
Honorable Mention ...
Popular Choice .........
Prize
$2,000
1,000
500
250
750
Quantity
1
1
1
3
1
If a team of individuals is selected as
a prize winner, the prize will be
awarded to the lead representative of
the team and it will be up to him or her
to split or appropriately allocate the
prize. On award, the lead representative
of the group will provide his or her full
legal name, social security number, and
information for the bank account that
will receive the prize money.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be
Selected:
An internal panel will judge the
Submissions on the criteria identified
below to select the prize winner in each
category. All judging will take place
between on or about February 24, 2012
at 10 a.m. EST and March 9, 2012 at 5
p.m. EST.
The following information details the
commitment of judges:
• Judges will be fair and impartial.
• A judge may not have a personal or
financial interest in, or be an employee,
officer, director, or agent of any entity
that is a registered participant in the
competition.
• A judge may not have a familial or
financial relationship with an
individual who is a registered
Contestant.
Odds of winning depend on the
number of eligible Submissions received
and the quality of Submissions.
First, Second, Third, and Honorable
Mention Prizes—
An internal panel of judges will
evaluate each Submission on the
following three criteria:
1. Quality of the Idea (Includes
elements such as the relevance and
originality of your plan to use health IT)
2. Implementation of the Idea
(Includes elements such as the quality
of the video content, narrative and
visual appearance)
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3. Potential Impact on health IT
adoption (Includes whether the video is
compelling, instructive, and easy to
follow so that others are motivated or
inspired to work to achieve a similar
resolution using health technology)
The six (6) Contestant whose
Submissions earn the highest overall
scores will win, respectively, the prize
money identified in the ‘Amount of
Prize’ section. In the event of a tie,
winners will be selected based on the
criteria described in (1), then (2), and
finally (3). If there is still a tie then the
winner will be selected based on a vote
by the judging panel.
Additional Information:
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Submission Requirements
• The Video must be no longer than
2 minutes
• The Video must focus on only one
health related New Year’s resolution
• The Video must show how
information technology will be used to
help achieve the resolution. Technology
use may include electronic health
records (EHRs), personal health records
(PHRs), e-prescribing technology, and
consumer e-health tools (health Web
sites, mobile apps, email/text reminders,
online communities, and other software
applications).
• The Video must include a
description of how you plan to
maintain/keep your New Year’s
resolution
• The Video must direct, at any point
during the Video, people to the Web site
www.HealthIT.gov for more information.
• The Submission may be
disqualified if the resolution and
technology idea presented in the Video
are not the same as or closely related to
what is described in the text
description.
• The Contestant cannot make any
changes or alterations to the Submission
once the Submission Period has ended.
• Submissions which in Sponsor and/
or Administrator’s sole discretion are
determined to be substantially similar to
a prior submitted entry in the Challenge
will be disqualified.
• Submissions must be original, be
the work of the Contestant, and must
not violate the rights of other parties.
Each Contestant represents and warrants
that he or she is the sole author and
owner of the Submission, that the
Submission is wholly original with the
Contestant, that it does not infringe any
copyright or any other rights of any
third party of which the Contestant is
aware, and is free of malware.
• The Administrator has the right to
request access to the Video file to verify
any criteria about the Submission.
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• Submissions containing any matter
which in the sole discretion of the
Sponsor, Administrator and Judges is in
obvious bad taste, which demonstrates a
lack of respect for public morals or
conduct, or which adversely affects the
reputation of the Sponsor will not be
accepted. If the Sponsor, Administrator,
or judges, in their discretion, find any
Submission to be unacceptable, then
such Submission shall be deemed
disqualified.
• All Submissions must be in English.
• The Video cannot have been
submitted previously in a promotion or
contest of any kind, or previously
exhibited or displayed publicly through
any means.
• The Video may be submitted in
only one category.
• The Video should not include any
personal identification information
about those in the Video (e.g., full name,
address, social security number, etc.).
• The video must not contain more
than one instance or mention of a
commercial business, industry name,
brand name, product placement or other
trademark. Videos entered for the
purpose of commercial promotion may
be disqualified by the Sponsor,
Administrator, or judges, in their
discretion.
• The Video must not contain
material that violates or infringes
another’s rights, including but not
limited to privacy, publicity, or
intellectual property rights, or material
that constitutes copyright or license
infringement.
• The Video must not contain
material that is inappropriate, indecent,
obscene, hateful, defamatory,
slanderous, or libelous.
• The Video must not contain
material that promotes bigotry, racism,
hatred, or harm against any group or
individual, or that promotes
discrimination based on race, sex,
religion, nationality, disability, sexual
orientation, or age.
• The Video must not contain
material that violates any applicable
law.
Submission Rights:
Each Contestant grants to ONC, the
Administrator, and others acting on
behalf of ONC, an irrevocable, royaltyfree, non-exclusive worldwide license to
use, copy for use, distribute, display
publicly, perform publicly, create
derivative works, and license others to
do so for the purpose of the Challenge
until one year after the announcement
of winners. This license includes
posting or linking to the Submission on
the official ONC and Administrator Web
sites and Web sites of others who have
agreed to promote the Challenge, and
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making it available for use by the
public.
Verification of Potential Winners
All potential challenge winners are
subject to verification by sponsor and/
or administrator whose decisions are
final and binding in all matters related
to the challenge. Potential winners must
continue to comply with all terms and
conditions of these Official Rules, and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements. The potential winners
will be notified by email, telephone, or
mail after the date of the judging. The
potential winners will be required to
sign and return to Sponsor, within ten
(10) days of the date notice is sent, an
Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/
Publicity Release (except where
prohibited) in order to claim his or her
prize. If a potential winner of any prize
cannot be contacted, fails to sign and
return the Affidavit of Eligibility and
Liability/Publicity Release within the
required time period (if applicable), or
if the prize or prize notification is
returned as undeliverable, the potential
winner forfeits prize. In the event that
a potential winner of a Challenge prize
is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor
may award the applicable prize to the
Contestant whose Submission earned
the highest score of the remaining of the
eligible entries.
Publicity
Except where prohibited,
participation in the Challenge
constitutes the winning Contestants’
consent to the use of its name, likeness,
photograph, voice, opinions, and/or
hometown and state by the Sponsor and
its agents for promotional purposes in
any media, worldwide, without further
payment or consideration.
General Conditions
Sponsor and Administrator reserve
the right to cancel, suspend and/or
modify the Challenge, or any part of it,
if any fraud, technical failures, or any
other factor impairs the integrity or
proper functioning of the Challenge.
Sponsor and/or Administrator reserve
the right in their sole discretion to
disqualify any individual or Competitor
it finds to be tampering with the entry
process or the operation of the
Challenge or to be acting in violation of
these Official Rules or any other
promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or
disruptive manner. Any attempt by any
person to deliberately undermine the
legitimate operation of the Challenge
may be a violation of criminal and civil
law, and, should such an attempt be
made, Sponsor and/or Administrator
reserves the right to seek damages from
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any such person to the fullest extent
permitted by law. Sponsor and/or
Administrator’s failure to enforce any
term of these Official Rules shall not
constitute a waiver of that provision.
Sponsor and Administrator are not
responsible for, nor are they required to
count, incomplete, late, misdirected,
damaged, unlawful or illicit votes,
including those secured through
payment, votes achieved through
automated means or by registering more
than one email account and name, using
another Contestant’s email account and
name, as well as those lost for technical
reasons or otherwise.
Privacy
Sponsor collects personal information
from you when you enter the Challenge.
The information collected is subject to
the ChallengePost privacy policy
located at www.challengepost.com/
privacy.
Participation in this Challenge
constitutes a contestant’s full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the
Challenge’s Official Rules found at
www.Challenge.gov and https://
healthynewyear.challenge.gov/rules.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: January 6, 2012.
Erin Poetter,
Consumer e-Health Policy Analyst, Office of
the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
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In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
announces the following meeting of the
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11 a.m.–5:30 p.m., February 9, 2012.
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Dated: January 11, 2012.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Disease, Disability, and Injury
Prevention and Control Special
Emphasis Panel (SEP): Grants for
Injury Control Research Centers (Panel
2), Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) CE12–001, Initial
Review
In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the aforementioned SEP:
Time and Date: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., February
21–22, 2012 (Closed).
Place: Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter
Hotel at Ravinia, 4355 Ashford Dunwoody
Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30346 Telephone:
(770) 395–7700.
Status: The meeting will be closed to the
public in accordance with provisions set
forth in Section 552b(c)(4) and (6), Title 5
U.S.C., and the Determination of the Director,
Management Analysis and Services Office,
CDC, pursuant to Public Law 92–463.
Matters To Be Discussed: The meeting will
include the initial review, discussion, and
evaluation of applications received in
response to ‘‘Grants for Injury Control
Research Centers, Panel 2, FOA CE12–001’’.
Contact Person for More Information: Jane
Suen, Dr. P.H., M.S., Scientific Review
Officer, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE.,
Mailstop F63, Atlanta, Georgia 30341–3724,
Telephone (770) 488–4281.
The Director, Management Analysis and
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authority to sign Federal Register notices
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other committee management activities, for
both the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: January 11, 2012.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Status: This meeting is open to the public.
The meeting room accommodates
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processed in accordance with established
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Purpose: This committee is charged with
providing advice and making
recommendations to the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human Services;
the Director, CDC; and the Director, NCHS,
regarding the scientific and technical
program goals and objectives, strategies, and
priorities of NCHS.
Matters to be Discussed: The agenda will
include welcome remarks by the Director,
NCHS; review of the ambulatory and hospital
care statistics program; a discussion of the
NHANES genetics program and an open
session for comments from the public.
Requests to make oral presentations should
be submitted in writing to the contact person
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Written comments should not exceed five
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The agenda items are subject to change as
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of the Requirements and Registration for the Healthy
New Year Challenge
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Erin Poetter, Consumer e-Health Policy
Analyst.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC), part of the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), is announcing the launch of the Healthy New Year Challenge. This
challenge is an open call for people nationwide to create and submit
short videos that capture New Year's resolutions geared towards
improving their health or the health of a loved one through the use of
technology. The Healthy New Year Challenge is the first in a series of
video contests for the public to share their personal stories about how
they use health information technology (health IT) or consumer e-health
tools to impact their health or the health of a loved one. The goal of
this video contest series is to generate winning videos that will be
used to motivate and inspire others and their loved ones to use health
information technology to be more engaged partners in improving health
and health care. Each challenge will be a call to action for members of
the public to create a short video clip [2 minutes or less] on a
particular theme, and will award cash prizes to winners in several
categories.
DATES: Important date(s) for this challenge are:
Submission Period: today-February 16, 2012.
Public Voting: today-March 8, 2012.
Judging: February 23-March 8, 2012.
Winners Announced: Mid-March 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Poetter, Consumer e-Health Policy
Analyst, ONC, HHS, erin.poetter@hhs.gov or (202) 205-3310.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition: Entrants are asked to create a
short, compelling video (up to 2 minutes in length) sharing one New
Year's resolution for improving your health or the health of a loved
one, and how you will use technology to achieve your resolution. Videos
should be creative, inspiring and instructive--share a new
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years resolution that others can relate to, and demonstrate how
technology will make it easier to achieve.
Your resolution can be anything health related, such as quitting
smoking or drinking, eating healthier, losing weight, reducing stress,
or managing a chronic condition.
Videos must show how you will use information technology to achieve
your resolution. Example entries could include the following kinds of
resolutions (these are just examples--Entrants are encouraged to be
creative and craft their own resolution):
I will set up an online personal health record for myself
(or another family member) so I can have all of my health information
conveniently stored in one place.
I will ask my doctor for a copy of my own health records--
electronically if available--and help him or her to identify any
important information that may be missing or need to be corrected.
I will find an online community that helps me figure out
the best ways to manage my health condition (depression, cancer,
diabetes, etc.).
I will use a wireless pedometer to help me track my
physical activity and will try to take 10,000 steps per day.
I will find an app on my Smartphone to help me track my
food intake so I can lose 10 pounds by my high school reunion.
I will sign up for a text reminder program on my cell
phone to help me stop smoking or remind me to take my medications on
time.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition:
To be eligible to win a prize under this Challenge, an individual
or team--
1. Shall have registered to participate in the Challenge under
these Official Rules;
2. Shall have complied with all the requirements set forth herein;
3. Shall be at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry;
4. Shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;
and
5. May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment.
6. Shall not be an employee of ONC
7. Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.'']
8. Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract to
develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
All individual members of a team must meet the eligibility
requirements. (Note: ``Team members'' do not include people whose only
contribution is appearing in the video. Minors can appear in the video,
as long as the necessary consent forms are provided.)
An individual or team shall not be deemed ineligible because the
individual or team used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and teams participating in the competition
on an equitable basis.
An individual may join more than one team.
Employees of ONC, the judges, and ChallengePost, Inc. (collectively
the ``Promotion Entities'') or any of the Promotion Entities'
respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, or any other
company or individual involved with the design, production, execution,
or distribution of the Challenge and their immediate family (spouse,
parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children and
step-children), and household members (people who share the same
residence at least three (3) months out of the year) of each Promotion
Entity employee are not eligible.
The Challenge is subject to all applicable federal laws and
regulations. Participation constitutes Contestant's full and
unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor's and
Administrator's decisions, which are final and binding in all matters
related to the Challenge.
Registration Process for Participants:
During the Challenge Submission Period, visit
HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov and register. Registration is free. After
a Contestant registers, he or she must verify their email address via
the registration email sent to the email entered in the registration
form. A registered Contestant will then be able to enter a Submission.
A Contestant will be required to fill out the submission form on
HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov and must provide:
The title of your Video;
A link to your Video on YouTube.com or Vimeo.com (your
Video should be less than 2 minutes long)
There is also a mandatory `text description field' that you may
choose to use to provide a text description of your healthy New Year's
resolution, how you will use health IT to achieve it, and how you plan
to keep and maintain the resolution.
All individuals that appear in a Video must complete and sign the
Video Consent Form. If a minor appears in the Video, the minor's
parent/legal guardian must also sign the Video Consent Form. A
Submission will not be considered complete and eligible to win prizes
without a completed Video Consent Form being uploaded from all
individuals that appear in the Video. All completed Video Consent Forms
must include a handwritten signature, and be scanned, combined in to a
single file, and uploaded on the submission form on
HealthyNewYear.Challenge.gov.
Amount of the Prize
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Winner Prize Quantity
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First Prize....................................... $2,000 1
Second Prize...................................... 1,000 1
Third Prize....................................... 500 1
Honorable Mention................................. 250 3
Popular Choice.................................... 750 1
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If a team of individuals is selected as a prize winner, the prize
will be awarded to the lead representative of the team and it will be
up to him or her to split or appropriately allocate the prize. On
award, the lead representative of the group will provide his or her
full legal name, social security number, and information for the bank
account that will receive the prize money.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected:
An internal panel will judge the Submissions on the criteria
identified below to select the prize winner in each category. All
judging will take place between on or about February 24, 2012 at 10
a.m. EST and March 9, 2012 at 5 p.m. EST.
The following information details the commitment of judges:
Judges will be fair and impartial.
A judge may not have a personal or financial interest in,
or be an employee, officer, director, or agent of any entity that is a
registered participant in the competition.
A judge may not have a familial or financial relationship
with an individual who is a registered Contestant.
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Submissions
received and the quality of Submissions.
First, Second, Third, and Honorable Mention Prizes--
An internal panel of judges will evaluate each Submission on the
following three criteria:
1. Quality of the Idea (Includes elements such as the relevance and
originality of your plan to use health IT)
2. Implementation of the Idea (Includes elements such as the
quality of the video content, narrative and visual appearance)
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3. Potential Impact on health IT adoption (Includes whether the
video is compelling, instructive, and easy to follow so that others are
motivated or inspired to work to achieve a similar resolution using
health technology)
The six (6) Contestant whose Submissions earn the highest overall
scores will win, respectively, the prize money identified in the
`Amount of Prize' section. In the event of a tie, winners will be
selected based on the criteria described in (1), then (2), and finally
(3). If there is still a tie then the winner will be selected based on
a vote by the judging panel.
Additional Information:
Submission Requirements
The Video must be no longer than 2 minutes
The Video must focus on only one health related New Year's
resolution
The Video must show how information technology will be
used to help achieve the resolution. Technology use may include
electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs), e-
prescribing technology, and consumer e-health tools (health Web sites,
mobile apps, email/text reminders, online communities, and other
software applications).
The Video must include a description of how you plan to
maintain/keep your New Year's resolution
The Video must direct, at any point during the Video,
people to the Web site www.HealthIT.gov for more information.
The Submission may be disqualified if the resolution and
technology idea presented in the Video are not the same as or closely
related to what is described in the text description.
The Contestant cannot make any changes or alterations to
the Submission once the Submission Period has ended.
Submissions which in Sponsor and/or Administrator's sole
discretion are determined to be substantially similar to a prior
submitted entry in the Challenge will be disqualified.
Submissions must be original, be the work of the
Contestant, and must not violate the rights of other parties. Each
Contestant represents and warrants that he or she is the sole author
and owner of the Submission, that the Submission is wholly original
with the Contestant, that it does not infringe any copyright or any
other rights of any third party of which the Contestant is aware, and
is free of malware.
The Administrator has the right to request access to the
Video file to verify any criteria about the Submission.
Submissions containing any matter which in the sole
discretion of the Sponsor, Administrator and Judges is in obvious bad
taste, which demonstrates a lack of respect for public morals or
conduct, or which adversely affects the reputation of the Sponsor will
not be accepted. If the Sponsor, Administrator, or judges, in their
discretion, find any Submission to be unacceptable, then such
Submission shall be deemed disqualified.
All Submissions must be in English.
The Video cannot have been submitted previously in a
promotion or contest of any kind, or previously exhibited or displayed
publicly through any means.
The Video may be submitted in only one category.
The Video should not include any personal identification
information about those in the Video (e.g., full name, address, social
security number, etc.).
The video must not contain more than one instance or
mention of a commercial business, industry name, brand name, product
placement or other trademark. Videos entered for the purpose of
commercial promotion may be disqualified by the Sponsor, Administrator,
or judges, in their discretion.
The Video must not contain material that violates or
infringes another's rights, including but not limited to privacy,
publicity, or intellectual property rights, or material that
constitutes copyright or license infringement.
The Video must not contain material that is inappropriate,
indecent, obscene, hateful, defamatory, slanderous, or libelous.
The Video must not contain material that promotes bigotry,
racism, hatred, or harm against any group or individual, or that
promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality,
disability, sexual orientation, or age.
The Video must not contain material that violates any
applicable law.
Submission Rights:
Each Contestant grants to ONC, the Administrator, and others acting
on behalf of ONC, an irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive worldwide
license to use, copy for use, distribute, display publicly, perform
publicly, create derivative works, and license others to do so for the
purpose of the Challenge until one year after the announcement of
winners. This license includes posting or linking to the Submission on
the official ONC and Administrator Web sites and Web sites of others
who have agreed to promote the Challenge, and making it available for
use by the public.
Verification of Potential Winners
All potential challenge winners are subject to verification by
sponsor and/or administrator whose decisions are final and binding in
all matters related to the challenge. Potential winners must continue
to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The potential
winners will be notified by email, telephone, or mail after the date of
the judging. The potential winners will be required to sign and return
to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice is sent, an
Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (except where
prohibited) in order to claim his or her prize. If a potential winner
of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the
Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release within the
required time period (if applicable), or if the prize or prize
notification is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner
forfeits prize. In the event that a potential winner of a Challenge
prize is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor may award the applicable
prize to the Contestant whose Submission earned the highest score of
the remaining of the eligible entries.
Publicity
Except where prohibited, participation in the Challenge constitutes
the winning Contestants' consent to the use of its name, likeness,
photograph, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state by the Sponsor
and its agents for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide,
without further payment or consideration.
General Conditions
Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right to cancel, suspend and/
or modify the Challenge, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical
failures, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper
functioning of the Challenge.
Sponsor and/or Administrator reserve the right in their sole
discretion to disqualify any individual or Competitor it finds to be
tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Challenge or
to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other
promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by
any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the
Challenge may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should
such an attempt be made, Sponsor and/or Administrator reserves the
right to seek damages from
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any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor and/or
Administrator's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules
shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Sponsor and
Administrator are not responsible for, nor are they required to count,
incomplete, late, misdirected, damaged, unlawful or illicit votes,
including those secured through payment, votes achieved through
automated means or by registering more than one email account and name,
using another Contestant's email account and name, as well as those
lost for technical reasons or otherwise.
Privacy
Sponsor collects personal information from you when you enter the
Challenge. The information collected is subject to the ChallengePost
privacy policy located at www.challengepost.com/privacy.
Participation in this Challenge constitutes a contestant's full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the Challenge's Official Rules
found at www.Challenge.gov and https://healthynewyear.challenge.gov/rules.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: January 6, 2012.
Erin Poetter,
Consumer e-Health Policy Analyst, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
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