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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for ‘‘The Million Hearts
Risk Check Challenge’’
and the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT, we are
reaching out to the millions of
Americans who have significant risks
for CVD and do not know it, and those
that suspect it but have not yet
overcome the inertia to act on their
concern. By connecting these
individuals to pharmacies for lipid and
blood pressure screenings, we are
intending to make it easy for them to
turn their back-of-mind worries into
personal knowledge and then help them
hook into the delivery system if
necessary.
This new campaign and technology
product will follow three steps:
1. Reach out to individuals across the
country, taking special aim at those who
may be at risk for CVD and don’t know
it.
2. Conduct a ‘‘light’’ health risk
assessment that roughly estimates risk
in an engaging interface and then
‘‘hooks’’ the user by showing that with
the addition of LDL and BP readings,
the accuracy of the risk assessment
could be much more robust. This is
done to drive folks to scale the next
hurdle: The BP and blood test.
3. Direct individuals to nearby,
convenient options for biometric
screenings. National pharmacies and
others will offer locations and special
offers for this step.
The statutory authority for this
challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public L.
111–358).
DATES: Effective on July 27, 2012.
Challenge submission period ends
October 31, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Wong, 202–720–2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Subject of Challenge Competition
In communities across
America, there are thousands of
convenient and inexpensive ways to
know your risk for heart-related
conditions—often, all it takes is making
an appointment for a screening with
your doctor or pharmacies. But,
according to recent studies, up to 1 in
3 people at risk for cardiovascular
disease (CVD) have not been screened
and are therefore less likely to take
preventative action. Through an
initiative sponsored by Million Hearts
The purpose of the challenge is
threefold:
1. Encourage further testing
(specifically lipids and BP), especially
for those with some risk,
2. Encourage lifestyle changes for
those at some risk, and
3. Encourage seeing a health
professional if they are at high risk.
In order to engage individuals about
their heart risk, and then connect them
with nearby options for a biometric
screening, we require a new consumer
app. Developers will have access to, and
will need to hew closely to, two sources
of content when responding to the
challenge and designing the app:
1. A new Application Programming
Interface (API) for conducting the
‘‘light’’ health risk assessment over a
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
AWARD APPROVING OFFICIAL: Farzad
Mostashari, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
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consumer-facing interface, hosted by
Archimedes and built using their Indigo
product.
2. Locations (and specific descriptors)
of places where individuals can go for
a lipid and blood pressure screening,
made available through flat files from
Million Hearts and a new API hosted by
Surescripts.
Each of these source APIs are
described in more detail at the challenge
registration sites. Unlike some other
challenges, HHS would like to formally
‘‘sponsor’’ the winning app. For this
reason, it will be important (and it is
part of the reviewing criteria) for
applicants to follow the inputs and
outputs of the two APIs specifically.
The app should begin with a ‘‘light’’
health risk assessment, designed to
engage individuals by asking them
personal questions about their health.
To conduct the ‘‘light’’ health risk
assessment, the app should ask
questions to follow the required inputs
of the Archimedes API (see registration
sites and https://demoindigo4health.archimedesmodel.com
and https://demoindigo4health.archimedesmodel.com/
IndiGO4Health/IndiGO4Health). The
app should also ask whether the
individual has recent data on their
blood pressure and cholesterol
measurements (biomarker data). Once
an individual has entered complete data
including blood pressure and
cholesterol measurements, the app
should generate and communicate the
individual’s risk.
In the case that the user does not enter
blood pressure and cholesterol values,
after prompting individuals about the
importance of a blood pressure and
lipid screening, the app should then
prompt them to enter their address (or
use a device-enabled technology for
getting their latitude and longitude such
as the iPhone’s ‘‘current location’’
feature). The app should send
individuals the closest locations where
they can go for a risk screening in a
map-like output. Screening locations
will be provided from two sources.
1. Through an API from the
Surescripts Corporation. This API will
be located on the Surescripts network,
where it can be accessed by developers
working on responding to this
challenge, and available for free to the
winning app throughout the campaign
period. See registration sites for specific
detail on the API. This information will
also be available via the Million Hearts
Challenge Web site.
2. Flat file, which the developers will
receive from participating cities and/or
HHS, and will be expected to make
available to users via the app.
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Developers should create an app that
uses locations from both sources, and
which feeds the closest locations back to
the individual.
After connecting individuals with the
screening locations, the app should do
everything it can to get them to
complete the screening. Periodically
after connecting individuals to the
screening locations, the app should
follow-up on whether they have
completed their lipid and blood
pressure screening. Once the
individuals indicate that they have
completed their screening, the app
should prompt them to enter the values
from the blood pressure and lipid
screening. Based on these values, and
based on the Archimedes API, the app
should then update the risk score and
the communication of this risk to the
individual.
After communicating the risk, the app
should provide information about
possible approaches to reducing that
risk relevant to that individual. The
Archimedes API will provide a series of
possible interventions associated and
associated risk reduction values.
Along with their app submission,
entrants must submit a plan for how
they will operationalize and sustain
their product, and how many users they
are capable of supporting, throughout
the length of a 12-month promotional
campaign associated with this product.
The winning app may have the
opportunity to be heavily promoted in
a campaign supported by the
Department of Health and Human
Services, the Million Hearts Initiative,
and their partners. As a focal point of
this campaign, Million Hearts will
maintain a Web site that will route
consumers to apps that it sponsors. The
Web site will be promoted prominently
throughout the campaign. The winning
app may have the opportunity to receive
routings from this Web site.
Although apps are not likely to collect
personally identifiable health
information, submissions should
consider relevant privacy and security
issues, laws, and policies, and ensure
apps include appropriate privacy and
security protections where necessary.
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Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under
this challenge, an individual or entity—
(1) Shall have registered to participate
in the competition under the rules
promulgated by the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section.
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(3) In the case of a private entity, shall
be incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, and in the case of an individual,
whether participating singly or in a
group, shall be a citizen or permanent
resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or
Federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee
working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty
hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office
of the National Coordinator for Health
IT.
(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.
An individual or entity shall not be
deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any
and all risks and waive claims against
the Federal Government and its related
entities, except in the case of willful
misconduct, for any injury, death,
damage, or loss of property, revenue, or
profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my
participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify
the Federal Government against third
party claims for damages arising from or
related to competition activities.
A contingency for entering the contest
and submitting an app is that the
winning app must be available for free,
to all users, until December 31, 2013.
This includes hosting and maintaining
the Web service in a scalable format,
providing technical support with bug
fixes, and so on.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge
participants should either:
D Access the www.challenge.gov Web
site and search for ‘‘The Million Hearts
Risk Check Challenge’’.
D Access the ONC Investing in
Innovation (i2) Challenge Web site at:
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Æ https://www.health2con.com/
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Æ A registration link for the challenge
can be found on the landing page under
the challenge description.
Amount of the Prize
D $5,000 each for up to five finalists
D $100,000 to the winner
Awards may be subject to Federal
income taxes and HHS will comply with
IRS withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be
Selected
The ONC review panel will make
selections based upon the following
criteria:
1. How well the apps follow the
specific input and output requirements
of the two APIs
2. Effectiveness in getting individuals
to answer all the questions for the initial
risk assessment
3. Effectiveness in communicating
initial risk to individuals, based on
guidelines provided by Archimedes API
4. Effectiveness in encouraging further
testing (specifically lipids and BP),
especially for those with some risk
5. Effectiveness in communicating
final risk to individuals, based on
guidelines provided by Archimedes API
6. Effectiveness in encouraging
lifestyle changes for those at some risk
7. Effectiveness in encouraging seeing
a health professional if they are at high
risk
8. How user-friendly, engaging, and
accessible the app is, for the largest and
most demographically-diverse group of
people possible. Which app is the most
likely to get the largest number of
people to know their full cardiovascular
risk?
9. Submissions will be judged for
their operating plans for the year, and
their likelihood of the submitter in
successfully maintaining the app to
support the campaign. Has the entrant
provided a viable plan for initial and
ongoing technical capacity to meet
projected usage as well as for support,
maintenance and enhancement of the
application?
10. Demonstration of submitter’s
current or prior ability to engage
consumers.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is
determined by the following:
D Each entrant retains title and full
ownership in and to their submission.
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Entrants expressly reserve all
intellectual property rights not
expressly granted under the challenge
agreement.
D By participating in the challenge,
each entrant hereby irrevocably grants
to Sponsor and Administrator a limited,
non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide,
license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display,
and use the Submission to the extent
necessary to administer the challenge,
and to publically perform and
publically display the Submission,
including, without limitation, for
advertising and promotional purposes
relating to the challenge.
D The winning app must be available
for free, to all users, until December 31,
2013. This includes hosting and
maintaining the Web service in a
scalable format, providing technical
support with bug fixes, and so on.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: July 17, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology.
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delegated to the Director, Center for
Global Health, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) without
authority to redelegate, the authority
vested in the Director, CDC, under
section 307 of the Public Health Service
(PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242(1)).
This delegation became effective upon
date of signature. I hereby affirm and
ratify any actions taken that involve the
exercise of the authorities delegated
herein prior to the effective date of this
delegation.
Dated: July 3, 2012.
Thomas R. Frieden,
Director, CDC.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Senior
Medicare Patrol (SMP) Program
Outcome Measurement
Administration for Community
Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Community Living (ACL) is announcing
an opportunity for public comment on
the proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the
PRA), Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for
public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on
the information collection requirements
relating to Senior Medicare Patrol
Program outcome measurement.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by October 1, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic
comments on the collection of
information to:
doris.summey@aoa.hhs.gov.
Submit written comments on the
collection of information to
Administration for Community Living,
Washington, DC 20201. Attention: Doris
Summey.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Summey, by telephone 202–357–
3533 or by email:
doris.summey@aoa.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal
agencies must obtain approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined
in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR
1320.3(c) and includes agency request
or requirements that members of the
public submit reports, keep records, or
provide information to a third party.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal
agencies to provide a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
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for approval. To comply with this
requirement, ACL is publishing notice
of the proposed collection of
information set forth in this document.
With respect to the following collection
of information, ACL invites comments
on: (1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of ACL’s functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
ACL’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
Grantees are required by Congress to
provide information for use in program
monitoring and for Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
purposes. This information collection
reports the number of active volunteers,
issues and inquiries received, other
SMP program outreach activities, and
the number of Medicare dollars
recovered among other SMP
performance outcomes.
ACL estimates the burden of this
collection of information as follows: 54
SMP grantees at 23 hours per month
(276 hours per year, per grantee). Total
Estimated Burden Hours: 7,452 hours
per year. The proposed data collection
tool may be found on the AoA Web site
for review at https://www.aoa.gov/
AoARoot/AoA_Programs/
Tools_Resources/Cert_Forms.aspx.
Dated: July 25, 2012.
Kathy Greenlee,
Administrator and Assistant Secretary for
Aging.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``The Million
Hearts Risk Check Challenge''
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
AWARD APPROVING OFFICIAL: Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In communities across America, there are thousands of
convenient and inexpensive ways to know your risk for heart-related
conditions--often, all it takes is making an appointment for a
screening with your doctor or pharmacies. But, according to recent
studies, up to 1 in 3 people at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD)
have not been screened and are therefore less likely to take
preventative action. Through an initiative sponsored by Million Hearts
and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, we are
reaching out to the millions of Americans who have significant risks
for CVD and do not know it, and those that suspect it but have not yet
overcome the inertia to act on their concern. By connecting these
individuals to pharmacies for lipid and blood pressure screenings, we
are intending to make it easy for them to turn their back-of-mind
worries into personal knowledge and then help them hook into the
delivery system if necessary.
This new campaign and technology product will follow three steps:
1. Reach out to individuals across the country, taking special aim
at those who may be at risk for CVD and don't know it.
2. Conduct a ``light'' health risk assessment that roughly
estimates risk in an engaging interface and then ``hooks'' the user by
showing that with the addition of LDL and BP readings, the accuracy of
the risk assessment could be much more robust. This is done to drive
folks to scale the next hurdle: The BP and blood test.
3. Direct individuals to nearby, convenient options for biometric
screenings. National pharmacies and others will offer locations and
special offers for this step.
The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public L. 111-
358).
DATES: Effective on July 27, 2012. Challenge submission period ends
October 31, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The purpose of the challenge is threefold:
1. Encourage further testing (specifically lipids and BP),
especially for those with some risk,
2. Encourage lifestyle changes for those at some risk, and
3. Encourage seeing a health professional if they are at high risk.
In order to engage individuals about their heart risk, and then
connect them with nearby options for a biometric screening, we require
a new consumer app. Developers will have access to, and will need to
hew closely to, two sources of content when responding to the challenge
and designing the app:
1. A new Application Programming Interface (API) for conducting the
``light'' health risk assessment over a consumer-facing interface,
hosted by Archimedes and built using their Indigo product.
2. Locations (and specific descriptors) of places where individuals
can go for a lipid and blood pressure screening, made available through
flat files from Million Hearts and a new API hosted by Surescripts.
Each of these source APIs are described in more detail at the
challenge registration sites. Unlike some other challenges, HHS would
like to formally ``sponsor'' the winning app. For this reason, it will
be important (and it is part of the reviewing criteria) for applicants
to follow the inputs and outputs of the two APIs specifically.
The app should begin with a ``light'' health risk assessment,
designed to engage individuals by asking them personal questions about
their health. To conduct the ``light'' health risk assessment, the app
should ask questions to follow the required inputs of the Archimedes
API (see registration sites and https://demo-indigo4health.archimedesmodel.com and https://demo-indigo4health.archimedesmodel.com/IndiGO4Health/IndiGO4Health). The app
should also ask whether the individual has recent data on their blood
pressure and cholesterol measurements (biomarker data). Once an
individual has entered complete data including blood pressure and
cholesterol measurements, the app should generate and communicate the
individual's risk.
In the case that the user does not enter blood pressure and
cholesterol values, after prompting individuals about the importance of
a blood pressure and lipid screening, the app should then prompt them
to enter their address (or use a device-enabled technology for getting
their latitude and longitude such as the iPhone's ``current location''
feature). The app should send individuals the closest locations where
they can go for a risk screening in a map-like output. Screening
locations will be provided from two sources.
1. Through an API from the Surescripts Corporation. This API will
be located on the Surescripts network, where it can be accessed by
developers working on responding to this challenge, and available for
free to the winning app throughout the campaign period. See
registration sites for specific detail on the API. This information
will also be available via the Million Hearts Challenge Web site.
2. Flat file, which the developers will receive from participating
cities and/or HHS, and will be expected to make available to users via
the app.
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Developers should create an app that uses locations from both
sources, and which feeds the closest locations back to the individual.
After connecting individuals with the screening locations, the app
should do everything it can to get them to complete the screening.
Periodically after connecting individuals to the screening locations,
the app should follow-up on whether they have completed their lipid and
blood pressure screening. Once the individuals indicate that they have
completed their screening, the app should prompt them to enter the
values from the blood pressure and lipid screening. Based on these
values, and based on the Archimedes API, the app should then update the
risk score and the communication of this risk to the individual.
After communicating the risk, the app should provide information
about possible approaches to reducing that risk relevant to that
individual. The Archimedes API will provide a series of possible
interventions associated and associated risk reduction values.
Along with their app submission, entrants must submit a plan for
how they will operationalize and sustain their product, and how many
users they are capable of supporting, throughout the length of a 12-
month promotional campaign associated with this product. The winning
app may have the opportunity to be heavily promoted in a campaign
supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Million
Hearts Initiative, and their partners. As a focal point of this
campaign, Million Hearts will maintain a Web site that will route
consumers to apps that it sponsors. The Web site will be promoted
prominently throughout the campaign. The winning app may have the
opportunity to receive routings from this Web site.
Although apps are not likely to collect personally identifiable
health information, submissions should consider relevant privacy and
security issues, laws, and policies, and ensure apps include
appropriate privacy and security protections where necessary.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual
or entity--
(1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under
the rules promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group,
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office of the National Coordinator
for Health IT.
(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.
An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify the Federal Government
against third party claims for damages arising from or related to
competition activities.
A contingency for entering the contest and submitting an app is
that the winning app must be available for free, to all users, until
December 31, 2013. This includes hosting and maintaining the Web
service in a scalable format, providing technical support with bug
fixes, and so on.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge participants should either:
[ssquf] Access the www.challenge.gov Web site and search for ``The
Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge''.
[ssquf] Access the ONC Investing in Innovation (i2) Challenge Web
site at:
[cir] https://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/challenges/onc-i2-challenges/.
[cir] A registration link for the challenge can be found on the
landing page under the challenge description.
Amount of the Prize
[ssquf] $5,000 each for up to five finalists
[ssquf] $100,000 to the winner
Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes and HHS will comply
with IRS withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected
The ONC review panel will make selections based upon the following
criteria:
1. How well the apps follow the specific input and output
requirements of the two APIs
2. Effectiveness in getting individuals to answer all the questions
for the initial risk assessment
3. Effectiveness in communicating initial risk to individuals,
based on guidelines provided by Archimedes API
4. Effectiveness in encouraging further testing (specifically
lipids and BP), especially for those with some risk
5. Effectiveness in communicating final risk to individuals, based
on guidelines provided by Archimedes API
6. Effectiveness in encouraging lifestyle changes for those at some
risk
7. Effectiveness in encouraging seeing a health professional if
they are at high risk
8. How user-friendly, engaging, and accessible the app is, for the
largest and most demographically-diverse group of people possible.
Which app is the most likely to get the largest number of people to
know their full cardiovascular risk?
9. Submissions will be judged for their operating plans for the
year, and their likelihood of the submitter in successfully maintaining
the app to support the campaign. Has the entrant provided a viable plan
for initial and ongoing technical capacity to meet projected usage as
well as for support, maintenance and enhancement of the application?
10. Demonstration of submitter's current or prior ability to engage
consumers.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
[ssquf] Each entrant retains title and full ownership in and to
their submission.
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Entrants expressly reserve all intellectual property rights not
expressly granted under the challenge agreement.
[ssquf] By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby
irrevocably grants to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, non-
exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display, and use the Submission to the
extent necessary to administer the challenge, and to publically perform
and publically display the Submission, including, without limitation,
for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the challenge.
[ssquf] The winning app must be available for free, to all users,
until December 31, 2013. This includes hosting and maintaining the Web
service in a scalable format, providing technical support with bug
fixes, and so on.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: July 17, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-18593 Filed 7-30-12; 8:45 am]
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