Health Datapalooza IV: June 3rd-4th, 2013 Action Beats and Announcements Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Challenge Winners PCORI challenged teams to develop a proposal or prototype for a patient/researcher ‘matching’ mechanism or system that can effectively connect potential partners interested in seeking funding for rigorous patient-centered outcomes research. Two winners will be announced. Presenter: Anne Beal, Chief Operating Officer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

1. PCORI Patient-Researcher
Matching Challenge
Anne C. Beal, MD, MPH
Deputy Executive Director, Chief Officer for Engagement
Health Datapalooza IV, June 3, 2013

2. About PCORI
Independent organization authorized by Congress to fund
comparative effectiveness research that helps patients and
clinicians make better-informed healthcare decisions.
Requires meaningful engagement by patients and other
healthcare stakeholders in all phases of research.
Multiple approaches to help patients and researchers find
each other to collaborate in this work.
Always seeking new ways to encourage such connections.

3. The PCORI Challenge
Patient/researcher “matching”
mechanism or system.
Connect potential partners
interested in seeking funding for
patient-centered CER.
Concept or Prototype.
Managed by Health 2.0.

4. The Winners!
Concept ($10,000)
“Act Together and Connect for Patient-
Centered Outcomes Research
(ACTONNECT)”
Christopher C. Yang, PhD, Drexel University

5. The Winners!
Prototype ($40,000)
“WellSpringboard: A Prototype for
Patient-Researcher Matching”
Matthew M. Davis, MD, MAPP, University of Michigan

6. What’s Next
We hope the recognition our Challenge provides
will encourage these teams to further develop their
entries into robust matching systems.
We’ll follow their progress – and that of others this
Challenge might have inspired – with great interest.
We’ll further review the winners (and honorable
mentions) to see if any might be candidates for
more support through our standard channels.

7. www.pcori.org/challenge