Minnesota’s UnitedHealth Offers $60K For Chronic Care Technologies

Circle Connections: Awards & Accreditations UnitedHealth has launched a new contest with a $60,000 prize that seeks ideas on how technologies can help improve treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and obesity. The "Breakthrough Health Challenge," which UnitedHealth announced , aims to gather unique combinations of common consumer technologies, including smartphones and video games, that can help the insurer improve people's health and quality of life. This was reported by Fierce Health Payer on January 11, 2013. Contact information: Gail Boudreaux, Chief Executive Officer, UnitedHealth Group, P.O. Box 1459, Minneapolis, MN; (800) 328-5979; E-mail . . .