ASTP/ONC Challenges and Winners
2026 Challenges
EHIgnite Challenge
The EHIgnite Challenge, sponsored by ASTP/ONC, is seeking solutions that improve the usability of Single Patient Electronic Health Information (EHI) exports. While EHI export functionality is required for Certified Health IT, exports can be inconsistent and difficult for patients and clinicians to use in real-world workflows.
What we’re looking for: Phase 1 submissions (Concept & Design) that address summarization and at least one scenario:
- Interactive patient tools (Q&A over an export)
- Filtering by clinical domains
- Integration across settings
- Streamlined payer workflows
- Participant-defined use case
- Phase 1: Up to 9 winners receive $10,000 each and are invited to Phase 2
- Phase 2: $250,000 / $100,000 / $50,000 (plus bonus recognition for multi-EHR interoperability)
2018 Challenges
Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) Data Challenge
Winners (2018 Announcement):
- First Prize: ResearchAE
- Runner-Up: Shiro Labs
- Runner-Up: Darena Solutions
- Honorable Mention: Tom Nguyen
Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge
Winners (2018 Announcement):
- First Prize: James Madison Advisory Group
- Second Prize: Pegwin
- Third Prize: Jared Schwartz
Secure API Server Showdown Challenge
Phase 1 Winner:
- Asymmetrik
Phase 2 Winner (2018 Announcement):
- 1upHealth
2017 Challenges
Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge
Winners (2017 Announcement):
- Best F-Score (a measure of accuracy that factors in both precision and recall):
- First prize: Vynca
- Second prize: PICSURE
- Third prize: Information Softworks
- Best First Run: Information Softworks
- Best Recall: PICSURE
- Best Precision: Ocuvera
Oh, the Places Data Goes: Health Data Provenance Challenge
Phase 1 Winners:
- Hyper E-Health
- RAIN Live Oak Technology
- 1upHealth
- Emrify
Phase 2 Winners (2018 Announcement):
- 1upHealth
- RAIN Live Oak Technology
Privacy Policy Snapshot Challenge
Winners (2017 announcement):
- First Prize: Jason Cronk and Professor Daniel J. Solove
- Second Prize: 1upHealth
- Third Prize: MadeClear.io
Move Health Data Forward Challenge
Phase 1 Winners (2016 Announcement):
- CedarBridge Group LLC
- EMR Direct
- Foxhall Wythe LLC
- kreateIoT, Technatomy, & Koncero
- Live and Leave Well, LLC
- Lush Group, Inc.
- Resilient Network Systems, Webshield, & SAFE Biopharma
- SpunJohn Consultants, LLC
- Thoughtkeg Application Services Corporation
- TrustedCare & ARM
Phase 2 Winners (Announcement):
- CedarBridge Group LLC
- EMR Direct
- Foxhall Wythe LLC
- Live and Leave Well, LLC
- Lush Group, Inc.
Phase 3 Winners (Announcement and Blog Post):
- Foxhall Wythe LLC
- Live and Leave Well, LLC
2016 Challenges
Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge
Phase 1 Winners (Announcement):
- Green Circle Health
- HealthCentrix
- Medyear
- MetroStar Systems
Phase 2 Winners:
- First Prize: PatientLink Enterprises
- Second Prize and Connector Award: Green Circle Health
- Honorable Mention: 1upHealth
Provider User Experience Challenge
Phase 1 Winners (Announcement):
- Herald Health
- PHRASE Health
- University of Utah Health Care / Intermountain Healthcare / Duke University Health System
- WellSheet
Phase 2 Winners:
- First Prize: Herald Health
- Second Prize and Connector Award: University of Utah Health Care / Intermountain Healthcare / Duke University Health System
- Honorable Mention: PHRASE Health
Blockchain Challenge
Winners (Announcement):
- Blockchain and Health IT: Algorithms, Privacy, and Data
- Blockchain: Securing a New Health Interoperability Experience
- Blockchain Technologies: A White Paper Discussing How Claims Process Can Be Improved
- Blockchain: Opportunities for Health Care
- A Case Study for Blockchain in Health Care: “MedRec” Prototype for Electronic Health Records and Medical Research Data
- The Use of a Blockchain to Foster the Development of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
- Powering the Physician Patient Relationship with “HIE of One” Blockchain Health IT
- Blockchain: The Chain of Trust and Its Potential to Transform Healthcare: Our Point of View
- Moving Toward a Blockchain-based Method for the Secure Storage of Patient Records
- ModelChain: Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Health Care Predictive Modeling Framework on Private Blockchain Networks
- Blockchain for Health Data and Its Potential Use in Health IT and Health Care Related Research
- A Blockchain-based Approach to Health Information Exchange Networks
- Adoption of Blockchain to Enable the Scalability and Adoption of Accountable Care
- A Blockchain Profile for Medicaid Applicants and Recipients
- Blockchain and Alternate Payment Models
C-CDA Rendering Tool Challenge
Winners (Announcement):
- First Prize: Intelsoft C-CDA Viewer
- Second Prize: Patient Insight
2015 Challenges
Market R&D Pilot Challenge
Winners (Announcement):
- ClinicalBox & Lowell General Hospital
- CreateIT Healthcare Solutions & MHP Salud
- Gecko Health Innovations & Boston Children’s Hospital
- Optima Integrated Health & University of California, San Francisco, Cardiology Division
- Vital Care Telehealth Services & Dominican Sisters Family Health Service
EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge
Phase 1 Winners:
- Green Spring Internal Medicine, LLC
- Vibrant Health Family Clinics
Phase 2 Winner:
- Green Spring Internal Medicine, LLC
2014 Challenges
Digital Privacy Notice Challenge
Winners:
- First Prize: PatientPrivilege
- Second Prize: Team Raj
- Third Prize: Team EXIT