Launch Event: Advancing Health Equity in Massachusetts Challenge

Join MeHI on Wednesday, October 30 from Noon – 1:00 p.m. for the virtual launch event for our next Digital Health Sandbox Challenge, designed to support the goals of the Healey-Driscoll administration’s Advancing Health Equity in Massachusetts (AHEM) Initiative.  

At the virtual event, Executive Office of Health and Human Services Undersecretary for Health Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, co-chair, AHEM, will discuss the research that led the Healey-Driscoll administration to launch the AHEM Initiative. Dr. Mahaniah will also share how the state is aligning its work and investments to eliminate racial, economic and regional disparities in health outcomes. Attendees will also hear a panel discussion with past winners of MeHI’s Sandbox Challenges about the benefits of participating in the program. 

This Challenge is seeking tech companies with solutions in four different areas:  

• Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Cardiometabolic Diseases; 
• AI for Health Equity; 
• Maternal and Infant Health; and 
• Medicaid Pilot with Community Care Cooperative (C3), a primary care ACO. 

Challenge finalists will compete for prizes worth a total of $250,000.