[May 22, 2018] |
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Pitney Bowes, RCG Global Services and TAG Announce Healthcare Hackathon Winners
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides
commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing, and
data, in partnership with RCG Global Services, and the Technology
Association of Georgia (TAG), today announced the winners of the 2018
Healthcare Hackathon, a fast-paced 24-hour competition to develop
creative and innovative Healthcare solutions through Pitney Bowes
market-leading datasets. The event, which took place May 18 to May 19,
2018, brought together nearly 100 developers from the Healthcare
industry who submitted 14 new technology solutions.
In a ceremony on Monday, May 21st, the following winners were
selected by a panel of Healthcare executives and industry experts:
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ArcNap, the First Place Healthcare Hackathon winner, created a
solution for diverse populations and their available medical
resources. The solution analyzes and measures Healthcare accessibility
for demographics with varying requirements, and links those
populations to Healthcare providers within their given area.
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Second Place was awarded to IntelliHealth, which created a
mobile application weaving together impactful data points that reduce
costly errors, increase network utilization, and automate error
resolution for Insurance and Healthcare providers.
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Team Pesto received the Third Place award for the development
of a user application that incorporates datasets to analyze conditions
that cause people to seek medical emergency attention, and matches
patients with an appropriate Healthcare provider.
Mark Taylor, SVP Global Software Channels at Pitney Bowes said, "There's
an incredible amount of technical talent in Georgia. By partnering with
TAG and RCG, we saw the Georgia Healthcare Hackathon as a great
opportunity to draw out this talent in a way that can positively impact
the Healthcare community. I'm proud of how each team leveraged Pitney
Bowes data to create solutions that will make a difference."
Teams were provided with access to over 200 datasets, including Pitney
Bowes datasets that offered a comprehensive portfolio of business,
geographic, and industry-specific data. Teams were also encouraged to
use the data visualization tools of their choice.
"The Healthcare industry is in constant evolution. Partnering with
Pitney Bowes to leverage location intelligence and spatial data for
Healthcare was a unique opportuity," says Jim Dwyer, SVP Healthcare at
RCG Global Services. "By offering our data to the Atlanta developer
community, we saw high-value solutions come out of the Healthcare
Hackathon in just two days."
The hackathon sought new and inventive ways to leverage location
intelligence to solve for health plan problems in areas, such as:
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Provider Directory Accuracy
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Network Adequacy
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Holistic Member View
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Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care Access and Location Predictors
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Member Retention
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Fraud, Waste and Abuse
"Hackathons are a great way to support our technology ecosystem and
foster the development of the new products, services and inventions that
will shape the industry's future. Our mission is to fuel the innovation
economy and we were thrilled to participate in this effort spearheaded
by Pitney Bowes," said Larry K. Williams, President and CEO of the
Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).
Data access is easy with the Pitney
Bowes Software & Data Marketplace, where developers can sample
datasets instantly, visualize and layer data on maps, and explore the
entire Pitney Bowes data portfolio across 250 countries and territories.
To learn more about how Pitney Bowes supports the developer communities
around the world, please visit https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/developer.html.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company providing
commerce solutions that power billions of transactions. Clients around
the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on the accuracy
and precision delivered by Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs
in the areas of ecommerce fulfillment, shipping and returns;
cross-border ecommerce; presort services; office mailing and shipping;
location data; and software. For nearly 100 years Pitney Bowes has been
innovating and delivering technologies that remove the complexity of
getting commerce transactions precisely right. For additional
information visit Pitney Bowes, the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.
About RCG Global Services®: RCG has a rich history of providing
professional services to the Global 1000 marketplace for over four
decades and is a global provider of Data & Analytics and Business
Applications (including QA & Software Testing, Application Management &
Maintenance and Agile (News - Alert) Development). RCG serves 250 clients and 25 of the
Fortune 100 across a range of markets, with special focus on Financial
Services, Retail, Healthcare, Entertainment & Hospitality and Energy &
Utilities. RCG is based in Iselin, New Jersey, with offices nationwide,
and an Offshore Delivery Center in the Philippines. RCG was certified as
CMMi5 in 2003 and is certified as both ISO 27001 and PCI (News - Alert) compliant. http://www.rcgglobalservices.com/
About The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
TAG is the leading technology industry association in the state, serving
more than 35,000 members through regional chapters in Metro Atlanta,
Athens, Augusta (News - Alert), Columbus, Macon/Middle Georgia, and Savannah. TAG's
mission is to educate, promote, influence and unite Georgia's technology
community to foster an innovative and connected marketplace that
stimulates and enhances a tech-based economy.
Additionally, the TAG Education Collaborative (TAG's charitable arm)
focuses on helping science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
education initiatives thrive.
For more information visit the TAG website at www.tagonline.org or
TAG's community website at http://www.hubga.com.
To learn about the TAG-Ed Collaborative visit http://www.tagedonline.org/.
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