Agfa HealthCare - eHealth Innovation Competition
New Announcements Last Year's Recap Competition Rules Event Schedule PrizesThe Agfa HealthCare eHealth Innovation Competition is an exciting month long competition designed to engage the most talented and brightest minds from various disciplines in Information Technology, Health Sciences, and Engineering faculties, among others, across Ontario. This competition is a unique way to allow students to engage in real-life scenarios to provide the most feasible solution. With the support of mentoring from Agfa HealthCare and industry professionals, student will be given access to wide variety of resources to help excel in preparing their proposal and presentation
New Announcements
November 6, 2009
After careful review and consideration, we have selected the top 5 final teams. It was a tough decision and we thank you all for participating. Good luck next year every one!
Finalists:
- Team M & M Proposition II - Mei Chen & Meng Weng (University of Waterloo)
- Team InnoVision Consulting - Che-Ye (Jenny) Wang & Maria Ahmed (Queen's University)
- Team Queen's University - Ben Richards & Kayleigh Robers (Queen's University)
- Team Bengal Prodigies - Mohammad Towhidul & Mursalin Akon (University of Waterloo)
- Team Lillex - Alexander Rice-Khouri & Lily Szeto (University of Toronto)
Congratulations to all Finalists. See you all in Waterloo!
October 26, 2009
There is One Week before the proposals are due! Good luck to all contestants. If you have not registered, act quick!
October 21, 2009
**The proposal guideline has been updated to "Proposal Guideline v2.0". Please download it under "Case Resources", or click here
Judging criteria for the proposal can also be found from the Judging Table. Please download it under "Case Resources", or click here
October 20, 2009
** Revised Rule: The length of the proposal can be 1 page or 2 pages.
October 20, 2009
Both case videos (Competition Introduction, Competition Question) are posted under "Case Resources", or click here to access the videos.
October 19, 2009
Case videos are available under "Case Resources".
Last Year's Recap
Last year's competition ran from October 30, 2008 to November 18, 2008 and was open to students at the University of Waterloo and Conestoga College. The kick-off event attracted close to 130 students from different faculties such as Engineering, Science and Business. Over 30 initial proposals were submitted. Upon review, top 10 teams were selected to the finals and had the unique opportunity of presenting their innovative ideas to a panel of judges consisted of Agfa HealthCare and healthcare professionals. The winning team won a 4-day all-expense-paid trip to Belgium and pitched their idea to the Agfa HealthCare CTO!
Competition Rules
Event Schedule
Kick-off - October 19, 2009Case Resources and supporting information will be readily available online.
Join us on Monday, October 19, 2009 at one of the campus kick-offs
Queen's University
Goodes Hall, Room 348
7:00pm - 8:00pm
University of Waterloo
EIT, 2nd Floor Foyer
4:00pm - 7:00pm
(Please note that the time has been extended from 4-5pm, to 4-7pm.
Come drop by to learn more about the competition.)
Proposal Submission - November 2, 2009
Proposals will be due by 8:00 am on Nov 2nd. Results will be posted within the week.
Mentoring Session - November 13, 2009
Mentoring session will consist of representatives from Agfa HealthCare, sponsoring institutions and local companies.
Finalist Presentation - November 14, 2009
Finalists will present to a panel of judges and winners will be notified at the end of the competition.
Prizes
1st PlaceEach member of the winning team will win an all expense paid trip to Europe to present their eHealth Innovation case study to Agfa HealthCare Executives (approximate value of $2,000 per team member). Dates of travel are before December 1, 2009.
2nd Place
Each member of the team will win one Netbook.
3rd Place
Each member of the team will win an iPod Touch.
For more Questions & Inquiries, please contact Monika Dujmovic @
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