VizRisk A CHALLENGE TO CHANGE HEALTH

VizRisk A CHALLENGE TO CHANGE HEALTH VizRisk is the first government prize competition that seeks to use visualizations of behavioral health data to inform personal and policy decisions. Visualize. Create. Inform. Win. July 28 - Oct 28, 2014 / Sign up today Play with health data and develop novel visualizations and win $15K in prizes. Envision information for impact. Sign up View Project Suggestions View Datasets (1) Sign up. (2) Check out the datasets and choose at least 2 (e.g. FDA + BRFSS) for your visualization project. 7 sets of data and project suggestions are provided. All participants are welcome to work on their own project, or take advantage of provided suggestions and current health reports. (3) Reach out to mentors for expert advice. We have provided a list of mentors who are excited to help answer your questions on technology, statistics, public health, policy, and medicine. (4) Submit completed projects by 12am, November 14th, 2014 on Challengepost. Win $15,000 in prizes (eligibility and criteria). SCHEDULE HHS Vizrisk is a 3-month long event that begins July 28th at 9am with the release of detailed project suggestions. Final project submissions are due October 28th at 12am on Challengepost. Awards are scheduled to be announced on November 24th. The planned schedule for the event is as follows: July 28th, 9am: Official start of HHS VisRisk Oct 26th, 12am: Last chance to schedule appointments with listed HHS VizRisk mentors Oct 28th, 12am: Deadline for entering project submissions on Challengepost

November 15th: Awards announced via email, winners must submit materials for verification of eligibility November 30th: Final winners announced via email and on this website. SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION All submissions must be entered on Challengepost and must include two parts: 1) Link to a 2-minute YouTube video pitch explaining the context, goal of project, and process of developing the visualization/application. Videos exceeding 2 minutes will only be evaluated for the first 120 seconds. 2) Demo of submission on Challengepost that is accessible via web, powerpoint, or pdf. Submission must also include a 250-word explanation of the project. 3) Winners will be notified by November 24, 2014, and will be required to submit a detailed process report on the development of the demo prior to receiving the cash prize. SUBMIT COMPLETED PROJECT ON CHALLENGEPOST Eligibility and Requirements o At least one member of the team must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident. Teamwork isn't necessary, but is allowed. o Submissions on Challengepost by 11/14/2014 - All projects must be submitted on Challengepost no later than 12am on November 14th. Submissions must consist of two parts: 1) a link/screenshot/pdf of the project itself, 2) a 2-minute video of the team explaining the thought process behind, significance of, and context for the project. o Inclusion of BRFSS Data - must incorporate or include analysis of BRFSS dataset in some way o Method must be reproducible visualizing process/software can be used easily to analyze/display other sets of data o Software must be accessible - judges must be able to view the final product on a website, pdf, or another easily available tool for final evaluation. The tool must be designed for use with existing web, mobile web, electronic health record, or other platform (ios, Android, etc.). o Submissions must be compliant with HHS Section 508 Evaluation Product Regulations. Template for 508 assessment is available here. Evaluation criteria

*Note that Visualization and Application projects will be judged separately. Both projects based on suggested directions and de novo projects will be weighted equally. o 25% Innovation novel combination, integration, and application of data o 25% Design visually appealing, elegant, intuitive interface and visualizations o 25% Relevance to better guide health decisions, relationships are comparable across time, geographies, and populations o 25% Scientific Excellence rigorously measured relationships that adhere to the principles of scientific inquiry. Remember that correlation does not necessitate causation. A panel of experts will judge all submissions and choose 7 winners for each of the various prizes. Final decisions for prizes will be awarded by an HHS official, advised by the panel of judges. PRIZES Prizes are awarded based on the judging criteria. Winners will receive the first 50% of the prize immediately upon verification of the winning project. The second 50% will be granted after implementation partnerships form with the associated government organization. o Awarded to best overall projects based on the four criteria established Grand Prize $6,000 Second Prize - $3,000 Third Prize - $2,000 o Awarded to projects with excellence in one of each of the following areas Relevance Award - $1,000 Design Award - $1,000 Innovation Award - $1,000 Scientific Excellence Award - $1000 DATA & TOOLS Here's data from various federal organizations to help build context around your project (check out the Suggested Projects). All participants are also welcome to work on their own project, in teams or

independently. Analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance System must be incorporated in all projects. BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) **This dataset must be incorporated in all submitted projects.** Sample Population: adults across 50 states (via phone survey) Time frame: 2011-2012 Aggregation levels: geography, age, sex, demographics Measures: behaviors resulting in leading causes of premature mortality and morbidity among adults: cigarette smoking alcohol use physical activity diet hypertension safety belt use Data: will be available July 28th. MEDICARE PROVIDER UTILIZATION AND PAYMENT DATA Sample Population: Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries across 50 states Time frame: 2011-2012 Aggregation levels: cost, geography, age, sex, demographics, procedures, medical services, physicians Measures: utilization and payments for the 100 most common inpatient services, 30 common outpatient services, and physician and other supplier procedures and services performed on 11 or more Medicare beneficiaries OUTPATIENT DATA PHYSICIAN & SUPPLIER DATA INPATIENT DATA Tool: Here's a link to an interactive data tool that helps to organize the data above.

ADVERSE DRUG EVENT REPORTS Sample Population: Americans who reported serious adverse reports on drugs administered to hospital patients or at outpatient infusion centers. Time frame: 2004-2014 Aggregation levels: age, sex, demographics, drugs Measures: drug side effects, product use errors, product quality problems, and therapeutic failures for prescription or over-the-counter medicines and medicines Data: Adverse events are collected through a series of safety reports. Each is identified by a 8-digit string (for instance, 6176304-1). The first 7 digits (before the hyphen) identify the individual report, and the last digit (after the hyphen) is a checksum. Rather than updating individual records in FAERS, subsequent updates are submitted in separate reports. **Adverse event reports submitted to FDA do not undergo extensive validation or verification. Therefore, a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report.** ADVERSE DRUG EVENT API NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY (NHANES) Sample Population: adults and children in the US Time frame: 2004-2014 Aggregation levels: demographic, socioeconomic, geography Measures: health and nutritional status, medical, dental, and physiological measurements, and laboratory tests Data: Coming Soon. THE NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS) Sample Population: Adults and children admitted to Emergency Departments (EDs) Time frame: 2006-2011 Aggregation levels: demographic, socioeconomic, geography, age, cost Measures:

Discharge data for ED visits from over 950 hospitals located in 30 States, approximating a 20-percent stratified sample of U.S. hospital-based EDs Demographic data such as hospital and patient characteristics, geographic area, and the nature of ED visits (e.g., common reasons for ED visits, including injuries) ED charge information for over 85 percent of patients, including individuals covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance, as well as those who are uninsured NEDS DATA NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS) Sample Population: Inpatient adults and children Time frame: 1998-2012 Aggregation levels: demographic, socioeconomic, geography, age, cost, hospital characteristics Measures: clinical and resource-use information that is included in a typical discharge abstract, including: Primary and secondary diagnoses and procedures Expected payment source, Total charges Discharge status, Length of stay NIS DATA (SAS) YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (YRBSS) Sample Population: School-age youth Time frame: 1991-2013 Aggregation levels: demographic, socioeconomic, geography, age Measures: behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence Sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection Alcohol and other drug use Tobacco use

Unhealthy dietary behaviors Inadequate physical activity 1991-2013 YRBSS DATA U.S. CENSUS BUREAU Sample Population: communities across the US Time frame: 2010 Aggregation levels: demographic, socioeconomic, geography, age, families Measures: information about entire populations of communities, including cross-tabulations of age, sex, households, families, relationship to householder, housing units, detailed race and Hispanic or Latino origin groups, and group quarters 2010 US CENSUS DATA Tool: The Quickfacts Visualization Tool provides fast, easy access to facts about people, communities, business, and geography on Census Data. ENVIROFACTS Sample Population: communities across the US Time frame: 2000-2014 Aggregation levels: geography Measures: environmental data on air, waste, facility, land, toxics, compliance, water, radiation, and more for regions across the U.S. There are several choices for downloading data. Users may customize datasets by content and build their own search to download the results to a.csv file. The Geospatial Download feature enables a user to download spatial data files for use in mapping and reporting applications. ENVIROFACTS DATA DOWNLOADER Tool: The Eco-Health Relationship Browser illustrates scientific evidence for linkages between human health and ecosystems. This interactive tool provides information about several of our nation's major ecosystems, the services they provide, and how those services, or their degradation and loss, may affect people.

PROJECT SUGGESTIONS Here are some ideas for potentially meaningful projects and examples of what we are ultimately looking for. Remember, the goal is to create interactive, web-based visualization tools that better inform personal and policy health decisions. The final outputs of the visualizaton tools can be static (i.e. meant for policy briefings/reports) or dynamic (i.e. web-based tools that help users better understand the data). DATA COMPILER Develop a tool that allows for inputs of various datasets, organizes the PERSONAL HEALTH RISK IDENTIFIER Develop an application/web-based tool that visualizes individual health risks by integrating personal data into pre-aggregated government data. The user inputs medical history / personal health metrics and the app returns cleanly visualized information about correlations of their behavior to population trends. The visualized information returned could be any or all of the following: your probability of certain health outcomes (diabetes, stroke, heart attack) the degree to which each parameter affects the probability of each outcome where you fall statistically compared to o the US population, your state s population, your community s population (where available) o others having the same age/race/gender/income/education VISUALIZING POPULATION HEALTH RISKS Summarize relationships between various areas of data in compelling and meaningful ways i.e. generate dynamic representations similar to the annual surveillance summaries CDC has published (example), though much more concise and aimed at the public. Conceivably, such reports should also be able to be auto-generated JIT based on some number of input parameters, so that the user could create a new report on an issue and population of interest to them. SOCIAL COST OF BEHAVIOR Compare relative treatment costs of health outcomes (e.g. lung cancer) from certain behaviors (e.g. smoking) in geographic regions with similar behavioral risk factor profiles. SAMPLE OUTPUTS We think these visualizations look pretty cool. US Health Care Spending 1960-2012: Who Pays?

Scientific evidence for popular health supplements MENTOR GUIDELINES If you need help with any part of your project, feel free to reach out to any of the mentors listed below using the following procedure: 1. Reserve a help session under the "Schedule an Appointment" section below. Each mentor can offer 5 help sessions/week (1 help session = 1 email or virtual meeting). 2. Email your mentor with "[VizRisk] Questions about " or "[VizRisk] Request for virtual meeting" in the subject line and include your name, project goal, and questions in the body of the email. *Reaching out to mentors is not required for participation, although we encourage you to take advantage of the expertise of the individuals listed below. MENTOR CONTACT INFORMATION COMING SOON is a list of subject-matter experts who have volunteered to help you develop your project. SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT If you would like to reach out to a mentor, check his/her availability through Doodle below to reserve a help session, and then send an email to the mentor with "[VizRisk] Questions about " or "[VizRisk] Request for Virtual Meeting" in the subject line, and the reserved help session time in the body of the email along with your name, project goal, and any questions. RESOURCES Here is a list of helpful websites that may guide you in developing your project. Links here do not constitute an endorsement of a specific end-product. HHS is not responsible for the content of these links. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Data Visualizations The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. This link shows some ideas for visualizing health data. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation RWJF is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted solely to the public's health, focusing on efforts to foster healthy environments, to improve how health care in America is delivered and paid for, and to evaluate how well it does for patients and their families. The Reinvestment Fund PolicyMap

PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis. Here are links to their data directory and map visualizations of overlaying datasets. Datavisualization.ch Datavisualization.ch is a knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics. Their mission is to provide the latest research findings and most topical use cases in this field. Idea's "Great Tools for Data Visualization" A helpful article compiling a list of apps/web-based programs that highlight a variety of dynamic data visualization examples. CONTACT DIRECTORS@HHSVIZRISK.ORG WITH ANY QUESTIONS.