Health 2.0 Developer Challenge — Move Your App!
Great innovation starts with great problems, and there is no shortage of great problems in healthcare.
One of those problems is couch potatodom.
Earlier this year Jamie Oliver challenged us to help him create a movement to fight obesity. We responded by partnering with HopeLab to challenge mobile software developers: Can you build an Android app that burns calories?
We called the developer challenge “Move Your App!”
In Phase 1, Peter Ma was selected by a panel of judges for “Pickup Sports” among a very competitive field with some great finalists. Peter was invited to TED Oxford where he showed his app.
We then expanded the challenge with Health 2.0 to allow teams of developers who missed the first round to enter their ideas. The winner was just announced this week at Health 2.0.
When Anthony Lai and James Yang got an email about Move Your App from the Stanford Computer Science department, they responded by dropping the class project the were working on, and started building Happy Feet, location-based exercise tracker with built in incentives and social connections.
To download and try out Happy Feet, the Health 2.0 challenge winning app, click here.