A Brown University School of Professional Studies graduate student has been named a finalist in a Harvard-sponsored competition to promote ideas that improve health care. Chris Godfrey of Dallas-based Bloodbuy will share a $150,000 award from the Health Acceleration Challenge with three other finalists. For developing a way to overcome the geographic unevenness of the nation’s blood supply, Chris Godfrey, a graduate student in Brown University’s Masters in Healthcare Leadership program has won a share of $150,000 in a Harvard-sponsored healthcare innovation competition.
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As the US healthcare system stumbles toward a new consensus built around the "triple aim" of increased access, improved quality, and lower cost, the push is on for new ideas that can test the boundaries of current practice. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates a range of incentives to promote this goal, which has added to the momentum around novel reform approaches.
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