Barracuda Bowl 2024 Areas of Interest
This year, we focused on two critical areas: Point of Care and Proactive Health. You can learn more about the 2024 Barracuda Bowl by reading the full 2024 event recap.
Point of Care:
Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep:
Innovations that address challenges in diagnosis, treatment, or care delivery within these critical areas.
Proactive Health:
Novel Prevention, Detection, and Prophylactic Treatment Methods for Disease
- Scalable early detection methods, especially those using low/no-cost sensing technologies.
- Prophylactic approaches to prevent diseases and mitigate harmful outcomes.
- Continuous health monitoring tools that can be deployed at a population level.
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Population-Level Approaches to Increasing the Adoption of Prevention and Wellness Behaviors
- Early indicators of pre-disease states and inexpensive proactive health measures.
- Mental health resilience and mindfulness building methods for large populations.
- Strategies to educate and incentivize individuals toward healthier behaviors.
- Innovative approaches to prolonging healthspan and independence, even without the presence of disease.
System Innovation for Proactive Health Outcomes
- New surrogates and models for predicting long-term health outcomes.
- Valuation models for public health interventions such as vaccination and screening.
- Novel funding and delivery models for preventative care.