Health IT Startup TrialX Wins NCI’s Developer Challenge for Cancer App

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"Ask Dory" uses an intelligent entropy based decision tree algorithm to narrow down the possible matches by leading patients through a step-by-step question answering system.Aligned with the Obama administration’s innovation agenda, i2 is the first federal program to operate under the authority of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act.The challenge was organized by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) of HIT and managed by Health2.0 (see official HHS press release, http://1.usa.gov/AskDory)."Ask Dory" uses an intelligent entropy based decision tree algorithm to narrow down the possible matches by leading patients through a step-by-step question answering system.TrialX’s enterprise solution, iConnect is used by leading academic medical centers in the country including the Cleveland Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and non-profit disease advocacy groups such as the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.About the NCI/ONC ChallengeWith the support of the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, ONC launched the “Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and Control: From Innovation to Impact” challenge this summer in support of ONC’s Investing in Innovation (i2) program.

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