The Veterans Mental Health Innovation Project Accelerator seeks to cultivate and scale a portfolio of innovation projects that are designed to improve timely clinical access and enhance Veterans’ experience across the Network of Operational Stress Injury Clinics located across Canada.
We seek to build an advanced predictive analytic solution to improve efficiency of service delivery through data driven decision making. The objective is to:
1) forecast demand for mental health services; 2) calculate capacity for treatment and assessment activities; and 3) relate demand and supply to wait times and treatment outcome.
Areas of Interest
We encourage applications from academic, public sector, and private sector participants to provide components for a first phase implementation, including:
1) A Predictive Analytics Calculation Engine to accurately predict future values of health system metrics; and
2) A Mental Health Supply and Demand Algorithm relating relevant mental health services, activities, outcomes, resources, and wait times.
Why This Challenge Matters
Veterans Affairs Canada is a learning organization committed to continuously improving services for Canadian Veterans. This Challenge aims to demonstrate how advanced novel predictive analytics technologies can contribute to better data-driven decision making, and ultimately enhance efficiencies, care and effectiveness of services available to Veterans across Canada.
The challenge can also contribute to the development of open knowledge about mental health system optimization that will benefit all Canadians.
We believe that good ideas can come from anywhere.
Challenge Launch: 15th September 2020
Stage 1: Challenge brief:
Submissions of challenge briefs for this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM EST on 30th September 2020. Late submissions will not be considered.
Stage 2: Proof of concept:
Proof of concept submissions from shortlisted participants must be presented in the week of 18th October 2020.
Veterans Mental Health Innovation Project Accelerator
The Veterans Mental Health Innovation Project Accelerator aims to cultivate and scale a portfolio of innovation projects that will improve timely clinical access and enhance Veterans’ experience across the Network of Operational Stress Injury Clinics located across Canada.
Colleaga
Colleaga is an orchestrated network of collaborative mission-based innovation programs. Colleaga brings together public, academic and industrial social innovation to generate economic opportunities from collaboratively solving wicked social problems.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Veterans Affairs Canada is an organization committed to continuously improving services for Canadian Veterans. Veterans Affairs Canada funds the Network of Operational Stress Injury Clinics (NOSIC), a network of mental health clinics located across Canada that specialize in treating Canadian Veterans, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families impacted by an operational stress injury. Clinics serve about 9500 clients a year, offering evidence informed comprehensive assessments for individual and group treatments, and couple and family interventions to address anxiety, insomnia, anger, and other issues that occur as a result of operational stress injuries sustained during service.
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