San Diego County, along with three other communities around the nation, will host a mobile app development challenge as part of an effort led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

The Million Hearts Risk Challenge invites developers to create a mobile app that will help people take a heart health risk assessment, find places to check their blood pressure and cholesterol and use the results to improve their heart health. The app is part of a public-private effort led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that aims to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes through clinical and community prevention.

Not only does the app challenge demonstrate one way that individual developers can be a part of government 2.0, but it also demonstrates how local governments can work with federal resources to develop programs and applications that can be used throughout the country.

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