Health hackathons are events where engineers, doctors, designers, and business people come together to solve real healthcare challenges. Learn about what health hackathons are, why they are important, and how to get involved.
Talk given by Lina A. Colucci (linacolucci.com) at Duke University on 13 February 2015. Recording of talk can be found at http://www.linacolucci.com/2015/02/hacking-medicine-duke-lecture/
17. MIT Firetruck Hack
2006
Photo by Christina Xu, “IMG72,” flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0)
"MIT firetruck hack 2006". Licensed under Public
Domain via Wikipedia (Sarahjane10784).
25. Open yourselves to crazy ideas
Seek diverse teams
Reach out for help
Fail fast and change (iterate and pivot)
Focus your problem
Build something!
Hack Do’s
26. Hack Do Not’s
Worry about patenting
Discuss ownership
Develop too broad of a solution
Be negative
Monopolize the conversation
Only talk… take action. Try things out!
27. The Nitty Gritty of a Hackathon
Saturday
8:00am Registration opens
9:00-9:30am Opening remarks
9:30-9:50am Hackathon 101 (Rules/Format/Judging Criteria)
9:50-10:30am Problem pitching session
10:30-11:00am Mingling and team formation
11:00-11:40am Solution pitching session
11:45am - end of day Hacking + working lunch
Sunday
9:00-1:00pm Hacking
1:00-3:00pm Final presentations + judging
3:00-3:30pm Speaker during judging deliberations
3:30-4:15pm Announcement of winners and closing remarks
37. MIT $100K Competition
Rock Health
$4 Million
In mid. of FDA approval
Doctor + Engineers + Business
Engineers + Business
Doctor + Paramedic + DeveloperDoctor + Business + Software Engineer
Health Box
Pilot with athenahealth
Customers
Blueprint Health
Pilot with South Shore Hospital
2 Hackathons
Techstars Boston
Customer
Communication between ambulances and emergency rooms
Improve medical practice scheduling by predicting no-shows
Improve clinical information management
38. Health hackathons are having a real impact on the world
~10 companies in 3 years
$18 million in funding
TechStars, RockHealth, Y-Combinator, etc.
Real customers, pilots, and clinical trials
41. Everywhere.
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Health Hackathon
43. Map of RTP
The Triangle
http://stevehallarchitecture.com/blog/the-triangle/
44. Hack in a Box
Ultimate guide to
organizing a health
hackathon
End of February
(online)
Grand Hack
One of largest health
hackathons in the world!
April 24-26
MIT Media Lab
Boston, MA
North Carolina
Hackathon
September
1st health
hackathon in the
state!
46. Learn more about health hackathons at hackingmedicine.mit.edu
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innovation & entrepreneurship opportunities hackingmedicine.mit.edu/contact/
See more of Lina A. Colucci’s work at linacolucci.com
Where to Learn More
facebook.com/MITHackingMedicine
@MITHackMed