'Free Your Mind' Hackathon with Code Nation, EMIS Health and Mind

Free Your Mind Hackathon, with Code Nation and EMIS Health 

Code Nation and EMIS Health are focussed on digital innovation, creating real solutions to real problems. Inspired by EMIS Health’s charity partner Mind we’re launching our ‘Free Your Mind’ Hackathon on Saturday 1st June, and we hope to do just that. 

Here’s what EMIS have to say about this amazing project … 

“We want to be ahead of the game; eager to find, design, test and support ground-breaking ideas in the world of healthcare, ensuring we can enable patients to live longer and healthier lives.

We’re also a caring bunch - we’re aware of our potential impact on the healthcare sector, on each other and within the workplace. As a business we are proud to partner with Mind as our official charity partner, who help us to champion the importance of mental health and wellbeing. 

We’ve created this Hackathon because we want to provide our expert knowledge and insight in healthcare software, to support the need for more digital innovation around mental health and wellbeing”.  

What is the aim? 

This hackathon will give participants the chance to explore the ever-expanding role of AI and chatbots, the potential to monitor Social Media feeds and the ability to utilise the capabilities of SmartHome devices to raise alarms or escalate a potential crisis. 

Our main aim is for our participants to have fun whilst realising that technology has the power to transform the way we treat mental health problems. 

This all-day Hackathon will consist of 3 ‘candidates’ to work on throughout the event, plus a number of amazing workshops with industry leaders and inspirational figures - all will be revealed soon! 

How can I get involved? 

You can either enter a team of six, or sign-up independently and be assigned a team upon arrival. Whilst all those taking part should be technically minded, we encourage each team to be cross-functional – so whether you work in design, product or development you will have an important role to play. This event will also be open to internal participants too from both Code Nation and EMIS Health.

We look forward to seeing you there! And on behalf of Code Nation and EMIS Health - thank you in advance for your support with our project.