Hackathon #1 (part of #dataforbetterhealth initiative)

This hackathon is part of the #dataforbetterhealth initiative of the Federal Minister for Public Health, the Federal Minister for Digital Agenda, and the Federal Secretary of State for Privacy.

During this hackathon participants can explore and analyse an anomyzed version of the administrative database "Documents PH" .This dataset contains information about medication delivery in all Belgian hospitals, since 1994. The dataset is provided by the National Institute for Sickness and Invalidity Benefit (RIZIV/INAMI)). Participants of the hackathon are invited to attend the information session on 10.01.2019 at DigitYser.

The initiators are convinced that invitees can use these hackathons to discover and use the potential of these data for their own objectives. This includes scientific research, but also a more effective development of medicines and medical devices, better patient care, improvement and support of clinical trials, support for personalized care, support for prevention, patient-oriented care, and lower medical costs.

Invitees are primarily, but non-exhaustive: all service providers and knowledge institutes active in the field of health care , health economics, information management, privacy and safety, legislation, both public and private organizations, profit and non-profit (data science communities, open data communities, open knowledge communities, ...) organizations.