List of hackathons about health in 2016

Open source GIS users, developers, supporters--join OSGeo:UK at FOSS4G UK 2016 for two days of conferences and a one day hackathon - Humanitarian Hack with HXL. Sharpen your design and coding skills to explore ways to improve information sharing during humanitarian crises. Come up with innovative ways to leverage data discovery and spatial data usage, using HXL with QGIS and CKAN, to help people in need!

As a follow-up to the DataMission & UN World Food Programme Hackathon in May 14, all winners and participants are invited to the "What's next event". This is your chance to further develop the solutions of that day and assist the UN World Food Programme! You have four options to collaborate: - Work with the winners on their solutions - Work on creating open source visualizations on the WFP website (D3, Highcharts, Bootstrap, Python expertise desired) - Work on Improving the data quality.

Come attend OSCEdays London 2016 a global hackathon-style event and community to create open resources and possibilities for a global shift towards a waste-free, sustainable and environmentally friendly Circular Economy. This event will be an opportunity to collaboratively imagine a future where London embraces open source and circular economy thinking. People from industry, grassroots, maker & hacker movements, students, etc. will work together on all kinds of challenges discussing, developing and experimenting with the Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE).

Come join in the Circular Towns - Circular Mapping Challenge at Reading Green Festival, which is part of London/ READING OSCEdays. The focus will be around sharing, learning, meeting new people and exploring new places through a circular lens. Participants will have a chance to explore the city and engage in mapping the local activities and related places – putting circular initiatives on the map (literally). The goal is to create an open map of the towns circular related activities and connections that will be of use and can be built upon further by local groups.

Come attend Open Source Circular Economy Day Vancouver -- a global hackathon-style event and community to create open resources and possibilities for a global shift towards a waste-free, sustainable and environmentally friendly Circular Economy. This event will be an opportunity to collaboratively imagine a future where Vancouver embraces open source and circular economy thinking. People from industry, grassroots, maker & hacker movements, students, etc. will work together on all kinds of challenges discussing, developing and experimenting with the Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE).

Participate in a day of creating open guidance and resources for shared community spaces wanting to go more circular or encourage its users to in their work. This year's challenge activity focuses on Circular Maker Spaces and Open Energy Life Cycles. Participants will be developing circular guidance, inspiration, signage and more and exploring what platform is the best for this. Open Energy Monitor will also be on hand to share and develop further resources around embodied energy and LCA to aid hardware design considerations.

Medical Device & Biotech Innovators, Digital Healthcare & IT Healthcare Leaders! Participate at the 2016 Life Sciences Innovation Round-tables - New York. Collaborate in discussions on critical user-centric design and how to bring commercially successful devices to market. Discuss human factors, designing technologies with recent regulatory updates in mind, and commercialization strategies.

HunterHackFest is calling out all Hunter region Hackers, Hipsters and Hustlers to join a dash of MakerFaire spirit, a pinch of StartupWeekend spice and some heat from the crucible of TheEdwards Bar and Innx.Hub workspace to quicken the digital pulse of the Hunter region and its urban spaces. Your creations will be part of the Hunter Innovation Festival!

Interested in innovating for emerging markets? What about the healthcare and financial technology sectors? Come and attend an event organized by the Pears Program for Global Innovation. Come learn how cutting edge technologies--combined with innovative business models--can revolutionize access to healthcare and financial services for consumers in India. The event is designed to help Israeli start-ups succeed in these challenging and rewarding markets.

Metro North Hospital and Health Service employees are invited to "make health technology work better for us" at the inaugural Hackathon 2016. Application developers and healthcare professionals will collaborate with a view to improving the use of technology in local systems across the hospital and health service. Teams will collaborate in one of four areas: using wireless technology to facilitate access and updating of patient records, mobile technology for fast, reliable distribution of test results, digital photography for sharing and consulting on patient wounds, and a unified view of an inpatient’s activity/story during their hospital stay.