List of hackathons about health in 2016

Touch Surgery in partnership with BAPRAS British association of plastic reconstructive & anesthetics surgeonsis are organizing this hackathon with the aim to find solutions to problems in the medical field, identified by the leading Surgeons at BAPARS, that be pursued as a viable product or service such as; hardware, software, App, Tools/ instruments, consumables. Attendees will brainstorm, work on ideas and pitch their projects to a panel of judges at the end of the event. The demo day will be open to anyone interested in Healthcare and Tech. Please join us to see what our participants are doing on the leading edge of Health and Technology.

Hey Boston tech community! Want to help find ways to aid in the struggle against Alzheimer's disease? Attend the 2nd annual #EndAlz Hackathon to create software for the benefit of caregivers, researchers, and people living with Alzheimer's disease. If you're a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, dreamer, or just someone with a good idea--come along.

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

Come participate in the IOT & Health Training Hackathon! Participate, learn and build innovative prototypes involving Internet of Things in the health industry. The session involves training for beginners and an interactive session to build prototypes. Cool giveaways will be available and lunch will be provided.

Do you think that technology can help make living conditions better for refugees? Then come along to Spacehack--a 24 hour hackathon that addresses that very question. Join with Europe’s best designers, coders, architects and urban planners to discover how technology can improve living conditions for displaced people around the world. By combining the best in class technology and social activist organizations across Europe the organizers aim to tackle real challenges migrants face in their journey.

This is a two day event bringing empathy, collaboration, and community-driven design to civic hacking. You won’t want to miss this new, people-centered direction for Code for San Francisco, a weekend of translating San Francisco problems into workable, impactful solutions. This year, the focus will lie on users, meaning citizens, residents, and community members, to discover and define their problems and help them. This event is looking for hackers and doers of all kinds. Come for the community, meaningful work, and good times.

ATX Hack for Change is Austin’s response to the National Day of Civic Hacking, a White House initiative to inspire citizens to come together and improve their communities. This event aims to provide the community with resourceful projects that will have a lasting, positive impact. Attendees are welcome from every corner of Austin, any industry, any sector, every neighborhood, all experience levels and ages; this is for anyone who cares about sharing their skills with Austin and their community!

It's time to hack with again! This time, the topic is “EcoCities”. Our urban living environments need to be shaped for tomorrow's challenges. Do you also have the vision to live in a green and CO² free city? Breath clean air, picnic under trees and in parks while sharing, liking and following things online? Would you maybe consume your own produced energy or share it with your neighbor? Which utilities and services e.g. lightning, public services, waste collection … need to become more intelligent and simultaneously speeding up to better Now is the right time to start developing ideas and business models around your vision of tomorrow's EcoCity.

This is a hackathon organized to push the limits of human perception by stretching and expanding them through the use of technology and great ideas. This is the final episode of a series of inspirational events that explore state-of-the-art thinking about perception and sensory experience. Come along to learn more about the project and to hear some seriously mind-expanding ideas, explore the possibility of creating new senses to make perceptible what has hitherto been imperceptible, and hear from some of the pioneers in sensory augmentation, self-cyborgization, and full-body telepresence. There will be free drinks and cookies!

This hackathon is for IT developers, policy makers and stakeholders in the field of water and environment. In short, for anyone wishing to access critical information in the field of water, in order to exploit these in the fields and by the most varied uses. It aims to test the API Hub'Eau to help us improve and to respond to needs. Hub'Eau will offer an innovative service of open-data, through a simplified and functional access to API base, ensuring the best performance for the availability of the data. This hackathon aims to offer data access on fish, water service and sanitation indicators, chemical quality of rivers and piezometry. Other data will be progressively integrated.