List of hackathons about health in 2016

Come and participate at the MD5 hackathon/nyc_/F16. Help tackle some of toughest humanitarian and disaster relief challenges that face cities and modern urban centers. Winning concepts are eligible to receive up to $15K for further development and the creation of real-world demonstrations.

The Digital Health Conference and Mini-Hackathon will: »Examine a range of state of the art digital technology that is currently being used in the NHS. »Consider the challenges of health care provision in the West Cumbria area. »Investigate how solutions might be developed with the help of digital technology.

Interested in solving unmet clinical needs? Then UCLA Business of Science Center's Inventathon is where you need to be! Bring your creativity and technical smarts to create and present the best solution to a given medical need. You can build an app, a device, a website, or anything else that exemplifies the concept. You'll be able to call on clinicians, academics, and technical mentors for assistance in areas such as device design, reimbursement, strategy, software development, and presentation.

A truly unique hackathon to make smarter consumer products that can be reused, or that can reduce waste being thrown into landfills. The Sea Makerthon Malaysia focuses on creating an idea that furthers the circular economy; turning things that were supposed to be one use and done, or that have become obsolete and giving them a second life. Anyone over the age of 16 can join, and their will be supplies with which participants can build, but it is recommended that you bring your own broken or old project pieces as well.

Interested in AI? Come to Meet IBM Watson—the platform for cognitive business // IBM Hackathon Berlin. IBM Watson was designed to analyse, evaluate and interpret enormous amounts of unstructured data within split seconds, based on natural language. Watson approaches human cognitive abilities and has enormous potential for future applications in industry and society. The following challenges await you: »Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: How can children and young people who live far away from a clinic receive care in new ways? »Health District of the future: What is the district of the future? Using real-world data from Hamburg project what the future could look like in health.

Join Startupbootcamp for a weekend full of challenges, hacking and prizes! If you are a developer, designer or just a digital health enthusiast, come and hack away at a health related problem.

Business managers, developers, graphic artists, marketing gurus and other startup enthusiasts! Participate in Telia JUMP - Hackathon 2016 and collaborate on startup ideas around the theme: INNOVATION FOR BETTER LIVING. Come and help realize the vision for: »How better living for families can be achieved in a rapidly evolving online culture, where time for real life relations get shorter and shorter? »How better living can be achieved through the digitalization of the physical world, in the Internet of Things? »How can we fight the hazards and pitfalls of online communities and services for children and elderly? »How can wearable-technologies make a positive difference for people?

Particpatants of the WorldSEP Ideathon will work with mentors over the course of two days to create an application relating to creating sustainable environments, communities, energy, and transportation.

Data scientists, engineers, and developers in and around London! Come participate in the Hacking Global Health Hackathon. Come and collaborate on innovative ways to develop predictive personalized public health models to can help identify the right therapeutic/prevention interventions, in the right dosage, for the right child, at the right time, to get the right response and avoid the adverse outcomes in child- or adulthood.

The PINKconcussions Symposium on Female Concussion/TBI and Hormones is co-hosted by the Veterans Adminstration and Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) with the purpose to present current research and partner industry, academia and adovcates to set an agenda for future research milestones through a hackathon. There will be a civilian and a military keynote.