List of hackathons about health in 2016

Participate in the inaugural Blockchain Conference for the Healthcare Industry! The Healthcare industry is ripe for optimization. Information about an individual's health ranks among the most privileged data in existence, yet major data breaches continue to occur at an alarming pace. Distributed: Health is a forum where healthcare leaders blockchain innovators from around the world are coming together for the first time to reimagine how electronic medical records, pharmaceutical inventory management, medical payments, connected devices, real-time analytics, insurance claim processing, systems interoperability, personalized health and more can be streamlined with this revolutionary technology. The conference will feature a 24-hour hackathon prior to the conference itself. Participants will have 24 hours to build and then demo an original blockchain-powered application in competition for more than $20,000 in cash prizes.

HUBweek, the Museum of Science, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hacking Pediatrics, and Microsoft invite you to participate in reimagining the future of health at Building the Hospital of the Future: A Kids Only Minecraft Hackathon. Using the beloved game of Minecraft, participants and patients from Boston Children’s Hospital will work together to build the hospital of the future in worlds created especially for this event. Some of the designs will be incorporated into a 3D printed model of the hospital of the future and displayed in Boston.

Developers, students and aspiring entrepreneurs! Sign up for the Distributed: Health Hackathon. You will have 24 hours to showcase your skills and vision using the APIs, SDKs and other tools from today’s leading innovators in healthcare. The challenge is to build the tech that will power the healthcare infrastructure of the future.

Come and participate in reimagining the future of health at Building the Hospital of the Future: A Kids Only Minecraft Hackathon. Using the Minecraft game, participants and patients from Boston Children’s Hospital will work together to build the hospital of the future in worlds created especially for this event. Some of the designs will be incorporated into a 3D printed model of the hospital of the future and displayed in Boston.

HUBweek, the Museum of Science, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hacking Pediatrics, and Microsoft invite you to participate in reimagining the future of health at Building the Hospital of the Future: A Kids Only Minecraft Hackathon. Using the beloved game of Minecraft, participants and patients from Boston Children’s Hospital will work together to build the hospital of the future in worlds created especially for this event. Some of the designs will be incorporated into a 3D printed model of the hospital of the future and displayed in Boston.

Marketers, designers and developers! Come to the Brescia Smart City Hackathon and create solutions for the smart city! Come up with ideas that can improve processes and provide new solutions for the smart city, in areas such as the economy, mobility, the environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance. Create a solution that uses a programmable multi-function hardware device able to collect independently a series of data (temperature, position, orientation, movement), to be connected to other devices and to transmit by radio the information gathered distance.

Do you have strong technology skills (programming and design) and an interest in making a difference in the not-for-profit community? Come collaborate with peacebuilding practitioners and NGOs at #peacehackLDN 2016 and create technology solutions that could be helpful in peacebuilding.

Doctors, designers, developers, researchers, students, health professionals, patients... Come to the Hacking Health hackathon and help rethink the world of health and care. Collaborate to build innovative apps and projects to address one of the following areas: »Rethinking Care »Rethinking patients »Rethinking systems

Healthcare developers, professionals and entrepreneurs! Participate in the Hack4Health Hackathon and help address major challenges for the health system in Brazil. This year sponsors GE Healthcare and Optum will present you with two Big Data & Healthcare Analytics challenges. You must come up with creative solutions for integrating data and extracting intelligence that can help improve overall Public Health. You may choose from the following challenges: »GE Challenge: In mining structured and unstructured healthcare data, how do you interpret signs and symptoms and turn them into well-founded budgets and projects that promote overall public health? »Optum Challenge: How best can you combine disparate patient medical histories and databases that exist in Brazil to help improve the quality of patient care?

Ready for the biggest Open Innovation Challenge 2016? The Coopérathon is a new type of hackathon, lasting 6 weeks to allow participants to focus on quality solutions. Participants may choose from two tracks: Fintech or Health Large Fintech themes addressed in 2016 are: »Payments Management »Instant gift »Inclusive Financial Services The major themes addressed Health in 2016 are: »Health and Wellness at Work »Seniors' Mental Health »Optimize care and life trajectory of chronically ill patients »Art - therapy »Adherence and therapeutic adherence »Improve health access for all