List of hackathons about health in 2016

Come and help end hunger in your community! Collaborate with Chicago's leading technologists for the all-day Hackathon to End Hunter addressing hunger in Cook County.

AI and Big Data techies in Malaysia! Come and participate in the AI Robot & Data Hackathon. Collaborate to show how you can apply artificial intelligence and data science to tackle real business problems. Choose one of the following tracks: »Ideation: Using Artificial Intelligence, Pepper, advance one of the five industries in Malaysia—Fin-tech, Edu-tech, HealthCare, Auto, or Real Estate. »Development: Develop an app for Pepper using Pepper development software, Chronograph or Python, C++ and Java. »Data solution: Solve a real business issue using actual datasets from two of Malaysia's startups.

Interested in solutions to address homelessness? Come participate in the Hack Homelessness Hackathon. You'll be immersed in the problems facing the homeless in the Bay Area and inspired to come up with creative solutions to those problems. If you're up to hack for a great cause register for the Hack Homelessness Hackathon!

Passionate about the health of the people of America? Want to help address issues such as lack of good nutrition, limited access to pre-natal care and childhood poverty? Come and participate in Hacks for Health. Collaborate and apply your software skills to create solutions to a particular issue in health and nutrition. The Hacks for Health topics this year are Poverty and Hunger, Food Deserts, and Maternal/Infant Health.

Attention volunteers who love building crazy technology! If you're a developer, designer or data scientist, come help charities with their digital challenges at the Brighton Digital Festival! You'll be assigned a business case for a problem that a participating charity needs to solve: →re-designing their website or smartphone application, →building a proof of concept on using chat bots, augmented reality, and virtual reality or →helping them with data needs. The day will be focused on designing, developing, breaking the digital rulebook and helping move towards a more sustainable world through helping charities accelerate into the world of digital.

The Valley Economic Alliance is hosting Valley Hackathon II, as part of its mission to elevate the economic vitality and stability of the five-city region (Calabasas, Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles and San Fernando). This event's for you if you're a high school (9-12th grade) or college student interested in: →Technology →Website Development/Design →Application Development/Design →Political Science →Government →Public Policy →Social Impact →Marketing

Sign up to attend CityCampNC—the annual event that brings citizens, government, and businesses together to openly innovate and improve quality of life through technology. Participate in the Hackathon & NC Datapalooza hackathon and build day. Code for America brigades from all of North Carolina will hack to advance their projects. And since NC Data Jam is co-located with this year’s hackathon and build day, CityCampers will also be able to participate in the NC Datapalooza competition kickoff.

Do you think technology can help democracy? Do you have any practical ideas? Come join the Open Democracy Now! hackathon #4. This fourth running of this civic-tech hackathon allows existing projects to continue their development, but is also an opportunity to create new civic-tech projects. Particular emphasis will be placed on how digital technology can help increase citizen inclusion -- especially of young people -- in city neighborhoods.

Are you passionate about ending violence? Next to killing thousands of innocent people, acts of violence have given rise to even more unrest and exclusion across societies. There is a time to reflect and mourn for the victims of these attacks and there is a time to act!  Come and apply your skills to create practical ideas on how to prevent violence and encourage interaction among social groups? This event is open to the whole SF tech community. Seriously, you don't have to be an expert to join this hackathon.

Interested in improving the patient experience from bench to bedside? The BioPharma Ambition health hackathon is for industry experts, scientists, engineers, coders, patients, health care providers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and marketers who are ready for an intensive challenging weekend of creating innovative solutions that improve aspects of patient pathways and clinical care. Your goals are: --> Better Outcomes for Patients. --> Better drug logistics & waste management. --> More effective health practitioner - patient interaction. --> A better patient experience.