List of hackathons about health in 2017

Developers, designers, researchers, insurers, innovators, healthcare professionals, patients! Amgen invites you to sign up to participate in Hacking Healthcare. Your challenge will be to collaborate to design and prototype innovative solutions that will help patients and accelerate healthcare. You'll be able to choose from the following themes: »Patient empowerment »Use of augmented reality to improve patient care »Using eHealth to eliminate the distance between medical professionals and patients.

Robotics enthusiasts and hackers in Rwanda! You're invited to sign up to participate in the GLOBHE Drone Hackathon Series - #1. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype solutions that can help develop sustainable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery systems that can bring emergency medical supplies and diagnostics systems to patients in remote and inaccessible areas. The first hackathon will focus on solutions for "last mile delivery."

Students, professionals in Marin County! If you're interested in the use of technology to help solve health care issues in the county, then the County of Marin invites you to sign up to participate in Hack4Health: Design, Code, Build. Even though Marin County ranks as one of the healthiest in the state, some of your fellow residents are not so lucky! You'll be tasked with helping identify health challenges in the community, coming up with creative technology solutions and then designing, coding and building them.

Founders, engineers, scientists, business hackers, or students! OneTraction invites you to sign up to participate in the Artificial Intelligence - Global Hackathon. The focus of this innovation event is artificial intelligence. Sign up as a team, or join one at the event.

AquaHacking is a five-month long hack-a-thon that catalyzes stakeholders who want to protect our freshwater – citizens, decision makers, practitioners, researchers, NGOs – to take action. AquaHacking challenges young digital designers and coders, aspiring water experts and entrepreneurs to develop applications that raise awareness about water issues, and that solve water problems. There is $75,000 in prize money available, in addition to access to local accelerators and mentors for winning teams. The Challenge: Water experts, hackers, engineers, and other creative minds work together as a team for 10 weeks to develop functional, marketable innovations to help solve Lake Erie’s water issues. The competition runs from April - September, with semi-finals in June and the finals in September. Anyone 18 or older is welcome. We are looking for creative minds, whatever their field of expertise, but especially students, water researchers, developers, digital designers, programmers, engineers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and people who want to save the world! The Issues Teams Have to Tackle This Year: Spreading #LakeErieLove All eyes on Erie Stopping the invaders to keep our fisheries fishable Stemming the plastic tide Taking on the algae monster Join us on March 29 at the University of Waterloo for an information session on how you can be a part of this innovative movement!

Healthcare stakeholders -- patients, carers, ambulance service pros, clinical commissioning group members, etc. You're invited to sign up to participate in the 'Quality' Hackathon @ Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust. You'll be challenged to collaborate to come up with new and innovative ways to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges.

Health professionals, patients, developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you motivated to change the world of health! Come participate in the Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon. This hackathon is intended to help bring IT and healthcare professionals together to conceive & design an app, a device, or other solution for patient-centric care. Join a multidisciplinary team and create a prototype of a mobile or web-based application or a hand-held device that could make a dramatic difference in patient care!

Hackers in and around Berlin! Interested in anonymized data and how it can be used in healthcare? Clue and WATTx invite you to participate in their first data hackathon. You'll be challenged to help make sense of one of the largest sets of anonymized personal healthcare data. You'll use data that has been anonymised using WATTx's proprietary platform. Meet with leading data scientists and compete for prizes.

High school student hackers in and around Santa Monica! The Crossroads School for Art & Science and The Archer School for Girls invite you to participate in a Hackathon for Teen Health. You'll be challenged to collaborate with experts and students from all disciplines and skill levels to identify problems that affect teens and then work together to develop prototypes to solve those problems.

Fintech and IoT hackers in Ethiopia! You're invited to sign up for the Gebeya Ethiopia Hackathon series (Internet of Things and Crypto-currency). IT professionals, practitioners, enthusiasts, and professionals from all disciplines are welcome to participate inEthioHacks to help solve Ethiopia's pressing challenges in agriculture, health and education sectors by leveraging leading-edge Internet of Things (IoT) and Cryptocurrency technologies. Network with like-minded professionals and industry leaders and compete for prizes!