List of hackathons about health in 2017

Data scientists, designers, urban planners, and software developers in and around Seattle! The City of Seattle's Civic Technology Program invites you to participate in A City for All. Coinciding with the National Day of Civic Hacking, this Hackathon event focuses on what Seattle looks like in 20, 40, or 60 years from now. You'll be challenged to conceive age-friendly civic apps, data visualizations, design proposals, and more, that will help the city contribute to its citizens' health, longevity, and lifestyles.

Members of the San Francisco Tableau User Group! You're invited to participate in the #SFBATUG Hackathon for Good! You'll be challenged to use your data skills to come up with innovative ways to visualize water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions to children living in urban poverty in Asia and Africa. One week before the event, you'll have access to data provided by Splash.org. Your solution will help bring a world closer where all children have clean water, clean hands and clean toilets, no matter where they are born.

User Group's meeting and hackathon at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative uses of Tableau to create data visualizations that can help drive awareness of hunger in communities across the country. Your data visualization might be selected to be displayed in local supermarkets, banks, or company lobbies to display how hunger is a hidden problem -- even affluent neighborhoods.

If you're in the Seattle area and are interested in learning about solutions that improve the human condition, then IxDA Seattle & OpenSeattle invite you to attend the Social Good Series Hackathon Presentations. You can hear the presentations of teams that participated in the Social Good Hackathon. Their projects promise solutions that address social challenges such as civic innovation, environmental issues, homelessness, transportation, criminal justice, immigrant and refugee resources, community engagement, and housing.

If you're in the Seattle area and are interested in finding solutions that improve the human condition, then IxDA Seattle & OpenSeattle invite you to sign up for the Social Good Hackathon. You can join a project in progress and collaborate with like minded individuals on issues such as civic innovation, environmental issues, homelessness, transportation, criminal justice, immigrant and refugee resources, community engagement, and housing.

Start-ups, developers, designers, and others in the residential health and safety sector! You're invited to participate in the RESI Hackathon 2017. This eight-hour hack will be held in conjunction with the UK's premier residential property market conference. Collaborate with a team and compete for cash prizes. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution that can save lives.

Passionate about defending women’s access to healthcare? Want to learn about the Abortion Access Hackathon -- what is it, when it's being held, what is achieved by this type of collaboration? You're invited to Abortion Access Under the Trump Administration -- an evening of discussions with co-founders and participants of the Abortion Access Hackathon. You'll learn how the Hackathon promotes and enables the use of state--of-the-art technologies to improve women's access to reproductive and abortion healthcare nationwide.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and industry insiders! Participate in Unearthed, a 54-hour open innovation Hackathon that is focused on the resources sector. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop prototype technology solutions to resource challenges. You'll have the unique opportunity to work on real industry data as well as data from government partners.

Elsevier Hacks ‘17 is happening! The 48-hour hackathon will take place in Helsinki, Finland over the weekend of August 25th - 27th. Elsevier has tasked participants with identifying today’s challenges in medical education, and developing innovative mobile or web solutions to solve them. First place winners will receive $6000 in cash + $250 in tech. Second place winners will receive $500 in tech. Awesome goodies and spot prizes guarantees everyone will go home with some of 2017’s coolest gadgets! Medical students from around the globe, currently enrolled in University, are invited to register to participate. Students, whose applications are selected by Elsevier, will be offered travel and accommodation provisions for the trip. Finnish developers and designers are also invited to register. Each team will need their coding and design expertise to build great prototypes.

Healthcare techies and professionals in and around Sydney! The Centre for Independent Studies and No Moss invite you to participate in the Health Hackathon Weekend: Save Time, Save Lives. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative app that solves a healthcare problem such as extended waiting times during the peak periods at hospital emergency departments. That's just one idea! What's yours?