List of hackathons about health in 2017

Think you want to build awesome FinTech solutions? Unbank.Ventures invite you to sign up to participate in the FinTech Week: FinTech & Blockchain Hackathon. You can choose to undertake one of two challenges: 1. Blockchain Challenge: Conceive and prototype a blockchain-based solutions to an unsolved problem in Insurance, GovTech, Energy, Healthcare, IoT, Supply Chain Management, or other industry. 2. FinTech Challenge: Create an innovative solution to a consumer, bank and financial institution problem -- such as consumer savings app, Bitcoin wallet, cross-border money transfer, etc.

Young people and professionals in Singapore! Yayasan MENDAKI and MENDAKI Club invite you to participate in Socialthon 2017. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals on brainstorming innovative solutions to emerging community issues in the areas of: →Enterprise & Start-up Culture, →Technology, Innovation & Jobs, →Society & Health, →Liveability & The Environment, or →The Arts & Culture.

Hackers and healthcare professionals in and around Curitiba, Brazil! Come and showcase your creativity at 48-hour Hacking Health Curitiba -- Hacking Communication in Healthcare! You'll be challenged to create innovative ways to improve the flow of information for problems such as (but not confined to): »How to better achieve information flow for faster and more accurate diagnostics? »How to make electronic systems interoperable? »How to improve patient mandatory forms?

All women and men -- developers, designers, product developers, and entrepreneurs! Are you interested in innovations that promote social change for girls and women? The Girls in Tech, San Francisco chapter and the Hackbright Academy engineering school for women invite you to participate in Hacking for Humanity. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype solutions that address issues including: →Homelessness, →Sexual Assault, →Domestic Violence, →Human Trafficking, and →Women's Health.

Professionals and students in and around Bengaluru who can code! Are you interested in the use of technology for social good? Jain University's JUincubator invites you to participate in the ‘JUincubator Hackathon for Social Good’. You'll be challenged to create an innovative app that can bring positive societal impact, improve citizen engagement, or benefit the social good for rural & urban India.

AI researchers and biologists, genomics researchers! You're invited to participate in the NF2 Tumor Genomics Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with novel ways to analyze genomic data using AI and other computational methods. You'll get the opportunity to contribute to a real, ongoing patient case while helping advance understanding of NF2 mutations, and in the process, help establish an open source community for future medical AI collaborative hacking. You'll get to chose from a number of problem tracks and treatment pathways.

Neuroscience researchers, developers, and innovators in Israel! The Sagol School of Neuroscience and TAU Online invite you to sign up to participate in the Learning and Brain Hackathon. It will be held in Hebrew! This is an opportunity for to learn and use cutting edge brain-science and brain tech tools to address challenges revolving around life-long-learning.

Healthcare techies in and around Berlin! You're invited to participate in HackHPI 2017. Come and collaborate on innovative technology solutions that help and support heath workers. Your challenge will be to delve into the mass of data that our bodies produce and build something awesome -- detect disease, help doctors and nurses, improve health practices.

Developers, designers, coders in the Paris area! Are you interested in using technology to improve hospitals? Come and participate in Lowpital -- a low-tech hackathon. Your challenge will be to create a simple, innovative solution that can incrementally improve the way hospitals operate.

Are you passionate about helping advance gender equality? CHIME FOR CHANGE, Global Citizen, Facebook and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invite you to sign up to participate at ChimeHack 4. Come to this two-day hackathon and help create ways to overcome barriers to equality. You'll collaborate with like-minded hackers, issue experts and non-profit leaders to create tech-driven solutions focused on gender equality.