List of hackathons about health in 2017

Virtual reality hackers, designers, coders, as well as chemists, lab techs. Are you passionate about the use of virtual and augmented reality in the biopharma space? You're invited to participate in Hack EMD: Creating the Future of Enterprise AR & VR. You'll be challenged to come up with your own innovative idea for how AR/VR can be applied to one of the following business challenges: »Create AR tool to enable hands-free laboratories and collaboration. »Develop a solution for AR/VR collaboration in an R&D setting. »Create AR/VR customer support system for remote troubleshooting of physical lab equipment. »Improve Unity environment of a life sciences laboratory to make better VR training experience.

South African student hackers or recent graduates aged 18 or older! You're invited to sign up for the Hacks4Africa hackathon. You'll be challenged to design, code and demonstrate an innovative app that helps South Africa and its citizens tackle issues such as food access, food security, and agricultural business.

Attention all software engineering, computer science, mathematics & data science students in Western Australia! The University of Western Australia Young Engineers invites you to participate in the 2017 Visagio Hackathon. You'll be challenged to work in a team to solve a problem related to Global Health.

Healthcare entrepreneurs and technicians! Want to learn how hackathons have helped launch start-ups? Come and attend PULSECHECK: How HACKATHONS Create Companies. You'll hear how startups emerged from HACKATHONS with viable innovative Healthcare solutions. Following the presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to hack PulseCheck -- the winner will be awarded a Grand Prize.

Tech savvy IoT fans! Are you planning to attend IOT Tech Day 2017? Why not sign up to participate in the IOT Hackathon at the event. You'll collaborate with the best-of-the-best IoT techies in the Netherlands and get to explore the world of the Internet of Things to create new ways to use technology. You'll be using The Things Network to showcase your skills and to build an innovative connectivity solution that can help a business, a government agency, a health-care organization, or a not-for-profit flourish.

FANN Design invites you to attend the Abilities Hackathon Showcase, where participants in the Abilities Hackathon present their project work to be judged. You'll get to see innovative solutions that enable the Baltimore community to address problems faced by those with disabilities. Projects will be presented in the following four tracks: »Aging, »Wearables, »Leisure/Entertainment, and »Open Software/Hardware

Hackers in Bahrain! Are you interested in the application of technology to create smart city solutions? The College of IT at the University of Bahrain invites you to participate in their Smart Cities Research Hackathon. You'll get to create innovative technology solutions for challenges such as efficient buildings, clean and renewable energy, health, safety and security, pollution and environmental protection, and recycling and zero waste.

Healthcare professionals, patients, artists, engineers, and designers in the greater London area! Are you interested in improving patient care in the NHS? Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust invites you to sign up to participate in the Imperial Quality Improvement (iQI) Sprint. You'll get to work with like-minded individuals to conceive innovative healthcare solutions, prototype these new ideas, and test them with patients and hospital staff.

Are you interested in improving patient care in the NHS? Imperial College Healthcare Trust have launched a new series of iQI Sprints to tackle problems that staff are facing in their daily working lives. An iQI Sprint is an intense day of team work where healthcare staff, patients, artists, engineers and designers work together to come up with innovative solutions and test these new ideas with patients and hospital staff. “It ignited a spark between patients and healthcare professionals” Sprint attendee, patient representative The iQI Sprints are open to anyone; you might have a particular interst in healthcare, or an interest in service design or quality improvement or you might be really skilled at problem solving. The iQI Sprints bring together a fantastic mix of people. The day will be facilitated by Dan Phillips, an independent service designer who is also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art, helping teams to navigate the design processes in a complex healthcare setting. BOOK NOW FOR Wednesday 12th April 2017, 09:00 - 17:15 (Registration starts from 08:30 with pastries, coffee and tea) Oak Room, W12 Conference Centre, Hammersmith Hospital Lunch and refreshments provided. Reinbursement for travel costs. For further information please contact us on QI.hub@imperial.nhs.uk or call 020 331 25259

Italian hackers! Are you interested in the application of technology to address the well-being of the aging? You're invited to sign up to participate in #HackAging in Ancona, Italy. The elderly are a rapidly evolving market segment -- travel, mobile device usage and more. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to design and build innovative new ways to access information for more technologically sophisticated older citizens.