What is a Healthcare Hackathon
& What is A2 Health Hacks?
Our definition:
An all-weekend, high-intensity brainstorming and prototyping event for participants from all walks of life: students and professionals and retirees from fields across IT, engineering, design, health and business, collaborating, putting their skills and knowledge together to create an new solution to a problem. Solutions can be websites or apps, devices, service offerings or or business models, to present to the judges by Sunday to win prizes. In the worst case you’ll have a great weekend creating new things with interesting people and go back to your day job on Monday. In the best case you just met your co-founders and started a company.
Ann Arbor Health Hacks (A2H2) is an entirely volunteer-run non-profit with the goal to foster healthcare innovation and spawn healthcare startups in SE Michigan by hosting an annual 150-person hackathon and monthly meetups.
See also:
What’s a Hackathon?
What’s a Makeathon?
In The Press
Women’s Business Conference, A2 Health Hacks, Mackinac Policy Conference
Expanded A2 Health Hacks event tackles health challenges in the developing world
The A2 Health Hacks hackathon will return for its third year June 22-24 with new partners, a new and bigger space, a new prize, and a new focus on addressing health problems in the developing world.
A2 Healthcare Hackathon, Microsoft Philanthropy, TEALS
Ann Arbor Health Hacks Weekend 2017: Removing Barriers to Healthcare
At 2017 Ann Arbor hackathon, groups have 24 hours to find new solutions to old health care problems
Usually, when we hear the word “hacking,” we think of someone breaking into something — like your computer or customer data at a credit card company. But there’s a constructive, positive spin on the word hack too.
A2 Health Hacks is a weekend-long exercise where people come together to find new solutions to old problems in health care.
2017 Ann Arbor Health Hacks Weekend invites broad range of participants to address barriers to care
Ann Arbor Health Hacks Weekend is now in its second year. This year’s theme is “Removing Barriers to Healthcare.” Participants will tackle solutions to problems that prevent people from receiving appropriate care, from affordability to transportation to difficulties taking time off work.
Cardiovascular Center Co-Sponsors 2016 Ann Arbor Health Hackathon
The first annual Ann Arbor Health Hackathon brought together medical professionals, software engineers and public health workers, among others, to brainstorm solutions to global healthcare problems.
The “hackathon” included 24 hours of health-related “hacking,” which involved teams pitching ideas and creating prototypes for solutions to health problems. The event focused on preventing disease in underserved areas of the developing world.
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The first annual Ann Arbor Health Hackathon brought together medical professionals, software engineers, public health workers among others to brainstorm solutions to global healthcare problems from Friday to Saturday in Palmer Commons.
The “hackathon” included 24 hours of health-related “hacking,” which involved teams pitching ideas and creating prototypes for solutions to health problems. The event focused on preventing disease in underserved areas of the developing world.
Teams Innovate, Create At 2016 Ann Arbor Health Hackathon
A kid-friendly mobile app giving children the power to participate in research studies to improve their health won first place at the inaugural Ann Arbor Health Hackathon: Prototyping Disease Prevention, co-sponsored WDI.
The round-the-clock event, held June 24-26 on the University of Michigan campus, drew 91 participants who formed 18 teams comprised of students, researchers, and professionals from the biomedical, engineering, IT, business, clinical, design, and public health sectors. Hackathon judges awarded prizes for first, second and third places, as well as a Cardiovascular Prize. Participants voted on a People’s Choice Prize. Teams were assisted by more than 40 mentors who wandered the room, listened to the groups and provided feedback.
The second-place team created a virtual reality app to help patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, while the third-place team developed a personalized, real-time motion capture application to improve physical therapy. The Cardiovascular Prize went to a team that developed an easy-to-understand, paper-based test to signal onset of atherosclerosis – the buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substances on the artery walls. Finally, the People’s Choice Prize went to a team that worked to connect transportation and grocery stores to increase access to nutritious food.