HACKATHON FOR HEALTHCARE INNOVATORS
Hack Healthcare is a transformative 2-day event where your organization can explore far-out ideas, connect with potential business partners, and draw inspiration from the collective knowledge of the entire healthcare ecosystem.
RADICAL EXPERIMENTATION IN A FAST-EVOLVING WORLD
While digital transformation is navigating the healthcare ecosystem, innovators in pharma, hospitals, IT companies, and governments find themselves navigating the unknown.
In a volatile, uncertain, and complex world, Hack Healthcare is an open, public “sandbox” where innovators come together to shape the future. It brings the entire ecosystem together to accelerate paradigm shifts and to collaborate on real projects that will solve the most pressing issues in healthcare.
CHALLENGES OF HACK HEALTHCARE 2024
Which are the priority areas of focus in the health sector?
For each edition of Hack Healthcare, we identify 4 broad themes together with our community. Event partners contribute concrete challenges to “hack” at the event, and our community validates and improves those challenges.
Check them out and see what exciting new ideas and potential connections have emerged for each theme:
Accelerate targeted screening and increase the effectiveness of prevention activities
CHALLENGES
- Lung Cancer Screening, hosted by MSD How might we identify existing sources of smoking history data for the estimated 15% of Belgians who are smokers or former smokers, aggregate and enrich this data in full respect of patients’ rights, evaluate the need for additional touchpoints for collecting it, and make it actionable for screening purposes by health authorities, as well as to motivate smokers and former smokers to undergo screening?
- Wellness for women entering menopause, hosted by Helan: How might we bundle existing and new knowledge and services to deliver a holistic personalised, scientifically sound wellness program for women entering menopause, deliver it through a single platform, monitor its effectiveness, and ensure its financial sustainability?
Main goal: Empower patients for greater autonomy through better knowledge and enhanced remote care.
FINAL CHALLENGES
Diabetes: Care team knowledge flow in Ophthalmology, hosted by Roche
Supporting patients in remission (lymphoma), hosted by Roche
How might we put into place a process for long-term surveillance and follow up of patients in remission without needlessly worrying them about new dangers they face as lymphoma survivors?
Seamless and personalised mental health support for lung cancer patients across all treatment settings, hosted by Roche
Main goal: Improve access to clinical and non-clinical healthcare data for research, policy, and reimbursement.
FINAL CHALLENGES
Visually optimise decision support tools for medical professionals (PTRA), hosted by IMEC and VITO
How might we collect sufficient population-level data to enable deployment of personalised medicine and to assess quality of available data by tapping into the audiences – such as women in perimenopause – that are the most likely to share their data in exchange for preventive health insights and decision-making support?
Coping with (peri) menopause: Collecting and using data around menopause, hosted by Faqir Foundation
Main goal: Forget policy. Get cracking on real collaborative action.
FINAL CHALLENGES
Perimenopause literacy for effective conversations with HCPs, hosted by eHealth Venture
How might we enable women to have effective conversations with their HCPs in order to get the right treatment in the short term and to help their HCPs learn more about menopause in the long term?
Youth mental health: addressing school refusal, hosted by Hack Belgium Labs
HOW HACK HEALTHCARE WORKS
Day 2
- More prototyping and validating with patients
- Pitch review with coaches
- Presenting solutions to peers and experts
- Reception & networking
Day 1
- Challenge briefings
- Two rounds of ideation
- Team formation
- Idea stretching and refining
- Prototyping and validating with patients and other experts
JOIN THE HEALTHCARE INNOVATORS COMMUNITY!
Hack Healthcare is open to participants from across the entire healthcare ecosystem: patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, product managers, IT and operations specialists, business developers and other hands-on professionals from across the healthcare industry. Front-line staff, middle management and senior leaders are all welcome!
If you want to envision the future of healthcare and experiment with new ideas, come innovate together with key players from across the healthcare ecosystem at Hack Healthcare.
