A healthcare hackathon in Ann Arbor, focusing on disease prevention in developing countries as well as underserved areas of developed countries. Prevention includes information, education of patients and care-takers, policy and social engineering, as much as products and services including personal and surgical hygiene, family planning, wellness, diagnostics, vaccines, and drug adherence as well as novel applications or combinations and ways to insure timely and reliable access to those solutions.
A weekend event during which participants form cross-functional teams to collaborate and compete for prizes, developing a minimum viable product or prototype to tackle a disease prevention problem.
Eligibility
Must register for event and participate on-site
Prizes
Spark Award
Entry into a competitive 8-week entrepreneur boot camp series
SearchLite
Support for business incubation
Cash prizes
May be divided across more than one winning team
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Registration is closed
Judges
Wes Gail
Analyst @ Arboretum Ventures
Vik Kheterpal
Principal MD @ CareEvolution, Inc.
Ann Verhey-Henke
Managing Director for Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship @ University of Michigan School of Public Health
Joyce Lee
Endocrinologist, Designer & Associate Professor @ University of Michigan Medical School & School of Public Health
Paula Sorrell
Principal @ Paula, LLC
Steve Schwartz
CTO @ Genomenon
Judging Criteria
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Overall
Demonstrate reasonable development of a prototype or product and present on during a 5min pitch on the last day of the event: criteria will be around applicability and impact to issues identified in preventive healthcare
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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