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October 2015
Canadian Public Health Challenge kick-off
Hacking Health Montreal invites you to attend the unveiling of the themes for the Desjardins Hacking Health Innovation Challenge (presence is optional) which will take place the 23rd of October at Civic Forum for Innovation and Health Promotion hosted at the Desjardins Complex. This forum is organized by Ste-Justine Hospital as the closing event of its Health Innovation Week. You can participate in a Hacking Health pitch clinic to help you articulate an idea you’d like to pitch and mingle…
Find out more »November 2015
Desjardins HH Innovation Challenge
About this event Health promotion is the best way to stay healthy, live longer, live better and with people you love. Hacking Health and its partners Desjardins, IBM Canada and CHU Sainte-Justine, teamed up this for design challenge, co-presented by Desjardins Insurance. By organizing the Health+Promotion Innovation Challenge we brought together professionals from the health and IT sector as well as designers and any citizen committed to their health. Desjardins, Ste-Justine Children's Hospital and Hacking Health worked together to identify 5 key themes…
Find out more »HH Winnipeg 2014 hackathon
PRIZE FOR MOST COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL Pre-Operative Testing Team LogixMD Ganesan Abu, Clayton Wilchowy and Keegan Walker (Big Package - Consultation Services from Eureka, Ade & Co, and GDC Manitoba) Read more on this success story here PRIZE FOR INNOVATION DischargeLink Team: Xibiao Ye and Dan Major ($1500 from LSAM for BIO Convention) AUDIENCE CHOICE (DESIGN) AWARD V-Stat Team: Ganesan Abu, Patrick Benske, Patrick Bullert, George Chen, Dennis Koverzin (Passes to Innovate MB’s Launch’pad Workshop) CHECK OUT PROJECTS NATIONAL SPONSOR
Find out more »HH Hamilton, ON café “Teamwork”
Starts at 6:30pm! Hacking Health Hamilton is a forum where innovators in healthcare, design, and technology meet, discuss, and share their enthusiasm for improving healthcare through collaboration and innovation. • You might be a physician, nurse, therapist, or allied health professional with an idea that could solve a problem, and you are looking for technical and design help to make that idea a reality. • You might be an app builder with a concept for improving health and looking for…
Find out more »Bench to Bedside – Shark Tank Pitch Day
Our partner healthcare marketing agency gyro:human has invited us to Bench to Bedside Initiative, a collaborative effort between gyro:human, Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering to help PhD students, scientific researchers and physicians translate their scientific ideas into commercial products/services. The semester long program culminates in a shark-tank pitch day where teams will present their businesses plans around unlicensed IP at WCMC, MSKCC, and Rockefeller university for seed stage funding on November 19th. The program is in very early stage but has…
Find out more »December 2015
Digital Health Year-End Bonanza
We are excited to announce the End-of-the-Year Digital Health Party in collaboration with Blueprint Health, gyro:human, NYP Innovation Center, Startup Digest, Rocketure, and other healthcare pioneers on Dec. 15th. Come join us for the night of networking as we usher out a remarkable year and look towards even greater achievements in 2016. We are looking forward to hear your feedback on our ongoing & planned activities and touch-base on Health Hackathon event we are targeting to host early Spring'16. Details will…
Find out more »January 2016
Health Data Aggregation & Management
Join us for the discussion with the CEO of Open mHealth - David Haddad Open mHealth, a non-profit startup and open source system that's making mobile health data more accessible. Code produced by Open mHealth is open-sourced through the Apache 2.0 license; this means that the code base can be adapted and evolved by the community members, and it also gives the people who uses the platform the ability to customize it for their specific needs. Open mHealth helps healthcare…
Find out more »HH Café – Edmonton
Hacking Health is designed to improve healthcare by inviting technology creators and healthcare professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. Our hackathons and workshops are fun, intense, hands-on events where small teams tackle tough problems in a supportive community of peers and mentors. Guest Speaker: Dr. Denis Vincent is a family physician from Edmonton who tackled the frustrating issue of fax referrals at Hacking Health Edmonton 2013. He has since built a team and founded ezReferral,…
Find out more »VertMTL Marathon Launch
(Event in French) Join us this Thursday for the launch of the VertMTL marathon and to reduce the dependence of Montrealers on fossil fuels. This public consultation, organized by the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM), challenges the community to innovate and suggest innovative solutions against the challenges and problems that fossil fuels represent. The marathon is designed to mobilize local citizens interested in the environmental issues, as well as technological entrepreneurs and field specialists in sustainable development and innovation. Admission…
Find out more »“Building”: Hacking Health Hamilton Café January
Are you interested in healthcare innovation? Are you a healthcare professional, designer, or software developer? Then this is where you need to be for demos, talks and networking on how we can bring about massive change. For this Café we are at the new David Braley Health Sciences Building right downtown. This beautiful building is a symbol of the investment in healthcare right downtown. Andrew MacArthur: "Building an Internet of DNA to Combat Antibiotic Resistance" Andrew is a professor of…
Find out more »VertMTL Ideathon Time: Healthier Social Habits for a greener Montreal
McGill Law and Hacking Health joins the creative Marathon to present you techniques to incentivize change, followed by a round table period where you can brainstorm your own ideas with other participants!
Find out more »February 2016
HH Café – Edmonton
Looking to explore development options for your next healthcare app (perhaps for the upcoming #HHYEG2016 hackathon), or curious about cognitive computing and how Watson can help tame Big Data? Get up close and personal with experts from IBM to learn about Bluemix - a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is used for creating, managing and deploying applications on the cloud. Learn more about the Bluemix platform, followed by a short talk and Q&A session with Social Angel, the…
Find out more »HH Edmonton Workshop – IBM Bluemix Tutorial
So you attended our Bluemix cafe (not yet registered? Tickets still available!) and have a better understanding of the many ways the platform can give your next healthcare app an edge. You've heard from the Social Angel team how they leveraged Bluemix to build the top award winning app at the Health+Promotion Innovation Challenge in Montreal. Maybe you've come up with an amazing idea to put the Watson and the cognitive abilities of the platform to work in…
Find out more »HH Hamilton pre-hackathon workshop
Are you interested in pitching a health care challenge to solve? Need help crafting your project pitch? Need help to develop your solution but not sure who you need on your team? Want to learn more about how a Hacking Health Hackathon works? NATIONAL SPONSORS DIAMOND GOLD SILVER BRONZE LOCAL SPONSORS TITLE SPONSORS
Find out more »Hacking Health – Edmonton hackathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umho6Ti3T_8 AGE-WELL NCE AGE-WELL NCE (Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement and Long Life NCE Inc.) is a national research network in technology and aging whose aim is to help older Canadians to maintain their independence, health and quality of life through accessible technologies that increase their safety and security, support their independent living, and enhance their social participation. Some of the projects currently underway include: innovative technologies for caregivers, mobile robotics for activities of…
Find out more »HH Toronto Cafe: Past, Present, Future!
Happy New Year Health Hackers! We are kicking off the Hacking Health meetups starting in February. HH Toronto's next Café is about hearing and learning from HH teams of the past. Through the past few years Hacking Health (HH) Toronto has been the catalyst and birth place for some amazing ideas and products whose aim is to marry tech and healthcare. Teams have managed to bring products from ideation to implementation. HH Toronto's first Café of 2016 will bring back…
Find out more »HH Hamilton 2016 hackathon
Challenges To advance efforts to promote healthy living, prevent social isolation and reduce injury, we need new solutions, tools and partnerships.Participate to the Public Health Challenge in Hamilton! PHRI: Evaluating Digital Cures Health apps are like the wild west, with digital snake oil mixed in with gold-standard health apps and it’s hard to consumers to tell the difference. Population Health Research Institute knows the how to tell the difference from a research point of view, having conducted studies with more than 1,000,000…
Find out more »March 2016
HH Vancouver HxD Café: Innovation Boulevard
It's no secret that that the Hacking Health Vancouver and Healthcare Experience Design Vancouver (HxD) communities are big fans of cross-sector collaboration in healthcare technology: we know that the perfect mix of clinical knowledge with technical and design expertise is a surefire recipe for the kind of innovation that can make a real difference. So for this special event, we're excited to invite you to come observe a fantastic example of collaboration in its natural habitat: Innovation Boulevard in Surrey!…
Find out more »HH Montreal Healthcare Design Studio
Good design breaks down the barriers to innovation in healthcare. Hacking Health has teamed up wtih Tout Le Monde UX to offer a unique design exercise for healthcare practitioners, technologists, and business people wishing to upgrade the patient experience through excellent use of design. Admission NATIONAL SPONSOR
Find out more »Hacking Health Vancouver Café: Crafting the Perfect Pitch
Communication is key to effective collaboration. At this pitch clinic, we'll help you learn how to effectively craft a 60 second elevator-style pitch that will convey your idea in a way that transcends disciplines and reaches each individual regardless of their background or perspective! If you are considering pitching an idea at the April 2nd Hacking Health Design Challenge kickoff event, attending this pitch clinic is highly recommended: we'll help you learn how to deliver the right type and amount…
Find out more »April 2016
HH Halifax Café & Chapter Launch
Join us at Hacking Health Halifax Café on April 14 Be a part of the first Hacking Health chapter in Atlantic Canada! Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups to discuss and debate digital health topics – where people and ideas mingle. Hacking Health aims to transform healthcare by connecting healthcare professionals with designers, developers, innovators and entrepreneurs to build realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line healthcare problems. We'll be hosting cafes and workshops leading up to a weekend hackathon in November 2016. Who…
Find out more »Hacking Health Toronto: Designing For Health
HH Toronto's next Café is about the importance of design in healthcare and how that ultimately helps make an impact on the patient. Join us on Tuesday April 26th to hear and learn from our guest speakers Here is how the night is going to go: 1. 6:00 - 6:15pm: Networking and food 2. 6:15 - 6:30pm: Opening remarks, word from our partner IBM 3. 6:30 - 7:50pm: Guest Speaker Presentations 4. 7:50 - 8:30pm: Wrap-up and Networking Guest…
Find out more »May 2016
Big Data in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
Opportunities and challenges of big data in healthcare. This edition of the Hacking Health Café aims to bring together industry professionals and academic researchers to discuss cutting-edge innovation in healthcare possible with big data, open data and artificial intelligence. Do not miss this opportunity to withness first-hand the stories and experiences from professionnals and to interact with them during the panel discussion! How you can take advantages of big data in your organization? Participate in this Hacking Health Cafe…
Find out more »HH Ottawa: Designing for Healthcare
Are you a developer, designer, policy analyst or engaged citizen interested in the healthcare industry? Are you someone simply looking to learn more about innovating within healthcare? Join us at our Hacking Heath Cafe for and informative, fun and an inspirational evening! There is free parking in the underground garage across the street from us (the C.D. Howe Building at 235 Queen). NATIONAL SPONSORS DIAMOND GOLD SILVER BRONZE LOCAL SPONSORS TITLE SPONSORS …
Find out more »HH Vancouver Design Challenge Café #2
We're already half-way to e-Health - the perfect time for another Hacking Health Vancouver Design Challenge café! Join us on Wednesday, May 11th at the UBC Medical Student & Alumni Centre (at 12th Ave. and Heather, near VGH). We'll catch up, share progress, and hear words of wisdom from an inspiring speaker with clinical, business, and technical perspective on what it takes to turn a great idea into a successful venture! Guest Speaker Featuring special guest: Peter Payne Co-Associate Director, SFU Venture Connection…
Find out more »Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit II
Welcome to Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit II! Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing together IT and healthcare professionals across the US-Canada border to collaborate, dream up & design apps for patient-centric care. The first Windsor-Detroit Hacking Health was held at Tech Town Detroit – an innovation hub just five minutes from the border in May, 2015. Building on that success Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit II will be crossing the border into Windsor May 13-15, 2016 which…
Find out more »Les 24h de l’innovation
An international competition: Teams have 24 hours to find creative solutions to challenges put forward by businesses. Take part in the 2016 edition of Les 24h de l ‘innovation; be ready to play on May 24 at 9:00 a.m Admission NATIONAL SPONSOR
Find out more »Hacking Health Vancouver Design Challenge Demo Workshop
With e-Health right around the corner, it's time to start thinking about presenting your amazing work to the conference delegates and judges! We'll start off by covering everything you need to know about e-Health demos, and how to showcase your project and develop a killer presentation within the guidelines you'll have there: An overview of the presentations to come (Sunday night recaps/preliminary judging/final judging), and the format and timing of each A review of the judging process A talk…
Find out more »HH Montreal @ C2MTL: Innovative in the workplace through health challenge
80% of today's workforce has a sedentary job and 78% identify of employees their workplace as stressful. MONTREAL, MAY 25 2016 Event recap - Hosted by Juliana Alvarez, Designer in Residence in Co-Director of Research, Hacking Health In collaboration with the Government of Québec, Hacking Health hosted a co-creation workshop at one of the most captivating conferences of the year, C2MTL. Charged with the mission to re-think the workplace of the future and the future of collaboration, Hacking Health…
Find out more »HH Toronto Cafe: Ontario’s Health Innovation Agenda
HH Toronto's next Café is on learning about Ontario's health innovation agenda, and find out about new funding opportunities to prototype and scale healthcare projects. Our guest speaker is William (Bill) Charnetski, Chief Health Innovation Strategist for Ontario. Here is how the night is going to go: 1. 6:00 - 6:30pm: Networking and food 2. 6:30 - 6:35pm: Opening remarks 3. 6:35 - 7:35pm: Guest Speaker Presentations 4. 7:35 - 8:00pm: Wrap-up and Networking We will update this post as…
Find out more »HH Montreal – Health: Ideas to improve access to care
Speakers Can the public and private systems co-exist? Access to free health care is a right protected by law in Canada. The word "private" is perceived by citizens as a threat to this right. If the public health care system utilises the private system to make care more accessible to patients; does it become less public? This theme is aimed at identifying the true issues by looking at a few real life case studies. Alain Vadeboncoeur shares a recent presentation. Suggested…
Find out more »June 2016
HH Vancouver Design Challenge
About Vancouver Design Challenge Hacking Health partnered with eHealth 2016, its national sponsor Desjardins Insurance and local sponsor Gevity to deliver the 8-week Design Challenge. The competing teams' efforts culminated in a showcase presentation with prizes awarded at the e-Health 2016 Conference. The challenge initially began with the Kick-Off Event on Saturday, April 2nd at the Centre for Digital Media, an event co-presented by Desjardins Insurance. Design Challenge Projects Missed the event? Watch the micro pitches below and learn about some of the great ideas developed…
Find out more »HH Halifax: Design Thinking Café & Workshop
Join us at Hacking Health Halifax: Design Thinking Café & Workshop on June 22 Be a part of the first Hacking Health chapter in Atlantic Canada! Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups to discuss and debate digital health topics – where people and ideas mingle. Hacking Health aims to transform healthcare by connecting healthcare professionals with designers, developers, innovators and entrepreneurs to build realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line healthcare problems. We'll be hosting cafés and workshops leading up to a weekend hackathon…
Find out more »HH Montreal – Hacking Memory: Exploring Tech in Neuroscience
Hacking Health Montreal and NeuroTechMTL invite you to an exciting café where a unique combination of perspectives will come together to explain how advancements in neurotechnology are going to change how we understand and work with memory. Researchers, physicians, technology entrepreneurs and caregivers are all an important part of this journey and you will hear what each has to say. Refreshments will be served. SPEAKERS Dr. Frank Knoefel Dr. Knoefel will provide a brief overview of dementia and some…
Find out more »HH Toronto Cafe: Physician-Led Innovation
Hacking Health (HH) Cafés: where ideas and people mingle. Join us at our next Hacking Health Café for an informative, fun and inspirational evening! Hacking Health, in partnership with Cossette Health, is proud to present a Hacking Health Café event on the theme of physician-led innovation. Opening remarks will be made by Hadi Salah and the Managing Director of Cossette Health, Dr. John Reeves, who has been disrupting healthcare since entering clinical practice in 1994. Dr. Reeves believes that physicians…
Find out more »July 2016
HH Ottawa Huddle
On the road to medical innovation It’s time for all of us who are passionate about innovation in healthcare to unite once again to work on real problems that were identified with CHEO’s healthcare practitioners! The HHOttawa Huddle is designed to start ideating and working on specific problems in healthcare that need our immediate attention. This will be a precursor to our Hackathon in 2017 so we can hit the ground running. And like any HHOttawa event, we offer…
Find out more »August 2016
Joule H 2– Hacking Health Design Day
About this event Do you spend time thinking about ways to make an impact on patients’ lives and the future of health care? Maybe you already have an idea or many and are looking for a way to bring them to life. Then this event is for you! Physicians, let's redesign healthcare! Joule TM is partnering with Hacking Health to host a fun Joule H2 TM - Hacking Health Design Day in Vancouver this summer! When: Saturday, August…
Find out more »September 2016
Hacking Health Café – Québec – Sept 7, 2016
Check the French version of this event for more information (Francophone event). Introduction processus HHQuébec (5 mins) Présentation générale 5 à 10 défis (2 mins / défi) (10-20 mins) Rencontres en rafale avec les porteurs des défis. (5 mins / défi) (50 mins) Présentation plateforme d'idéation et processus Marathon (15 mins) Étape d'idéation, échange et entrée des idées dans la plateforme (1h 25 mins) FIN SPONSORS NATIONAUX DIAMANT OR ARGENT BRONZE ORGANISATEURS…
Find out more »HH NYC Entrepreneurship Series – Biotech
Hacking Health NYC is continuing to support entrepreneurship initiative started with the Bench to Bedside Initiative. BBI is starting its 12 week seminar series “From Bench to Bedside: Business Fundamentals for Entrepreneurial Scientists”. The program aims to educate scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University about the fundamentals of starting and building a company in the healthcare industry. The end goal is to help these inventors turn their intellectual property into feasible businesses. The program will…
Find out more »Hacking Health Café – Québec – Sept 21, 2016
Check the French version of this event for more information (Francophone event). Introduction processus HHQuébec (5 mins) Présentation générale 5 à 10 défis (2 mins / défi) (10-20 mins) Rencontres en rafale avec les porteurs des défis. (5 mins / défi) (50 mins) Présentation plateforme d'idéation et processus Marathon (15 mins) Étape d'idéation, échange et entrée des idées dans la plateforme (1h 25 mins) FIN SPONSORS NATIONAUX DIAMANT OR ARGENT BRONZE ORGANISATEURS…
Find out more »HH NYC – SKIN HEALTH DIGITAL COLLABORATORY
Hacking Health NYC is hosting a Kickoff Meetup for an exciting three-part series we’re co-organizing: the inaugural SHIELD SKIN HEALTH DIGITAL COLLABORATORY – LET’S CONNECT AND TRANSFORM SKIN HEALTH! This Meetup is the first of three SHIELD digital collaboration events and will feature a talk and Q&A with Dr. Warren Winkelman from Nestlé Skin Health SHIELD (Skin Health Investigation, Education and Longevity Development). At this Meetup, Dr. Winkelman will introduce you to the basics of skin health, why it matters…
Find out more »HH St. John’s Café & Chapter Launch
Join us for the first Hacking Health St. John's Café on Tuesday, September 27th at the Medical Education Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups where technology innovators, healthcare professionals, students, researchers, and community advocates meet to discuss and debate the challenges of our healthcare system and technologies that will overcome them. Our first Hacking Health Café will introduce the Hacking Health model to the St. John's community and lay out our schedule of events…
Find out more »October 2016
Hacking Health Café – Québec – October 5, 2016
Check the French version of this event for more information (Francophone event). Introduction processus HHQuébec (5 mins) Présentation générale 5 à 10 défis (2 mins / défi) (10-20 mins) Rencontres en rafale avec les porteurs des défis. (5 mins / défi) (50 mins) Présentation plateforme d'idéation et processus Marathon (15 mins) Étape d'idéation, échange et entrée des idées dans la plateforme (1h 25 mins) FIN SPONSORS NATIONAUX DIAMANT OR ARGENT BRONZE ORGANISATEURS…
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Find out more »HH St. John’s Café #2
Join us for the second Hacking Health St. John's Café on Wednesday, October 26th at the College of the North Atlantic on Prince Philip Drive. Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups where technology innovators, healthcare professionals, students, researchers, and community advocates meet to discuss and debate the challenges of our healthcare system and technologies that will overcome them. Café #2 will focus on the top ideas from our first café, as voted by attendees: integrating healthcare data, preventive healthcare,…
Find out more »November 2016
HH QUÉBEC HEALTH INNOVATION MARATHON
Check the French version of this event for more information (Francophone event). Bienvenue Description du déroulement et règles du jeu Présentation projets Formation des équipes Début du marathon Planification et vue d'ensemble Ouverture des portes - Déjeuner Présentation de la boîte à outils HACK! Dîner HACK! Pause Santé HACK! Ouverture des portes - Déjeuner Préparation présentation Démos Vérification technique Audiovisuelle Dîner Présentation des démos Remise des prix Fermeture des portes SPONSORS NATIONAUX DIAMANT OR ARGENT …
Find out more »Hacking Health Waterloo Hackathon
Presenting Sponsor Our first annual Hacking Health Waterloo Hackathon is a weekend-long hackathon that breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing together IT and healthcare professionals to collaborate, dream up & design apps, devices and solutions for patient-centric care. Register here! This year's theme: Brain Health, Aging and Wellness Our Hackathon Challenges: Emergency Department Visits: Solutions that reduce or avoid unnecessary emergency department visits for older adults living with dementia. Falls prevention: Solutions that prevent…
Find out more »HH Ottawa: Health Innovation Platform Launch
Think there are inefficiencies in the healthcare space? Want to be part of the solution? Join us, we are looking forward to launching HIP - Ottawa's first Health Innovation Program with our anchor partner CHEO-OCTC (Children's hospital of Eastern Ontario/Ottawa's Children Treatment Center). Hacking Health Ottawa has invited Ottawa's leading healthcare professionals, digital creatives and entrepreneurs (that's you) to come together for a night of inspiration on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. In addition to launching our official event lineup leading…
Find out more »HH St. John’s Café #3
Join us for our third Hacking Health St. John's November Café on Tuesday, November 29th at the Medical Education Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups to discuss and debate health and technology – where people and ideas mingle. See you there!
Find out more »December 2016
HHNYC – The Nestle Skin Health Digital Design Collaboratory
The Skin Health Digital Design Collaboratory is your head start to compete in the February 2017 Nestlé Skin Health SHIELD Hackathon where you can pitch your idea and win a $25,000 prize and a year-long partnership with SHIELD and co-working space. The Skin Health Digital Design Collaboratory is open to anyone with fresh ideas and the desire and drive to create real solutions. Whether you’re coming from healthcare, technology, dermatology, engineering, research, business, or you’re just interested in…
Find out more »January 2017
eHealth is a Team Sport
eHealth is a Team Sport This month, McMaster's Master of Science in eHealth program is hosting us at the new McMaster Centre for Continuing Education, right at the corner of King and James. You may have noticed this ultra-modern upgrade to the existing building as you passed by. Now we have a chance to get inside and enjoy their hospitality. What are they up to at Mac eHealth? You may also have heard about the Mac eHealth program. It's a…
Find out more »February 2017
HH Ottawa: HIP613 – Design Thinking Workshop powered by IBM
HIP613 - Design Thinking Workshop powered by IBM Come learn the collaborative design approach to solving problems at IBM’s Design Studio! Be prepared to dive into your projects and get your hands dirty as we give you the toolkit needed to work through your design problems in preparation for the hackathon. You’ll come away with an understanding of your key stakeholders, their current experience, and sketches of new solutions, as well as new collaboration tools. If you don’t have a…
Find out more »Age-Well – HH Design Workshop
About Ideathon: A Canada wide competition for Healthy Aging An ideathon is a collaborative, workshop-like event where diverse stakeholders harness their collective knowledge and creativity to brainstorm innovative solutions to pressing challenges. Participants use patient-centric design techniques and methodologies (such as ideation, journey mapping, and prototyping), and the creation of an initial business case to propose a novel solution. The first event will take place Toronto February 3, 2017 at the MaRS Discovery District, and will required a small…
Find out more »What the future holds for ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid in 2017
Adam Sabloff, one of NYC's best healthtech startup CEO will be joining us to discuss what 2017 holds for ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid and why (and how) population health management is becoming increasingly important for healthcare systems. More about the event: We are happy to bring you yet another awesome meetup on a very interesting and hot topic: Population Health. Pay-for-Value reform is keeping healthcare organizations challenged on many aspects. As much as providers and payers are trying to keep up and…
Find out more »Health in the Workplace – Workshop
The FIT24 Network is the interdisciplinary group of health and productivity researchers and their 9 confirmed partners who are interested in the "Active Office". They are funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Researchers include Mickaël Begon et Marie-Eve Mathieu from UdeM and Pierre-Majorique Léger, Elise L-Lemoyne, and Sylvain Sénécal from HEC Montreal. This co-design workshop + cocktail activity to enhance the partnerships of the "Network FIT24 Network" is the first…
Find out more »HH St. John’s Café #4
Join us for our fourth Hacking Health St. John's November Café on Thursday, February 16th at the Medical Education Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. Hacking Health Cafés are informal meetups to discuss and debate health and technology – where people and ideas mingle. See you there!
Find out more »Feb Meetup @IBM
Collaborative Innovation in Hamilton with IBM This month, IBM's Collaborative Innovation Centre – Healthcare, Hamilton is hosting us at their temporary space on the 14th floor of Commerce Place right at the centre of the city. IBM Canada and Hamilton Health Sciences announced plans to establish a new centre focused on healthcare innovation. The centre will give area healthcare providers, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs advanced technology tools and expertise to improve healthcare outcomes and put Hamilton on the map as…
Find out more »Asthma Co-creation Workshop
Hacking Health is organizing a workshop dedicated asthma, a very common but not well-controlled disease. The goal will be to explore and define the challenges surrounding asthma and to design solutions to help asthmatic patients. The Asthma Workshop has been made possible through the collaboration between Hacking Health and Merck Canada Inc. When? Saturday, February 25th, 2017 9am-3:30pm Why? Asthma impacts the lives of a large portion of the population. In 2010, 2.4 million (8.4%) Canadians aged 12 years and over…
Find out more »March 2017
Age-Well – HH Design Workshop
About Ideathon: A Canada wide competition for Healthy Aging An ideathon is a collaborative, workshop-like event where diverse stakeholders harness their collective knowledge and creativity to brainstorm innovative solutions to pressing challenges. Participants use patient-centric design techniques and methodologies (such as ideation, journey mapping, and prototyping), and the creation of an initial business case to propose a novel solution. This event is part of a series organized by AGE WELL and HACKING HEALTH, and will culminate with a grand…
Find out more »Nestlé Hackathon
Hacking Health NYC is excited to partner with Nestle Skin Health SHIELD to tackle the fourth most common cause of all human disease - SKIN HEALTH AND WELLNESS. Skin wellness is about more than just disease. Our skin is our largest organ, our interface with the world and our window inside our bodies. If you have an idea and the drive to create real solutions for skin health and wellness, The SHIELD Skin Tech Hackathon is for YOU! Win up…
Find out more »Pre-hackathon café
Artificial intelligence could cut healthcare costs by up to 50%. AI empowers machines by allowing them not only to perceive and analyze, but also react and take action. When it comes to healthcare, how does this translate on the field? Speakers Dr. Richard Sztramko Dr. Richard Sztramko practices both Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine at St. Peter’s, Hamilton General, and Juravinski Hospitals. He received his Bachelor of Health Sciences from McMaster University and Medical Degree from the University of Toronto.…
Find out more »Lean Startup Workshop
The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get a desired product to customers' hands faster. The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup (how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere) and grow a business with maximum acceleration. It is a principled approach to new product development. On March 22nd, John Beresford will lead a session that will provide attendees with the following learning outcomes: - Path to Problem…
Find out more »Pre-hackathon café
HIP613 Café - Turning Ideas into Projects and More Success Stories What does it take to create a successful project? Join us for a panel and learn how ideas turn into projects and success stories! You can expect to hear from passionate leaders that have been obsessed with helping the healthcare sector by creating solutions to help hospitals and patients. We will learn from them that have successfully brought an idea to life to inspire you to create big for…
Find out more »HH Monterrey Marzo Meetup 2017
Hacking Health Monterrey te invita al HH Marzo Meetup 2017 este Jueves 23 de Marzo 2017 a las 19:00 hrs en El Cowork, con el tema de "Manejo de Datos Personales en Salud" con la presentación del Ing. Jorge Alan Garcia Bazan, Information Security Manager at Nemotek. REGISTRO EN EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hh-marzo-meetup-2017-tickets-3156994656
Find out more »Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon
Join us for our FIRST Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon! March 24 - 26, 2017 REGISTER NOW! Our first annual Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon is a weekend-long hackathon that breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing together IT and healthcare professionals to collaborate, dream up & design apps, devices and solutions for patient-centric care. We've set up our Sparkboard! This site will help us know who is coming to the event, what ideas teams are working on, and who…
Find out more »HH Ottawa: #HIP613 – Healthcare Insights with Cognos and Watson Analytics
#HIP613 - Healthcare Insights with Cognos and Watson Analytics Join us to learn how to take advantage of the power of Cognos and Watson Analytics to analyze real world healthcare data to explore and discover new insights. We'll start off by looking at some simple use cases and end up ramping it up to showcase some awesome techniques. Analyze your data, find some key insights and build a great looking dashboard in just a few clicks. Learn how to get…
Find out more »Hacking Health St. John’s Hackathon
POSTPONED: Due to the forecasted storm this weekend, the Hacking Health Hackathon is postponed. Updates regarding the rescheduled date and venue will be posted on Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, and http://hackinghealth.ca/stjohns/ when available. Have you identified problems related to health promotion within your domain? Do you have a solution in mind but need help realizing it? Do you have an idea for a mobile or web-based application that can change everything for you or your colleagues/patients? Register today and share it!…
Find out more »April 2017
HH Ottawa: #HIP613 – IBM Bluemix For Healthcare (Part 2)
#HIP613: IBM Bluemix For Healthcare (Part 2) In this part 2 of the IBM Bluemix workshop we will continue to build on your new skill set needed for you to develop your own program during the Hacking Health Ottawa hackathon. (Sign up for Part 1 of this workshop here.) Furthermore, will build a dashboard to show data being streamed in real time. Preparation We highly suggest that you attend part 1 of this workshop to ensure that you’ll be able…
Find out more »Crafting the Perfect Pitch
HIP613: Crafting the Perfect Pitch What does it take to create a successful project? Communication is key to effective collaboration. At this pitch clinic, we'll help you learn how to effectively craft a 60 second elevator-style pitch that will convey your idea in a way that transcends disciplines and reaches each individual regardless of their training or perspective! If you are considering pitching an idea at the Hacking Health Ottawa #HIP613 Hackathon attending this pitch clinic is highly recommended: we'll…
Find out more »Health Data: The Whole Patient Narrative in one place
Come and hear health data pioneer Mana Health talk about the (occasionally scary and intimidating) healthcare data landscape. There are thousands of medical databases and hundreds of devices that need to be interconnected in order to optimize patient care. These connections have traditionally been complex and difficult to achieve but we are at an exciting turning point where this old paradigm is undergoing a massive transformation into a new reality of unified, easy access to the whole patient narrative…
Find out more »HH Ottawa: Hackathon #HIP613
Hacking Health Ottawa #HIP613 Hackathon « Nous sommes plus qu’un hackathon, nous voulons apportez de l’innovation aux soins de santé. » Le Hackathon est enfin arrivé! Postulez ici (formulaire disponible en anglais seulement), et n’oubliez pas d’enregistrer la date! La priorité sera donnée aux participants engagés, alors venez rencontrer notre communauté avant le hackathon. Ajoutez votre idée ou inscrivez-vous à une équipe sur le Sparkboard. Les personnes intéressées sont encouragées à assister aux événements préparatoires. Si vous souhaitez simplement être…
Find out more »HH Hamilton 2017 Hackathon
Hacking Health Hamilton Hackathon 2017 Be part of a global movement bringing innovation to healthcare...Right here in Hamilton!
Find out more »Hackathon HIP
Hacking Health Ottawa #HIP613 Hackathon “We’re more than a hackathon, we’re bringing innovation to healthcare” The Hackathon is finally here! Apply here to participate, and don’t forget to Save the Date! Priority will be given to engaged participants so come and meet our community before the hackathon. Add your idea or sign-up for a team by joining our Sparkboard. Interested applicants are encouraged to attend preparatory events. If you would just like to be an observer for the night (pitch/finale)…
Find out more »May 2017
Hackathon III
https://youtu.be/Ily7Jgp7gUo Register now for Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit III Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing together IT and healthcare professionals across the US-Canada border to collaborate, dream up & design apps for patient-centric care. The first Windsor-Detroit Hacking Health was held at TechTown Detroit – an innovation hub just five minutes from the border in May, 2015. Building on that success Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit II crossed the border into Windsor May 13-15, 2016 which was…
Find out more »Age-Well – HH Design Workshop
About Ideathon: A Canada wide competition for Healthy Aging An ideathon is a collaborative, workshop-like event where diverse stakeholders harness their collective knowledge and creativity to brainstorm innovative solutions to pressing challenges. Participants use patient-centric design techniques and methodologies (such as ideation, journey mapping, and prototyping), and the creation of an initial business case to propose a novel solution. This event is part of a series organized by AGE WELL and HACKING HEALTH, and will culminate with a grand…
Find out more »HH NYC From Research to Healthcare Startup: Meet Blink
Join us and welcome our guest presenter David Schafran, co-founder of Blink and EyeNetra! Launched in 2015 in NYC, Blink uses technology developed at MIT Media Lab and powered by a smartphone to dramatically improve the convenience and accessibility of vision testing services. Blink uses highly trained Visioneers to conduct in-home and at-work vision tests in concert with a network of licensed optometrists to provide convenient prescriptions for glasses. The Blink service is based on FDA registered technology and products from EyeNetra. EyeNetra,…
Find out more »June 2017
eHealth Conference
Calling all hackers, designers, developers, and engineers! Join Hacking Health Toronto and CIHR at eHealth 2017 for the biggest hackathon EVER with up to $675k of grants allocated to transform your hackathon prototypes into fully baked and potentially commercially viable solutions. Hacking Health TO is back at the National eHealth 2017 conference in collaboration with CIHR and the Mental Health Commission of Canada to tackle one of Canada’s most pressing challenges: workplace mental health and wellbeing. The goal of this…
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