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Hacking Health Hackathon, by Besançon (France)

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On October 2018, the Hacking Health chapter of Besançon organized its second health hackathon (open innovation marathon). This event confirmed the enthusiasm raised by the first edition, and highlighted three strong trends:

A vast majority of students participated in the marathon: 75% of the 309 participants came from the local university or the “grandes écoles” (renowned engineer and business schools). This massive mobilization of students generates extraordinary energy, creativity, and generosity.

– The expertise of the local ecosystem is well represented: Microtechnology and miniaturization, a specialty inherited from the watch industry of which Besançon is a leader. Thus, many highly skilled engineers have joined teams composed of digital developers, electronic specialists, and designers.

– An important fablab (Fabrication Laboratory) gathering all the material and human resources of two fablabs and two engineering schools allowed to prototype operational devices in less than 48 hours.

extraordinary energy, creativity, and generosity

In this context, all the 24 health professionals and patients who came to pitch their issue have found a team. No team gave up during the weekend, and the quality of the solutions was terrific. This may explain that, two months after the marathon, two project holders are about to create their startup. Since this cannot be done overnight, we created a 3-month incubator program after the hackathon to assist teams in the maturation of their projects and help them connect with the right partners.

Another novelty in 2018: the creation of a showroom, in parallel with the innovation marathon. Seventeen French and Swiss Hacking Health project leaders came to present their innovation to the public, share their experience, and expand their network.

Join the 2019 hackathon in Besançon

– Or find the nearest Hacking Health event

Would you like to participate in the 3rd Open Innovation Marathon of Health in Besançon? Would you enjoy prototyping solutions to respond to real problems posed by health professionals and patients? What about an exciting and entertaining weekend based on cooperation and exchange?

Join the Hacking Health hackathon in Besançon from 18 to 20 October 2019 and imagine tomorrow’s healthcare solutions!

———- Author: Christophe Dollet, Leader of the Hacking Health chapiter in Besançon and Coordinator of France-based chapters. Christophe works at Smart City, a project of the city of Besançon.

Watch this video to get a feeling of the 2018 hackathon in Besançon.

 

 

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Patient Safety & Mental Health of Professionals

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Patient Safety – Medication Mistakes was the focus of the 2019 Hacking Health hackathon in Espirito Santo (Brazil). This is my third year as a volunteer with this movement. In previous years, I had the opportunity to participate in the discussion on the following topics:

– Prevention of chronic diseases;
– Public health lack of money or management?
– Challenges of an aging population

 

During these three years, I have participated in several events with health professionals (public, private, philanthropic), entrepreneurs, managers, designers, technology personnel, and famous makers. If you’ve never attended a Hacking Health event, I highly recommend it! Excellent ideas and prototypes arise and benefit the whole community. 

 

Something caught my attention since the first edition I participated, no matter the environment (public health, private health, with and without structure). In all issues, the mental health of health professionals has surfaced. I have heard talks like:

“… It is useless having the most advanced technology if we are not motivated …”

“… As long as we are not treated with respect by our hierarchy, it is difficult always to be well to take care of our patients …”

“… Having 3 jobs and turning on duty can not decorate protocols …”

 

I am a psychologist with a specialization in mental health, and I have had the opportunity to develop my career in the public service (Family Health Program, Caps, Hospita gerall, etc.) and part in the private sector. And as it happened during a Hacking Health event, I pulled back memories and realized that this same discussion in the work environment is generally avoided.

The challenge of our 2019 hackathon is about reducing medication errors. And the obvious question must be asked:

What if health professionals’ mental health is correlated to medication errors?


And this question is international. In the US, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Survey (INQRI), nurses experience depression at twice the rate of the general public. Depression affects 9% of ordinary people, but 18% of nurses experience symptoms of depression.

Ironically, health professionals, for many reasons (fear of losing their job, fear that the team considers them unbalanced, fear of showing weakness, etc.) are slow to identify that they are not doing well mentally. They usually attribute discouragement, lack of motivation, or concentration to the fact that they are overwhelmed or lack resources in the work environment, or even lack of appreciation or recognition.

They invented a name for this: Burnout Syndrome

Translated literally means burned out completely, it is a generalized exhaustion.

In the mid-1970s, the first studies appeared in the United States, identifying “burnout” as a syndrome manifested by the exhaustion experienced by workers as a consequence of negative experiences at work. The symptoms are very similar to stress.

However, burnout is always related to a work complaint that may derive from chronic and prolonged stress. Stress is transient, and burnout is continual stress where one is more and more exhausted. Studies show that the psychological profile is of a professional who is often competitive or likes everything right, with a tendency to be a perfectionist, among others. After the illness is established, it is common for the professional to present a lack of involvement with work, chronic stress, insensitivity to others, irritability, and irony towards co-workers.

And what are companies doing to prevent this from happening?

Throughout the year, I hope that Hacking Health promotes conversational wheels and clinics with managers, specialists in the area of People Management for the exchange of successful experiences in this sense. How much damage may occur if we do not take any action at all? For example, by taking care of the mental health of the healthcare professionals, would this not have a direct effect on the quality of the patient’s care? And may reduce the hospitalization time? – which has a direct impact on healthcare costs.

Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) entities will have to have this debate. But we are talking about health of individuals and we should not delegate our health and well-being to others. Yes it is necessary to deal with the day to day and demands, but everything is crystal clear: To be sick and/or exhausted or be hospitalized a little does not matter, the world will continue to turn.

We need to be our #1 priority.

Health professionals need this mental health care, and many do not admit they need it because they are in the role of caregivers. Talk about their experiences, what they feel, the possible causes, to be able to take care of the other without harming the productivity of their team.

By failing to address the issue we put the patient’s life at risk, that of the professional, and we miss the opportunity to guide and improve on Mental Health besides reducing the stigma, prejudice, and discrimination that exists.

We have a long journey ahead and need to learn a lot because there is no immediate revenue, but everything starts with a simple action:

Start talking about it!

About the author of the Post:

Alessandra Fischer is a volunteer at Hacking Health Brasil and the first leader at the Santa Catarina chapter. 25 years of development of actions related to Public Health more specifically in Mental Health with passages by the Municipal Health Secretariat Joinville. Zerbini Foundation, SPDM, and Joinville Regional Hospital. In these places, he had the opportunity to develop several actions from the reception, therapeutic support to patients and relatives, brief therapy and coordination of therapeutic groups

Pictures by Gustavo RPS.

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Our Volunteers Break Silos And Borders

Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit is the first cross-border Hacking Health chapter in the world. It brings together two cities, which comprise a world-class automotive cluster that is reinventing itself as a global leader in health and mobility.

The 100-year-old Ambassador Bridge is iconic of this chapter’s determination to reach across divides and bring creative people together from the tech, health and automotive sectors to collaborate on innovative solutions to healthcare challenges on both sides of the Detroit River.

 

This chapter fosters innovation across the Canadian-US border

Now entering its fifth year – Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit has drawn over 1,000 participants, connected over 60 partner organizations, sparked a half-dozen start-up companies (CarePRN is one of them) and inspired a cross-border MedHealth Summit that annually matches health start-ups with investors .

There is also Kaitlyn Sheehan—a Registered Nurse— who had an idea for a mobile app that could improve health care on both sides of the Detroit-Windsor border. Read her fabulous story here and how she won a hackathon top award for mobile app design in this previous post.

Gathering automotive & healthcare sectors in the same place?

From left to right: Deborah Livneh, Zain Ismail and Yvonne Pilon, members of the HHWD chapter

After the lights dimmed on a successful MedHealth Summit in downtown Detroit in early 2018, one that featured an electric keynote by celebrated neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu featured in the movie Concussion, the organizers gathered in a boardroom at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy at Wayne State University.  Many of those gathered had been founders and leaders from Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit – which provided the spark for the Medhealth Summit.

In part, the organizers wanted to debrief on such a successful meeting and chart potential destinations for Medhealth in 2019.  This meeting raised the potential of bringing talent from the automotive and health-care sectors together.

A year later, we are happy to report that Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit IV will explore the theme of mobility in the fall. The potential for creative engineers and programmers from General Motors and Google and Lyft to talk healthcare is exciting.

 

 

In the video below, Robert C. Brooks, III – a hackathon participant, talks about what the automotive industry can bring to healthcare:

Our Movement Builds Ecosystems of Innovation

At the Medhealth Summit debrief,  Stephen Konya, a Senior Innovation Strategist from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, was invited to lead a discussion. He is exploring the growing network of health-related cluster initiatives across the United States – a cluster of clusters – and the opportunity to integrate the MedHealth Summit.

And that is the genius of Hacking Health – connecting thought leaders from health and tech regionally, opening up promising collaboration between previously sequestered sectors and looking beyond the horizon to connect creative problem solvers globally. That’s Hacking Health’s approach.

 

That’s the magic of a grass-roots movement

Want to support our movement? Join/build your local chapter or make a donation!

 

Original text from Dr. Irek Kusmierczyk,

City Councillor for Ward 7 in the City of Windsor

Director of Partnerships at WEtech Alliance

Leader of the Hacking Health Windsor-Detroit Chapter

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Prevention, Rehabilitation & Recovery in Healthcare Hackathon

Hacking Prevention, Rehab and Recovery in healthcare.

Sign up to the HH Liverpool Spark Board to pitch your healthcare challenge for this years’ hackathon.

No challenges springing to mind? No problem. Check out what challenges are already up on the Spark Board and join a team, your skills are invaluable.

The hackathon starts at 8:30am Saturday 3rd of March and once we’ve finished hearing about all the challenges, we’ll form teams and get hacking. Sunday 4th March, it’s tools down by 12:30pm ready for presentations to the judging panel.

Lunch, dinner and refreshments will be provided, so bring your laptop, your energy and your commitment to innovating healthcare through tech!

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HH Liverpool Cafe: Rehabilitation, Healthcare and Tech

Join us on the 25th of January at Sensor City to hear from a range of speakers about innovations with rehab in healthcare. Meet with other likeminded people passionate about improving healthcare and find out more about how your skills and knowledge can be used to develop innovations and technology within rehab healthcare. Drinks and refreshments provided

 

Guest Speakers

Gabor Barton – Professor of Clinical Biomechanics at Liverpool John Moores University

More TBA soon…

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HH Liverpool cafe: Preventative Healthcare and Tech

Join us on the 30th of November at Sensor City to hear from a range of speakers about innovations in preventative healthcare. Meet with other likeminded people passionate about improving healthcare and find out more about how your skills and knowledge can be used to develop innovations and technology within preventative healthcare. Drinks and refreshments provided

 

Guest Speakers

Paula Carroll – Co-creator of ‘Dr. Feelwell’ and lecturer at Edge Hill University

Elsa Zekeng – from North West Bio Tech Initiative

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HH Hamilton 2017 Hackathon

Hacking Health Hamilton Hackathon 2017

Be part of a global movement bringing innovation to healthcare…Right here in Hamilton!

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Create the future of healthcare

Hacking Health Camp is a 4 day international event dedicated to breaking down the barriers of innovation in healthcare. It includes the largest european hackathon on healthcare.
Inspiring conferences on healthcare future, training workshops on new health technologies, legal aspects, design … and a weekend-long hackathon to build prototypes. Each day we create a space for health professionals, designers, hackers, makers and entrepreneurs to collaborate. It’s an event for anyone interested in health innovation as it rallies health and tech professionals around their common interest, helping them discover amazing possibilities for tomorrow’s health.

One of the best worldwide event on innovation in healthcare is here in Strasbourg
2015 – Jorge Juan Fernandez Garcia

CIO of Moebio program

We all regret we were not in Steve Jobs’s garage in the 70’s, but in 30 years, you will be able to say that you were here in Strasbourg today…
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iHealth President

I learn more in 2 days rather than in the last 5 years
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Phd Cancer, Breast specialist

This hackathon was great encounter, gorgeous creative energy and outcomes ! On of my best professional and human experience have ever lived. Something really AMAZING !!
2015 – Mathieu Robert

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Create the future of healthcare

Hacking Health Camp is a 4 day international event dedicated to breaking down the barriers of innovation in healthcare. It includes the largest european hackathon on healthcare.
Inspiring conferences on healthcare future, training workshops on new health technologies, legal aspects, design … and a weekend-long hackathon to build prototypes. Each day we create a space for health professionals, designers, hackers, makers and entrepreneurs to collaborate. It’s an event for anyone interested in health innovation as it rallies health and tech professionals around their common interest, helping them discover amazing possibilities for tomorrow’s health.

One of the best worldwide event on innovation in healthcare is here in Strasbourg
2015 – Jorge Juan Fernandez Garcia

CIO of Moebio program

We all regret we were not in Steve Jobs’s garage in the 70’s, but in 30 years, you will be able to say that you were here in Strasbourg today…
2014 – Uwe Diegel

iHealth President

I learn more in 2 days rather than in the last 5 years
2015 – Carole Mathelin

Phd Cancer, Breast specialist

This hackathon was great encounter, gorgeous creative energy and outcomes ! On of my best professional and human experience have ever lived. Something really AMAZING !!
2015 – Mathieu Robert

Designer

 

Hacking Health > Strasbourg > Hacking Health Camp 2016Press | FAQ

Live translation available for all conferences between English and French (ask for your headphones at registration)

Admission

 

Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

Introduction (EN)

Hacking Health : Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

odile piot-grosjeansanofi

Keynote

Open-innovation at Sanofi : from R&D to drug, a hope for patients (FR)

Odile Piot-Grosjean – Directrice R&D

Luc Soler

Surgery and Computer Science : Inventing the Future (FR)

Luc Soler

Pierre Garner

Design and Selfcare : When patient meet empowerment (FR)

Pierre Garner

Malcolm Pradhan

Patients sans Frontières – The Future of AI and Deep Learning in Healthcare (EN)

Malcolm Pradhan

 

laurence comte-arassusmedtronic

Keynote

Partnership as a key to move towards value based healthcare (FR)

Laurence Comte Arassus – Vice President Medtronic France

Benoit Thieulin

Connected health, 2.0 or personalized (FR)

Benoit Thieulin

Charles Jaffe

The Future of Healthcare (EN)

Charles Jaffe

 

Break

remy-bourganel

Empathy and data subjectivation (FR)

Remy Bourganel

 

Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

Conclusion (EN)

Hacking Health : Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

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Apéro VIP – Hospices de Strasbourg (invitation required)

 

Accueil

 

Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

Introduction – Keynote

Hacking Health : Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

 

CONFERENCES
(SALLE 1)

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CONFERENCES
(SALLE 2)

 

CONFERENCES
(SALLE 3)

 

WORKSHOPS
(SALLE 4)

Matthieu Robert

Design in healthcare (FR)

Matthieu Robert
Jean Noel Ravey

Medical value of health data (FR)

Jean Noel Ravey

Qualify data value used in healthcare is essential to define which one to catch, how to think and build a winning strategy for the patient : a medical vision to convert data in life hope.
James Agnew

FHIR for hackers (EN)

James Agnew

James Agnew
Become a FHIR expert

4h workshop with James Agnew (special ticket 399€)

Pierre Desmarais

Health connected objects (FR)
*** Canceled **

Pierre Desmarais

Mehdi Benchoufi

Echopen an opensource and ultra mobile ultrasound scan (FR)

Mehdi Benchoufi

echopen est un projet communautaire et Open Source dont l’ambition est de développer un prototype fonctionnel de sonde d’écho-stéthoscopie Open Source Hardware, low cost et qui se connecte à un smartphone ou une tablette. L’objectif est de transformer de manière radicale l’orientation diagnostic dans le cadre de la pratique de l’examen clinique tant dans la médecine des pays du nord que des pays du sud.

Claire Balva

How blockchain can transform healthcare (FR)

Claire Balva

Philippe Charrière

Connected health objects for hearing pathologies (FR)

Philippe Charrière

 

Break

yann-ferrari

Connected patient’s rights and obligations (FR)

Yann Ferrari

Sébastien Jodogne

Pathology and DICOM (EN)

Sébastien Jodogne

David Denysiak

Health Data Hosting Agreement (FR)

David Denysiak

bernard-deregnaucourt

VIDAL API – drug database (FR)

Bernard Deregnaucourt

Patrick Meyer

IBM Watson : cognitive services for health (FR)

Patrick Meyer

Pascal Zellner

Cloud monitoring of health data (EN)

Pascal Zellner

bernard-deregnaucourt

VIDAL API – drug database (FR)

Bernard Deregnaucourt

André Loth

Health data access (FR)

André Loth

Julien Lamy

Odil: implementation of a DICOM library in C++ (EN)

Julien Lamy

Catherine Chronaki

Large scale eHealth deployment in Europe : Do standards matter? (EN)

Catherine Chronaki

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Open mHealth: understanding mobile health data (EN)

Emerson Farrugia

In this talk, we will discuss the movement of health data, specifically mobile health data, from one system to another. We’ll talk about where health data lives, what it looks like, how to get it, and most importantly, how to make sense of it. We’ll cover some of the standards and companies involved, and mention the APIs and tools you can use to interoperate.

Lunch

Denis Pellerin

Design for bio analysis visualisation (FR)

Denis Pellerin

La visualisation d’analyses au service de l’information du patient : une évolution de la relation médecin-laboratoire-patient. Retour d’expérience du projet Nume.

Emmanuel Cordonnier

DICOM video management : current solution and future (FR)

Emmanuel Cordonnier

Olivier Gryson

Perspective in digital health: switching from connected gadgets to e-drugs (EN)

Olivier Gryson

Doctors are currently flooded by a massive offer of mobile apps and other digital services. Many of them may offer true health outcomes, whereas others are useless. What are the key factors that will encourage doctors to move further and systematically embrace some digital solutions.

Emerson Farrugia

Open mHealth: integrating mobile health data (EN)

Emerson Farrugia

In this talk, we will discuss mobile health data APIs and data aggregators. We’ll talk about what data they serve and the types of devices they support, how the APIs are designed, and how to evaluate which to use. We’ll also deploy and run Shimmer, a free and open-source application that makes it easy to get data from seven major APIs and counting.
Fabian Raddatz

Health data protection and regulatory specifics in Germany – taking a closer look at wearables (EN)

Fabian Raddatz

Amandine Lemaitre

DICOMweb (DICOM STOW, WADO, QIDO) : potential and implementation sample (FR)

Amandine Le Maitre

Olivier de Fresnoye

Project Epidemium – open research in cancer (FR)

Olivier de Fresnoye

Epidemium est un programme de recherche scientifique collaboratif et ouvert à tous, crée en partenariat avec Roche et La Paillasse, dont l’ambition est d’explorer le potentiel des Big Data en épidémiologie du cancer, en proposant une série de challenges d’une durée de six mois autour de jeux de données ouverts. Du 5 novembre 2015 au 05 mai 2016, le programme mets à la disposition de tous ceux qui souhaitent contribuer un ensemble de ressources, des jeux de données, des environnements de simulation, un cadre éthique et juridique et l’accès à un écosystème pluridisciplinaire d’experts. www.epidemium.cc

Youen CheneEric Kramer

BigData in healthcare (FR)

Youen Chene & Eric Kramer

Jérôme PansanelNicolasThome

Cloud and DeepLearning with health data (EN)

Jérôme PansanelNicolas Thome

frederic-lambrechts

Fifty shades of Orthanc (EN)

Frédéric Lambrechts

Cécile Monteil

Eppocrate – MD social network (FR)

Cecile Monteil

 

Youen CheneEric Kramer

BigData in healthcare (FR)

Youen Chene & Eric Kramer

 

Break

Cyrille Michaud

Startups in medical devices : be successful with regulations (FR)

Cyrille Michaud

pierre-guntzer

DICOM evolution for supporting the Medical Physics (EN)

Pierre Guntzer

 

Caroline Zorn

Threshold between wellness and health (FR)

Caroline Zorn
Patricia Garcia

Hoodie (EN)

Patricia Garcia

Offline web apps
arnaud-charnoz

Health software certification (FR)

Arnaud Charnoz

Yannick Jost

Connected objects transport and security protocols (FR)

Yannick Jost

 

Marielle MailhesArnaud LambertCecile Théard JalluManuel Ortiz

FUND RAISING ANALYSIS
FOR EARLY STAGE
HEALTH STARTUPS (FR)

Marielle MailhesArnaud LambertCécile Théard-JalluManuel Ortiz
Patricia Garcia

Hoodie (EN)

Patricia Garcia

Offline web apps

 

damien-rillardstephane-becker

Pitch Clinics

Damien Rillard & Stephane Becker

Pitchs training session

Design Clinics

La Fabrique de l’hospitalité

Design tools to well started your project

Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

Introduction

Hacking Health : Sébastien LetéliéLuc Sirois

 

roche

Innovate to improve patient’s quality of life (FR)

Isabelle Vitali – Innovation and Alliances Development Director

Pascal Desfarges

POUR UN BIEN ÊTRE COMMUN À L’HEURE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CONTRIBUTIVE (FR)

Pascal Desfarges

Hacker, remixer, innover par ceux qui vivent, produisent, et inventent la santé de demain

Grand Amphithéâtre de la Fac de médecine

 

 

co-organized by alsace digitale
initiativefrench-tech-alsace

 

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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

slack_for_ios_upload 2 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 initiated an interactive workshop on collaborative creation during which participants were asked to create a corporate health challenge.

 

slack_for_ios_uploadThe co-creation workshop included 30 participants randomly assigned to 5 teams of 6. Each team was immersed in a fictive organization that gave them context for the design of their corporate health challenge. These organizations were: a law firm, a restaurant, a garden shop, a bank, and a video game company. Each organization had context-specific health challenges to tackle.

To make things more interesting, 5 real local health-tech startups were divided amongst the 5 teams and each team had to incorporate the startup’s health technology into their health challenge.

 

One mindmap, ideation session and storyboard later, here is what the teams came up with:

slack_for_ios_upload (1)The first team to pitch their health challenge was assigned to PrakticeHealth, a startup that creates corporate wellness programs for companies. The team’s fictive organization was a bank, and the health challenge they came up with was an inter-branch summer health challenge. Participants would need to log their physical activities, their meals, and their water consumption via an online portal with an integrated reward system for healthy behaviours.

The second team was paired with Cognisens, a startup that tracks cognitive functioning and creates brain training exercises for users. Their fictive organization was a law firm, filled with over-worked and stressed out lawyers. They came up with a health challenge that challenged fictive employees to ‘train their brain’ for better productivity. This would be tracked in a neat mobile application that provided a portal for employees to log their activities and track their cognitive functioning.
The third team was assigned to Hexoskin, a startup that developed a smart garment capable of measuring biometric information with the help of several different types of embedded sensors. Their fictive organization was a garden shop, and their health challenge challenged employees to be more active in the workplace. Their activity level was tracked by the smart garment they would need to wear, and they could compare their results with their colleagues using the associated smartphone app.

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The fourth team was paired with EC3D, a company that develops compression garments for several different uses, such as facilitating blood circulation, reducing inflammation, and improving posture. These garments are often used by athletes to reduce the onset of muscle cramps. Their fictive organization was a restaurant with tired servers and chefs working long hours and carrying heavy dishes. The health challenge they came up with was to incorporate the EC3D garments into their work uniform in the hopes of alleviating back and joint pain.

 

The fifth and final team to pitch their health challenge was paired with Greybox Solutions. Greybox Solutions offers a smart sole for your shoe, which is able to calculate several variables such as steps, pressure points, and activity level. Their health challenge needed to be applied to employees of a videogame shop. Seeing as these employees are quite sedentary, team 5 came up with a challenge to motivate them to get in touch with their health using the smart soles. The smart soles calculate a variety of health-related variables which the participant can consult on a wearable or a smartphone. This would motivate employees to take control over their health and be more active!

We had a great time at C2MTL this year; after 1.5 hours of getting creative, we had 5 great corporate health challenges pitched to us. We hope to be there again next year!

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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

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