All posts tagged: Healthy Aging

The Waterloo Region’s Connector

In Canada, Kitchener-Waterloo is often described as the Silicon Valley of the North as an incubator for technology. Despite the accolades, we operate within a fragmented health tech siloed ecosystem. Waterloo Region has many incredible incubators, entrepreneurs, research bodies, and healthcare systems. Yet, inefficient communication leads to duplication and missed opportunities for growth.

Our vision for Hacking Health Waterloo is to be the recognized connector for health tech innovation and improvement in the Region. We facilitate or enable conversations. We endeavour to create a bridge and conduit for more than 1,000 members to seek help and explore the unmet needs in health.

Our vision is to be the recognized connector for health tech innovation and improvement in the Region.

 

Kitchener-Waterloo is bustling with health tech-related conferences and Hackathons. Through 2018, these included Hack4Health 4.0 at St Paul’s Greenhouse, Waterloo MedTech conference and an AGE-WELL workshop on technology solutions to social isolation in older adults. May’s True North conference at Lot42 attracted more than 2,000 delegates considering Tech for good. Transformative innovation starts by connecting technology creators, healthcare professionals, and health consumers across the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (WWLHIN).

Acting as a regional connector extends behind the geographic boundaries to plug the local community into the broader Ontario and Canadian health tech ecosystem. To that end, the Hacking Health Waterloo members have participated in the Hacking Health Ottawa HIP613, Hacking Health Toronto Ideathon, and new Hacking Health YGK chapter (Kingston, ON).

We can learn from each other through the Hacking Health network.

We have work ahead of us to engage more clinicians and engage patients to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. We can learn from each other through the Hacking Health network. There are few situations that one of the other chapters have not previously encountered.

It has never been easier to start a business says HubSpot, while at the same time acknowledging that scaling a business is becoming harder than ever. Anthony Lacereva notes that Canada is possibly the best place to start a business and the hardest place to grow one. An exemplary illustration is the HHOttawa HIP613.

In 2019, Hacking Health Waterloo has collaborated with the Regional Innovation Centre, Communitech, for a hackathon in conjunction with True North. This event has engaged local health players while inviting partners from across Ontario. The theme was focused on Aging, Social Isolation, and Health. More details about this dual-city hackathon will be shared in a future post.

Our hackathons, therefore, must not just create the best ideas but provide a journey to scale profitable growth.

 

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About the author: John Gregory is Partner Lead of the Hacking Health Waterloo chapter and Head of Global Growth at the Hacking Health Foundation.

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Delphine DavanThe Waterloo Region’s Connector
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Age-Well – HH Design Workshop

 

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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 finale evening in Winnipeg.

This event will take place in Halifax on May 13, and will required a small registration fee. This event is part of a series organized by AGE WELL and HACKING HEALTH, and will culminate with a grand finale evening in Winnipeg.
More information will be posted shortly but make sure to register and check out more about the Ideathon to learn about the whole process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hacking Health HalifaxAge-Well – HH Design Workshop
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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 finale evening in Winnipeg.

This event will take place in Montreal on March 3rd, and will require a small registration fee. This event is part of a series organized by AGE WELL and HACKING HEALTH, and will culminate with a grand finale evening in Winnipeg.
More information will be posted shortly but make sure to register and check out more about the Ideathon to learn about the whole process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hacking Health MontrealAge-Well – HH Design Workshop
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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 registration fee. This event is part of a series organized by AGE WELL and HACKING HEALTH, and will culminate with a grand finale evening in Winnipeg.
More information will be posted shortly but make sure to register and check out more about the Ideathon to learn about the whole process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hacking Health TorontoAge-Well – HH Design Workshop
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HH Groningen Lecture – Theme: Healthy Ageing

  • By Govert Buijs
  • Exclusive for (potential) participants (especially developers, creatives and entrepreneurs)
  • 18th of May, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, UMCG

Are you (thinking about) participating in HH_Groningen? Cool! Do you have an interest in improving healthcare? Even better! But do you really know what Healthy Ageing is all about? During this lecture Govert Buijs (RUG) will explain everything you need to know about the theme!

Interested? Click “register now” and email your name, surname and if you are already registered as a participant for the Hacking Health weekend.
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Hacking Health – Edmonton hackathon

 

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 daily living assistance, and ICT applications for screening, assessment and interventions to enhance mental health. HHYEG 2016 has adopted the AGE-WELL theme for the hackathon as it perfectly aligns with the objective of Hacking Health: to bring innovation to healthcare and health technology

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