THE CHALLENGE

Have you ever wanted to innovate in the health data sandbox? Welcome to the Future of Healthcare Hackathon where we are paving the way with solutions to address some of the biggest challenges in healthcare: Privacy, Public Health, and Patient Care.

Our goal is to bring talent from tech and healthcare backgrounds to solve challenges facing our healthcare system today. We want to use our skills to hack for good!

Your projects will be judged by experts in Healthcare from Microsoft, Broad Institute, prior US Secretary of the VA, and more!

We will have unique datasets to leverage during the event: price transparency data from Turquoise, synthetic datasets from Syntegra, and a variety of data related to provider/payer information sharing provided by Datavant.

Winners can bring their projects to life by leveraging our prize pool: travel to Washington D.C. and present at the annual Future of Health Data Summit (on 9/15), a conference whose other presenters will include Former and Current Heads of the FDA, Former U.S. Secretary of the VA, Chief Data Officer of Broad institute, Federal CIO and ~250 high profile leaders in healthcare, tech, policy, and press in attendance, access to the Datavant platform, a variety of cash prizes, and more!

WHEN

Monday, August 8th: Sign-ups begin, teams are formed, brainstorming starts!
Thursday, September 8th: Hackathon formally kicks off with keynote speakers, review of tracks, policies, datasets, and sub-prompts.
Friday-Saturday, September 9-10th: Hack time! Mentors from the health and tech space are available for support to coach/guide your hackathon project.
Sunday, September 11th: Final projects must be submitted, a closing ceremony will be held.
Tuesday, September 13th: Winners are announced!

Requirements

WHAT TO BUILD

We invite you to use your creativity, innovation and technical capabilities to develop solutions to one of the challenges facing the healthcare system. What you build is up to you (app, website, other). All we ask is that you bring innovative ideas to the table!

There are three (3) tracks for you to participate in:

Privacy: Build a prototype or app with patient privacy at the forefront of the solution.
Public Health: Interrogate the data, identify a problem and solve a public health issue facing the nation.
Improving Patient Care: Build a prototype or app to improve patient care in 1 of 3 ways: patient access/knowledge, quality of care, or price.

Visit our resources section to review additional prompt details and datasets.

We are looking for a novel idea paired with strong technical execution and a compelling demo to communicate why your solution is unique!

HOW TO SUBMIT IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZES

Provide a URL to your GitHub or GitLab code repository upon submission (Code can be private during the hacking period but must be made public upon submission on 9/11)
Include a video (~3 minutes) that demonstrates your project, the problem you are solving, the app/solution in action (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook Video and made public). Video should include an explanation of how this solution solves an issue in healthcare.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$50,000 in prizes

Grand prize

• $25,000 in USD
• Spotlight project at Future of Health Data Summit by Datavant where fellow co-presenters will include current and former Heads of the FDA, Former U.S. Secretary of the VA, Chief Data Officer of Broad institute, Federal CIO, and other A-listers from healthcare and policy!
• 1 year of access to Datavant platform with platform fees waived
• Facilitation of 3 introductions to data sources via the Datavant platform
• Invite to attend Future of Health Data Summit (limited to 5 team members)
• Meet and greet w/ Travis (Co-founder of Datavant)
• Meet and Greet w/ Aneesh Kulkarni, Head of Engineering, and Shannon West, CIO and former CTO of CMS
• Meet and greet with judges
• Featured on Datavant website and tech blog

Runner up

• $9,000 in USD
• 1 year of access to Datavant platform with platform fees waived
• Facilitation of 3 introductions to data sources via the Datavant platform
• Featured on Datavant website and tech blog

Top Privacy App

• $5,000 in USD
• Featured on Datavant website and tech blog

Top Public Health App

• $5,000 in USD
• Featured on Datavant website and tech blog

Top Patient Care App

• $5,000 in USD
• Featured on Datavant website and tech blog

Crowd Favorite

• $1000 in USD for crowd favorite solution!

Judges

David Shulkin
Former U.S. Secretary of the VA

Clare Bernard
Senior Director, Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute

Niall Brennan
Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer at Clarify

Michelle Werr
Managing Director at HealthScape Advisors

Dr. Greg Hess
Prior CMO at Symphony, IMS health, SDI, and practicing physician

Amy Gleason
Chief Product Officer at Russel Street Ventures, former USDS

Tracy Picon
Director for Accessibility, Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft

Dr. Kathleen McGrow, DNP
Chief Nursing Information Officer at Microsoft

Dr. Clifford Goldsmith
Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft

Kevin Dolan
US Chief Alliance Officer at Microsoft

Jeff Fattic
Healthcare App Innovation at Microsoft

Javier Tordable
Technical Director for CTO office at Google

Judging Criteria

20%: Potential Impact
Impact: How big of an impact could the project have on the future of healthcare (number of people impacted, lives improved)? Scalability: Will the solution be around in 5 years?
20%: Quality of the Idea
Creative: How creative and unique is the project? Innovative: how innovative is the project?
20%: Technological Implementation
Does the interaction with the app/prototype demonstrate quality software development?
20%: Design
Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out for the intended user?
20%: Communication
Was the solution logically organized and did the team effectively communicate the problem and its solution?