"MIT Hacking Medicine is much in demand as hospitals look for new ways
to solve long-standing problems with a diverse group of brainstormers
keen to share ideas. A few weeks ago it hosted a session at the BIO
conference and even as I caught up with co-director Andrea Ippolito
after her keynote at CONVERGE, she is gearing up for a business trip to
India and has a long list of hackathons lined up this fall.
I’ll bet she wishes she could clone herself. Oddly enough, the organization is moving in that direction.
It is working on a website that would package its hacking medicine
model to make it available to a wider audience. Although it typically
works with hospitals, it has been approached by companies, institutions
and organizations such as AARP, big pharma, medical device companies and
surgical groups.
“I’ve gotten such a tremendous amount out of running medical
hackathons, but we want this medical hackathon model to scale and to be
sustainable,” said Ippolito.
This fall, the organization has an exciting schedule advancing its
hacking medicine model. Its calendar includes a collaboration with the
Clinton Foundation on a hackathon for women’s health. It will be limited
to female participants who are engineers, entrepreneurs, clinicians and
designers to promote STEM.
A critical care data hackathon at Beth Israel Deaconess will bring
together data scientists and clinicians to analyze de-identified data on
ICU patients pulled from electronic medical records by the hospital
that could lead to new practice guidelines.
It has a second hackathon with Boston Children’s Hospital to develop
innovative ideas in the pediatric space. It’s also doing a Shark Tank
challenge at Brigham Women’s Hospital that will look at ways to improve
the in-patient experience as its theme.
Emergency department physicians are embracing the hackathon trend,
too. MIT Hacking Medicine is doing a hackathon in Chicago with the
American College of Emergency Physicians and Health 2.0.
Other projects it is eyeing include a medical hackathon for pain points in behavioral health and collaborations with surgeons."
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