The Challenge

Want to shape the future and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today? Interested in digital health as a means of empowering people to improve their own health? Wish you had a streamlined way to pilot your ideas in a real hospital setting?

Participate in the 2015 Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Hackathon!

The BWH Hackathon in collaboration with Brigham Innovation Hub (iHub) and MIT Hacking Medicine will bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today. This year, our 3^rd annual Hackathon, focused on Digital Health, will bring together a diverse, multidisciplinary group to “pitch” problems impacting healthcare, develop solutions over a two-day period, and then present demos of solutions to a panel of judges for recognition and honors.

The event provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with experts in a variety of fields and novices with unbridled passion, pitch an idea for transforming a current health care process and then, together, ‘hack’ or devise a real solution. These solutions could be as straightforward as a wireframe sketch, or might require using materials to build a prototype, or reaching out to a clinician to ask a pressing question for a mobile app.

Whatever the process may be, the ultimate result could be the beginning of the next big health care transformation. End the weekend with a team, new connections, and prizes with potential access to iHub resources, and a hack on its first steps towards disrupting healthcare. Past teams at hackathons just like this have gone on to found companies, enter business plan competitions (MIT 100K), join an accelerator (Mass Challenge), and secure venture funding.