Hackathon Prizes

The BWH Innovation Hub (iHub) will harness the power of our community’s inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. By providing support, connections, business analytics, resources, space, and tools to bring ideas from creation to commercialization, the iHub will unleash our innovators’ potential to reinvent healthcare.

The BWH iHub prize includes:

• Presentation and feedback on product at the iHub core committee's October meeting.
• A review on usability from BWH experts.
• An invitation to present at the CareFWD 2013 conference in Boston on October 1.
• A financial award of $1,000

In addition, the BWH iHub will provide awardees with an opportunity to bring their project into the iHub as an innovation pipeline project which may lead to commercialization or dissemination. This opportunity is subject to the execution of a mutually acceptable collaborative agreement.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health started and run

by Atul Gawande, MD.  As a joint venture of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, Ariadne Labs was created in the fall of 2012 to focus on the discovery of ways to transform the effectiveness and appropriateness of care at the most dangerous and costly moments in people’s lives—from childbirth to care at the end of life.

• The Ariadne Labs Prize will be awarded to the team with a simple innovation that has the ability to have a large scale impact nationally or globally.
• The team will get a chance to present their solution to Ariadne Labs leadership for a possible Spark grant of up to $100,000 (and free coffee) for further development of the innovation.

Hacking healthcare since 2011, H@cking Medicine’s mission is to create an ecosystem at MIT and host the Boston medical community and beyond to teach entrepreneurs and clinicians the skills necessary to launch disruptive healthcare businesses.

The H@cking Medicine Prize will include:

• Lunch with Zen Chu, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
• Profile of winning team in the HM newsletter, 1000-person distribution list.
• Access to HM network and meeting with the HM executive team to discuss startup potential.

The Harvard innovation lab is a new and innovative initiative that fosters team-based and entrepreneurial activities to deepen interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston community. The Harvard i-lab Prize includes:

• An invitation to the team to attend the resident-only Health and Sciences meet-ups and expert roundtables during the fall semester.
• A $100 Amazon Web Services credit code for each team member.

The STRATUS (Simulation, Training, Research and Technology Utilization System) Center for Medical Simulation, employing simulation technology, medical education, teamwork development, along with clinical education and research, is dedicated to improving the quality and delivery of healthcare for providers at all levels.

The STRATUS Center prize includes:

• Eight hours of time in the simulation center (a mock-clinical setting) for a team to trial or test their new product or design.
• Recording the session so that the team can use it as data or demonstrations at a later date.

*Prizes may be subject to change.