Avicenna: Health Hack

MIT HACKING MEDICINE IS SETTING FOOT IN THE NETHERLANDS AGAIN! GRAB THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS UNIQUE EVENT

For a third time, the Avicenna: Health Hack is organized in the Netherlands! Due to the successes of past years the Avicenna: Health Hack committee and MIT Hacking Medicine have joined forces again to ensure you of a first-class event. During the hackathon, hundred participants from different areas of expertise will design and create innovative solutions for health care-related challenges. By combining the expertise of students, patients, health professionals and IT-professionals, this hackathon will stimulate novel ideas that will generate impulses towards healthcare innovation.

Will you accept the challenge to take on innovation in healthcare? If so, we are happy to welcome you at the Avicenna: Health Hack on 15-16 February 2020!

HACKATHON – Despite the fact that a hackathon for ICT-professionals may be a familiar concept, it is still relatively new within the healthcare sector. In a nutshell, a hackathon is an interdisciplinary event where participants from different areas of expertise collaborate in teams to find innovative solutions to healthcare related challenges under expert supervision in the course of a full weekend. During the hackathon, participants aim to develop the best ideas for actual products or prototypes in order to make a big difference for patients as well as healthcare professionals around the globe. The event also offers the opportunity for extensive networking: connecting with people from other areas of expertise can drive surprising collaborations.

THEME – The theme of the third edition of our hackathon in 2020 will be ‘Ageing’.
It is a broad and currently a very discussed theme. We purposely chose for a broad theme like “ageing” to stimulate you to come up with cases and challenges you have experienced on the work floor or in other situations.

PARTICIPANTS – Every healthcare fanatic is welcome to participate in the hackathon, whether you are an IT-professional, health professional, student, policy maker, entrepreneur, consultant, patient or designer. The price to participate for students is €25 and for professionals €50. The price is for the whole event, which includes drinks, snacks, 2x lunch and 1x dinner

LOCATION – The hackathon will take place in the building of the ‘Hoge school Utrecht’, Padualaan 99, The Netherlands.

PRIZES – At the end of the event, the jury will award prizes to the best teams that will have the chance to further develop their prototype under guidance of experts and can bring their product to the market.

PARTNERS & VOLUNTEERS – We are always looking for partnerships and individuals that would like to help organize this event. Interested? Please contact us through the contact-form at the bottom of our webpage.

We see you there!

Experts

Tommie Niessen

Speaker

Geriatric Nurse, Motivational Speaker and Writer

Hans de Jong

Speaker

President Philips Nederland

Ine van Hest

Judge

Director Agis Innovation Fund Health Insurers

Ton de Boer

Judge

President CBG and Professor Pharmacotherapy

Geert Lefeber

Judge

Geriatric Doctor UMCU

Judith Smit

Judge

Managing Partner FFUND

Janneke Bootsma

Coach

Consultant Health Care & ICT - Berenschot

Lisa Fransen

Coach

Junior Consultant Health Care - Berenschot

Bas Peeters

Coach

Senior Consultant Health Care - Berenschot

Mark de Lange

Coach & Workshop

CEO - Vital Innovators

Adri Kraa

Coach & Workshop

Partner - Vital Innovators

Angel Huang

Coach

Researcher - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julia Situ

Coach

Researcher - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yara Komaiha

Coach

Researcher - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stefan Braam

Workshop

Startup Incubator Lead - UtrechtInc

Laura Mrabet

Ambassador

Business Development Life Sciences - Utrecht Science Park

Day one

Program day 1

08:00 Registration (& Coffee)

08:30 Opening

09:00 Speaker - Tommie Niessen

09:30 Case pitching

10:30 Team formation

11:45 Lunch

12.40 Speaker - Hans de Jong

13:15 Hack it!

17:15 Workshop 1: Social return on investment (Vital Innovators)

17:15 Workshop 2: From prototype to product (UtrechtInc)

18:00 Dinner

19:00 Special events

19:00 Hack it!

22:00 Rounding off day 1

Day two

Program day 2

08:00 Welcome back (& Coffee)

08:40 Speaker - To be announced

09:15 Hack it!

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Hack it!

15:00 Pitch presentations

17:00 Drinks!

17:15 Announcement winners

Gold partners

Silver partners

Bronze partners

Avicenna

We are 7 ambitious students from different universities who came together to contribute to the improvement of health care. During our studies we realized that, within the medical field, there are numerous problems that need a technical solution. Unfortunately, IT normally is like a black box for healthcare professionals. Hospitals on the other hand are a complex and difficult world to enter for non-clinical professionals. During the hackathon we aim to build bridges between both groups to come up with innovations where patients benefit from. We hope that the hackathon enables our participants to forge new connections and collaborations that will last for a long time.

We hope to see you on our hackathon!

Board members:

From left to right,
Sander de Wijs, VU Amsterdam, MPA (Treasurer)
Sofie Cuijpers, VU Amsterdam, MPA (Acquisition)
Charlotte Smits, VU Amsterdam, MPA (President)
Maarten Korving, VU Amsterdam, MPA (Acquisition)
Marjet Klein Avink (MSC), Utrecht University, Drug Innovation (Secretary)
Nikkie Hosseinnia, Utrecht University, Pharmacy (Promotion)
Simone Dam, Utrecht University, Pharmacy (Logistics)

Our Mission? Hack healthcare. Break it down, build it up, make it better.

With this vision, MIT Hacking Medicine – established within the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston – has organized numerous healthcare hackathons worldwide. This non-profit organisation unites innovative data, ideas and techniques within a hackathon to create a pressure cooker environment for health care innovation. In the past, this has resulted in highly successful ideas, like an app that guides a doctor in the process of making an ultrasound to optimize the position of the transducer. By organizing hackathon with over 500 participants, the members of MIT Hacking Medicine are perfect candidates to guide our participants through the process of innovation.

Registration

FAQ

Am I a suitable candidate to participate in the Avicenna: Health Hack?

Yes! We think it is very important that the participating teams are as diverse as possible, so we stimulate everyone to sign up. To name a few, we welcome ICT and business professionals, but also doctors, patients, scientists, students, and those with creative mindsets. Even the know-how of programming for example is not required!

Do I need to pay a fee in order to participate?

To be able to meet the expenses for this event, we ask all participants to contribute by buying a ticket; 50euros for professionals and 25euros (50% discount) for students. You will be further notified about this soon after you’ve signed up.

I do not have a specific case in mind to tackle, is that a problem?

No, that is not a problem. Not all participants have to bring in a case and subsequently hack this during the event, as it is possible to join another team.

Is it required to participate the entire weekend?

Yes, you will have to attend during the course of the whole weekend, as it is already a relatively short period of time to work on a case.

Is it possible to sign up together with other people?

Yes! Although prior experience has shown that newly formed teams come up with more innovative ideas, it is possible to sign up in pairs or groups. Please inform the organization about this.

Will meals be catered?

Yes! All meals (2x lunch, 1x dinner) and snacks will be taken care of. If you have specific dietary needs, please inform the organization about this well in advance.

In what ways can I contribute to the Avicenna: Health Hack?

You are able to contribute in multiple ways during the event. You can be one of our participants, but you could also be a volunteer, partner, speaker, or team coach for example. Interested? Please contact us.