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by Leo Exter
February 15, 2024 - 16:14

BORN AT HACK HEALTHCARE

Real projects that came out of previous hackathons.

 

Hack Healthcare is the annual 2-day event at which innovators from across the entire healthcare ecosystem solve concrete patient and industry problems, explore new business possibilities, and lay foundations for future collaborations.
It’s an open, public sandbox that stimulates creativity and establishes connections between isolated silos of healthcare.

 

Real projects that came out of Hack Healthcare

The Hack Healthcare event serves as a catalyst for technology adoption in the healthcare sector. Not only because it creates a safe space for testing and implementing new ideas in digital health transformation, but also because it forges connections among stakeholders who were previously scattered, developing new relationships and collaboration opportunities. 

Hack Healthcare creates a unique environment that enables these conversations and collaborations to take place, and brings together the “coalition of the doing” from across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
Leo Exter, CEO of Hack Belgium Labs.

Through purposeful co-creation experiences, the entire ecosystem can focus on real-world problems and concrete solutions. 

🤝 Here are the participants’ stories who turned their Hack Healthcare ideas into reality.

 
Born at Hack Healthcare 2023

In 2023, over 160 people gathered for the third edition to deliver fresh insights, novel business models and new digital tools. Projects from 2023 edition will be unveiled at the Hack Healthcare Meet-up that will take place on February 20th.

If you want to take part in this event, sign up here!

 

Born at Hack Healthcare 2021
  • The Clinical Trial Portal – with Mitchell Silva, Esperity-Patient Centrics founder

The Clinical Trial Portal is a platform that empowers patients to search for clinical trials in an understandable way and in their local language, such as Dutch, French, or English, in an understandable manner. 

Often, clinical trial information is only available in complex English terminology, and this tool aims to make it accessible and comprehensible. 

Patients can visit clinicaltrials.be, search using keywords like “breast cancer with a certain mutation” in Brussels, and view ongoing trials. If interested, they can discuss with their physician or contact us for assistance in navigating the system and connecting with the right person. 

The next steps for the Clinical Trial Portal include enhancing access points for hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and patient organizations. They are also working on integrating artificial intelligence to classify and map the right trials and determine patient eligibility through inclusion/exclusion criteria. 

 

How did Clinical Trial Portal become a reality?

What contributed to make the Clinical Trial Portal a success was a feasibility study, conducted prior to full development, which helped identify challenges and requirements, including legal and regulatory considerations. 

Also, Hack Healthcare played a crucial role in validating assumptions and networking with stakeholders, providing insights into the development process. Challenges encountered primarily revolved around regulatory compliance, necessitating collaboration with legal experts to ensure adherence to legislation. 

“One thing that participants of Hack Healthcare should bring is an open mind. Mingle with all the participants because you have everyone together in one room, and you have amazing energy. So, be open and really just participate. Play the game”.

Mitchell Silva

More information at: http://clinicaltrial.be

Born at Hack Healthcare 2021
  • My Nursing Angel – with Zilfi Balci, founder of My Nursing Angel

My Nursing Angel is a monitoring app for patients undergoing oncology treatment, with the management of side effects.
As a nurse herself, Zilfi recognized the need for a patient-centric app that could bridge the communication gap between patients and their nurse coordinators, while also managing crucial medication schemes.

The web dashboard, co-constructed with nurses, is nearing completion, and the prototype of the smartphone app for patients is currently in development, with plans for validation by partner patients.

At Hack Healthcare, Zilfi had the opportunity to engage with partners, a pivotal experience that led to the realization that her envisioned idea was feasible and realistic. This feedback proved invaluable, affirming the viability of her project.

“I realized that the ecosystem was really very large, and I didn’t realize it when I was alone thinking, as they say, in my own little world. Being able to talk to different people precisely allowed me to see that there was a very important panel in terms of e-health”.

“My recommendations for people who would want to or are still hesitating to come and register for this year’s hackathon would be to come with an open mind. You will experience 48 hours of intensive meeting with people from all backgrounds, from all disciplines. You will be able to test ideas and act in groups you may not have thought of at all, perhaps, at any given moment, contribute your part”.

Zilfi Balci

More information at: https://mynursingangel.com/

Born at Hack Healthcare 2022
  • The Patient Journey Viewer – with Mitchell Silva, Esperity-Patient Centrics founder

While working with patients, Esperity Patient Centrics really noticed that a lot of patients feel completely lost in their disease trajectory. It often takes years before they get the right diagnosis, and it can take years before they actually end up in the right treatment. This was the main motivation to develop a tangible solution to speed up the whole process and really help patients to go to the right physicians, to ask the right questions, and at the end, also hoping, of course, that they end up with the right treatment.

“After Hack Healthcare, we reached out to patients, to hospitals, to really dive deeper into how we go from this concept into really tangible solutions dedicated to specific disease areas, because it’s only in the specifics that you get clarity on what you want to solve and also how you can solve it”.
Mitchell Silva

The Patient Journey Viewer was validated in three different disease areas, and ready to be implemented in several hospitals.

Hack Healthcare was the place where the validation took place and gave the team the insights and feedback they needed for product development and deployment.

The Patient Journey Viewer is a powerful tool that enables you to track and visualize the most critical healthcare events that document your medical journey. By logging your appointments, examinations, diagnoses, and medications, you can get a comprehensive overview of your medical evolution in one easy-to-use interface. This tool can help simplify consultations with healthcare professionals by providing a summary of your patient journey based on the events you have reported in your timeline. Additionally, it can help you understand how your condition impacts your quality of life. You can explore patient-friendly medical guidelines to facilitate conversations with your physician and gain insights into potential treatment options.

“The one thing that I really recommend participants of Hack Healthcare to do is to manage to use your energy, to use your network, reach out to everyone you know because it’s only by working together, by being extremely motivated and by being in peak state that you will achieve amazing results”. Mitchel Silva

More information at: https://esperity.com/

 

👉 3 tips on leveraging Hack Healthcare

 

  1. First of all, something on a personal level: the energy, the motivation to be part of an amazing team, and this is really at the end the drive to keep on going, because it’s only if you have this burning desire and passion that you’ll actually be able to continue and do what you have to do to deliver a solution.
  2. The second point is actually the opportunity to validate assumptions, so we have people all together in one room, different specialties, different experts, so it’s a very efficient way of working, basically.
  3. The third point is that it’s also an opportunity to move from concept to actual something tangible because at the end, ideas are nice, but you can’t do anything with it if you don’t make them tangible, and this is really what you can expect during Hack Healthcare.

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