A NEW KIND OF OPEN INNOVATION EVENT THAT HELPS HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM SOLVE TOUGH TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS CHALLENGES TOGETHER

LET’S TALK and figure out together how your company should take part in our Hack Healthcare event!

WHY

Organizations across the Healthcare industry feel the need to deliver better healthcare outcomes and to relieve pressure on limited resources. In the context of static business models and substantial regulatory burden, a new level of creativity and collaboration is necessary to successfully innovate, and to unlock the promise of (digital) technologies.

ABOUT

Hack Healthcare is an Open Innovation event aimed at creating ingenious, unorthodox solutions for the Healthcare industry. Its purpose is to help you to come up with new ideas, to explore new business models and new technologies, and to immediately test these ideas with your fellow participants. You’ll also forge new collaborations to help you start implementing your ideas the day after the event.

THEMES OF

HACK HEALTHCARE 2023 EDITION

Screening & Prevention

Accelerate targeted screening and increase effectiveness of prevention activities

Lung cancer screening, hosted by MSD
How might we identify existing sources of smoking history data for the estimated 15% of Belgians who are smokers or former smokers, aggregate (in full respect of patients’ rights) and enrich this data, evaluate the need for additional touchpoints for collecting it, and make it actionable for screening purposes by health authorities, as well as to motivate smokers and former smokers to undergo screening?
Wellness for women entering menopause, hosted by Helan
How might we bundle existing and new knowledge and services to deliver a holistic personalised, scientifically sound wellness program for women entering menopause, deliver it through a single platform, monitor its effectiveness, and ensure its financial sustainability?

Enhancing Patient Experience

Empower patients for greater autonomy through better knowledge and enhanced remote care.

Onboarding for endocrine therapy, hosted by Roche
How might we design and roll out a personalised onboarding process for endocrine therapy that would help women fully understand the benefits and the side effects of the treatment, assess their physical and mental readiness, and – with support of the HCPs – take the necessary steps to prepare for and successfully start endocrine therapy?
New, complementary, sources of support for advanced breast cancer patients, hosted by Novartis
How might we create a single point of contact for patients and onconurses that can streamline access to a comprehensive overview of different kinds of support for advanced breast cancer patients, personalized to each patient’s journey, stage of treatment, level of understanding, and education, and functioning as an orchestrator of support to ensure patients do not lose time and feel empowered when seeking information or support?
Caring for partners of advanced breast cancer patients, hosted by Novartis
How might we create a single, comprehensive and personalised source of information for partners (60-75 y.o.) of advanced breast cancer patients to empower them to access simplified, clear explanations about the disease, treatment, and other aspects, as well as to offer a holistic overview of available tools and resources from the beginning and throughout the caregiving process so they can effectively support their loved ones while maintaining their own well-being and quality of life?

Secondary use of healthcare data

Improve access to clinical and non-clinical healthcare data for research, policy, and other purposes

Catalog of healthcare data, hosted by the Belgian Health Data Agency
How might we help these data-hungry patients get an overview of all sources of their own health data by creating a structured national health data catalog, that could also be used as the first step towards the European Health Data Space?
Growing capacity for ophthalmological treatments, hosted by Roche
How might we assemble a realistic picture of current and future demand for ophthalmological treatments, maximise current capacity, and start growing the treatment capacity to meet future demand?
Clear value of data, hosted by EASO
How might we leverage hospital electronic medical records to effectively document the data gathered for each individual obesity patient, help them understand how to use the data to guide, or to better follow, their own journey, and to trigger them to share their data for the benefit of others?
Understanding value-based health outcomes, hosted by Esperity
How might we put in place a scalable process for capturing quality of life data across multiple therapeutic areas, link them to clinical outcomes, and provide policymakers with a more comprehensive picture of effectiveness of new technology, interventions or medicines, while creating value for other stakeholders, starting with the patient?

Humanising hospital operations

Give doctors and nurses back the time to work with the patients – as well as to optimise patient experience – by outsourcing administrative and other repetitive tasks to AI and ML tools

Connecting first and second lines of care, hosted by InterSystems
How might we enable home care organisations’ Electronic Healthcare Record systems to exchange a broad range of data (status updates, care requests, test results, etc.) with hospital and general practitioners’ Electronic Healthcare Record systems in both directions?
Capturing and Using Patient Evaluations, hosted by InterSystems
How might we systematically capture patient evaluations of treatments and treatment results, link these evaluations to treatment data recorded by hospitals, and leverage the combined results for improving quality of care?
Reviewing the data collection process, hosted by Clinique St. Jean & Cliniques de l’Europe
How might we review the data collection, sharing and output processes to better adapt them to the nurses’ workflows, to minimise nurses’ time lost to data entry and verification, and ensure high-quality, correctly structured data?

HERE’S HOW

ALL OF OUR HACK EVENTS WORK

Day 1

Deep dives in the problems and opportunities delivered by a cross- functional team of experts
Two rounds of ideation and networking
Technology briefings: case studies of technology implementations from Belgium and abroad
Team formation and networking sessions
Idea stretching and validation with experts and users

Day 2

Solution mapping, elaboration and validation with experts & prosumers
Presentations to peers and panelists
Reception & networking

SOLVING PROBLEMS AS AN ECOSYSTEM

Some problems are just too large for any one company to solve. They require an entirely new way for stakeholders to interact, a new business model, or a completely different set of technologies. The hardest ones will require combined resources of several companies.

Others can be solved just by having an open conversation between the stakeholders, or by applying a fresh perspective to old problems.

That’s why we make sure that the entire healthcare ecosystem is represented at Hack Healthcare, that the atmosphere of the event supports open and frank conversations, as well as creates the trust necessary to build the collaborations necessary to solve the most pressing issues in Healthcare.

HOW IS THE CONTENT OF HACK HEALTHCARE CREATED?

Four upcoming Ecosystem Workshops (one per theme) are your fisrt opportunity to learn more about the Themes and the Challenges of Hack Healthcare, to have an impact on the content of the event, and of course to start building new connections with other future participants.

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Who should take part?

Hack Healthcare is open to participants from across the entire healthcare ecosystem: product managers, IT and operations specialists, business developers and other hands-on professionals from across the healthcare industry. Front-line staff, middle management and senior leaders are all welcome!