Hack Healthcare 2022

Hackathon
for healthcare innovators

 

Hack Healthcare is a transformative 2-day event where your organization can explore far-out ideas, connect with potential business partners, and draw inspiration from the collective knowledge of the entire healthcare ecosystem.

 

 

Radical experimentation
in a fast-evolving world

 

While digital transformation is navigating the healthcare ecosystem, innovators in pharma, hospitals, IT companies, and governments find themselves navigating the unknown.

In a volatile, uncertain, and complex world, Hack Healthcare is an open, public “sandbox” where innovators come together to shape the future. It brings the entire ecosystem together to accelerate paradigm shifts and to collaborate on real projects that will solve the most pressing issues in healthcare.

CHALLENGES OF

HACK HEALTHCARE 2024

Which are the priority areas of focus in the health sector?

For each edition of Hack Healthcare, we identify 4 broad themes together with our community. Event partners contribute concrete challenges to “hack” at the event, and our community validates and improves those challenges.

Check them out and see what exciting new ideas and potential connections have emerged for each theme:

Screening & Prevention

Main goal: Accelerate targeted screening and increase effectiveness of prevention activities

FINAL CHALLENGES

Optimising adult vaccination to ensure healthy longevity, hosted by GSK and MSD
How might we better support people in following up on their vaccinations, reminding them about upcoming vaccinations, informing them about the ideal calendar, reimbursement schemes, to better activate prevention due to vaccination at all ages?

Tracking Social isolation for improved healthcare outcomes, hosted by CHWAPI
How might we design, launch and maintain a tool used jointly by the entire healthcare and social support ecosystem to identify socially isolated individuals and monitor their levels of isolation? How might we consistently connect such individuals to the existing support ecosystem to ensure improved healthcare outcomes?

Training for early detection of lung cancer, hosted by SSMG
How might we reimagine trainings around screening and prevention issues for physicians, making these trainings more attractive to join and more effective? Specifically, focus on lung cancer screening and smoking cessation.

Enhancing Patient Experience

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

FINAL CHALLENGES

Diabetes: Care team knowledge flow in Ophthalmology, hosted by Roche
How might we ensure that all specialists in care teams working on complex diseases such as diabetes (specifically, retinologists) have a single channel for accessing and sharing information generated by all members of the care team (e.g. diabetologists, endocrinologists, specialised nurses, etc.)?

Supporting patients in remission (lymphoma), hosted by Roche
How might we put into place a process for long-term surveillance and follow up of patients in remission without needlessly worrying them about new dangers they face as lymphoma survivors?

Seamless and personalised mental health support for lung cancer patients across all treatment settings, hosted by Roche
How might we ensure ongoing, personalised mental health support for lung cancer patients—across hospitals or home settings—by integrating timely psychosocial interventions and emotional care throughout their treatment journey, ultimately improving their overall well-being and quality of life?

 

Real-world evidence and secondary use of healthcare data

Main goal: Improve access to clinical and non-clinical healthcare data for research, policy, and reimbursement.

FINAL CHALLENGES

Visually optimise decision support tools for medical professionals (PTRA), hosted by IMEC and VITO
How might we collect sufficient population-level data to enable deployment of personalised medicine and to assess quality of available data by tapping into the audiences – such as women in perimenopause – that are the most likely to share their data in exchange for preventive health insights and decision-making support?

Coping with (peri) menopause: Collecting and using data around menopause, hosted by Faqir Foundation
How might we enable women to collect and share with their HCPs a broad range of data around their menopause experience, contributing to a growing body of data and knowledge for primary and secondary use, including clinical data and patient-generated data such as medication use, personal observations, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and, patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), as well as data from consumer-grade devices?

Ecosystem collaboration for social impact

Main goal: Forget policy. Get cracking on real collaborative action.

FINAL CHALLENGES

Perimenopause literacy for effective conversations with HCPs, hosted by eHealth Venture
How might we enable women to have effective conversations with their HCPs in order to get the right treatment in the short term and to help their HCPs learn more about menopause in the long term?

Youth mental health: addressing school refusal, hosted by Hack Belgium Labs
How might we develop a national tool that would help parents of young patients quickly gauge the severity of their kids’ mental health issues, identify the care path in line with their needs (and the parents’ resources), and track progress? Could we start with a very specific issue – school refusal (décrochage scolaire / schoolweigering ) – and scale up the approach once there’s a viable solution?

Meet the Belgium Healthcare Ecosystem

Hack Healthcare 2024

**Wednesday, October 23** [8:00 AM – 6:00 PM]
**Thursday, October 24** [8:00 AM – 6:30 PM]

Location: Area 42 | Rue des Palais 46 | 1030 Bruxelles |

HOW HACK HEALTHCARE WORKS

Day 1

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

  • Challenge briefings
  • Two rounds of ideation
  • Team formation
  • Idea stretching and refining
  • Prototyping and validating with patients and other experts

Day 2

Thursday, October 24, 2024

  • More prototyping and validating with patients
  • Pitch review with coaches
  • Presenting solutions to peers and experts
  • Reception & networking

JOIN THE HEALTHCARE INNOVATORS COMMUNITY!

Hack Healthcare is open to participants from across the entire healthcare ecosystem: patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, 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!

If you want to envision the future of healthcare and experiment with new ideas, come innovate together with key players from across the healthcare ecosystem at Hack Healthcare.

ENTERPRISE TICKET

1450 euros

    If you are:

  • Global Pharma or Health Tech company
  • Insurance, telecom or other company with over 500 employees

SERVICE COMPANY TICKET

850 euros

    If you are:

  • Belgian technology services company with 50 to 500 employees

DISCOUNTED TICKET

490 euros

      If you are:

 

  • Start-up or Scale-up (young, growing company with fewer than 50 employes)
  • Non-medical staff at a hospital, home care organisation, or at a care home
  • Government or Mutuality
  • Research institution
  • Startup support organisation (incubator, industry cluster, etc.)

FREE TICKET

0 euros

      If you are:

 

  • Practicing healthcare professional (doctor, nurse, etc.)
  • Individual patient, caregiver to a patient, or a Patient organization team member

Results

In 2023, over 160 people gathered for the third edition to share fresh insights, to create novel business models and new digital tools.

Born at Hack Healthcare

Discover what Hack Healthcare offers to you and learn about the projects that came
out of the event.

Here are four stories of the participants who turned their Hack Healthcare ideas into
reality.

CORE PARTNERS

 

PARTNERS

GSK

KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS

imec
humix
FAQIR Foundation
CHwapi
The King Baudouin Foundation
Medvia
CHwapi
King Baudouin Foundation

Experts

The humans behind Hack Healthcare.

Mark Bollen

WANT TO ORGANISE A HACKATHON? TALK TO OUR FOUNDER, LEO.

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