Jugaadathon: India's first open house Healthcare Hackathon
A guest post by Global Healthcare.
Glocal Healthcare is pleased to announce Hack Healthcare - Jugaadathon, a unique effort to bring together different sections of society to help address problems related to everyday health issues.
Jugaadathon is an event where innovators will collaborate intensively over a short period of time to create usable prototypes centered around healthcare and build entrepreneurial capacity. The event will provide a platform for clinicians, engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and end-users to come together to advance knowledge-sharing across disciplines and catalyze better innovations for resource-constrained settings.
Multi dimensional teams will be formed at the event comprising of participants from different backgrounds. Each participant will bring their knowledge and expertise to the table to help develop an all round solution to the problem. Clinicians will use their medical background to clearly understand the problem at hand. They will provide the other team members all the information they need to engineer a solution to the problem. Engineers will use their knowledge of electronics, mechanics and programming to help implement ideas into a physical working prototype. Product Designers will bring their expertise of human factors in design and help develop a more finished product. CAD drawings and visual representations will go a long way in strengthening the idea pitch. Entrepreneurs and end users will understand the market and develop an overall platform to sell their product.
Problem statements for the event can be found at http://jugaadathon.com/problems.html. We are focusing on three key areas of healthcare namely Maternal and child health, Emergency and Critical care, and Mobile Health.
The event, scheduled on 25th and 26th January, 2014, is expected to attract over 100 participants from 18 schools + organizations. Participants will be engaged in 36 hours of straight hacking to design and build solutions for healthcare problems that we will set before them. With us will be faculty, researchers and students from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as Indian entrepreneurs from tech and healthcare, who will act as mentors & facilitators throughout this fun & crazy weekend.
We are confident that this event will not only provide a memorable experience to all involved but also serve as a stepping stone for future startups. And of course, there are prizes worth Rs. 50,000 to be won!
There are no eligibility requirements for this one-of-a-kind event, so apply today itself! (Apply Now: http://jugaadathon.com/apply.html)
Also, people are more than welcome to come and watch the hacking in progress.
