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MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
Teams spent
weekend developing
solutions to global
healthcare problems
By ALEX COTT
For the Daily
The first annual Ann Arbor
Health
Hackathon
brought
together
medical
professionals,
software
engineers,
public
health workers among others to
brainstorm solutions to global
healthcare problems from Friday
to Saturday in Palmer Commons.
The “hackathon” included 24
hours of health-related “hacking,”
which involved teams pitching
ideas
and
creating
prototypes
for solutions to health problems.
The event focused on preventing
disease in underserved areas of the
developing world.
The hackathon was created
and operated by Beatrix Balogh, a
research associate for the William
Davidson Institute, an independent
non-profit that provides emerging
market solutions; Britt Johnson,
a consultant at Integral Chain;
Diane
Bouis,
the
innovation
programs director at The Inovo
Group, an innovation consulting
firm; and Neelima Ramaraju, the
global health applications director
at LLamasoft, a supply chain
management software company.
Though
there
are
other
hackathons in Ann Arbor, the
four co-founders wanted to create
something different to engage a
more diverse crowd.
“We wanted it to be free and
available
to
the
community,”
Johnson
said.
“Many
other
hackathons are focused on the
University, and coming in as a
working professional, it’s cool to
see all of the people working in
startups in health and software.
There’s just such a variety.”
The
co-founders
brought
together their past experiences
to create a health hackathon that
encompassed the most successful
practices from other events.
“I participated in hackathons
at MIT in Boston and again in
Cleveland,” Johnson said. “I just
loved how it brought so many
different experts together in one
room at one table that generally
don’t have the chance to meet and
talk. I liked the idea of starting
with a problem and thinking
through a solution with a group of
people.”
Johnson added that sometimes
real products have developed
from hackathons.
Johnson said organizers had
two goals: uncovering new ideas
and uniting the community.
“Our goals are two-fold: to
bring innovative thought and
new design and solutions into
a space where there have been
a lot of traditions,” Johnson
said. “The second is more local:
bringing those diverse parts of
our community together to talk
and work on it and get to know
each other.”
The
event
commenced
Friday evening for participants
to meet and exchange ideas.
Saturday morning began with
three keynote speakers — Eden
Wells, Mark Wilson, and Hamid
Ghanbari — who discussed how
multifaceted nature of global
health issues.
“(Ghanbari) was my favorite,”
rising LSA senior Jenny Tou, a
participant in the hackathon,
said. “He talked about global
health and how multidimensional
it is. Sometimes the problems
intertwine so if you solve one, then
you solve others as well.”
Once the hacking began, 91
participants
were
faced
with
the challenge of creating a basic
product or prototype in 24 hours to
crack a disease prevention problem.
Seventeen teams, ranging from one
to seven members, each chose a
pitched idea to work on during the
event.
Johnson said many pitched ideas
covered hugely problematic issues
in healthcare, health habits and
disease and cultures.
The teams worked with a wide
variety of ideas, including a website
to inform the local residents about
the
three-mile-long
dioxane
plume in Ann Arbor and how
clean the water sources are, an
app that simplified the language
in insurance policies for people to
better comprehend, and a paper
diagnostic strip for cardiovascular
disease and other key diseases for
developing countries and rural
areas.
Johnson said the organizers
aimed to have diverse participants,
including the students.
“We tried to get a big mix of
participants,” Johnson said. “We
were really looking for people in
health, software and tech. We
wanted a mix of ages that pulled
from different backgrounds, like
working professionals as well as
the student population.”
Tou’s team worked on a program
that created a physical therapy
See HACKATHON, Page 9
Students compete
in first annual A2
Health Hackathon
SINDUJA KILARU/Daily
Engineering junior AJ Goldstein presents his application, Balance, at A2 Health
Hacks at Palmer Commons on Wednesday.