H@cking Medicine
A Production of the Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Please sign up to pitch your idea here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoR54TwwAqFxdHRyYldkQWJMdWFkOTF4cjdaM3N1Q0E#gid=0

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We are proud to announce a joint hack-a-thon between athenahealth and Hacking Medicine! The goal of this event is to bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today. If you are an engineer, entrepreneur, physician, designer, or scientist, then come get involved to help drive the much-needed change in healthcare.

To participate, apply now through the following application, which can be found here. Bring your skills, your ideas, or both. We’re selecting 120 people just like you.

End the weekend with a team, cash prizes, and a hack on its first steps towards disrupting healthcare. Past teams at hack-a-thons just like this one have gone on to found companies, enter business plan competitions, and secure venture funding.

The hack-a-thon will take place over the weekend from May 3^rd – 5^th. The weekend will kick-off with a social event to meet the other attendees (and free apps!) at Mead Hall located in Kendall Square in Cambridge. The hack-a-thon will start on Saturday and will take place at athenahealth located at 400 North Beacon St in Watertown, MA. athenahealth is PAYING for attendees to take cabs to and from the event (if you are accepted, more details on this will follow).  In addition, athena is covering all food for the weekend too. Please see the agenda below for more details about the logistics for the event. Last but not least, the first place winner will have the chance to win $5K!

This hack-a-thon is part of athena’s “More Disruption Please” (MDP) innovation and partnership program that targets like-minded innovators, entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and individuals who share our vision of making health care work as it should through openness and connectivity of disruptive solutions. We know we can’t innovate everything on our own and look to find other disruptive technologies that advance our mission. Through MDP, athenahealth is making significant strides to open athenaNet to an increasing number of partners, and together, launch a massive surge of disruptive innovation in healthcare IT. To learn more about MDP and partnership opportunities, please visit www.athenahealth.com/disruption | Twitter: @athenaMDP

Agenda:

Friday, May 3rd: Kickoff Social Event

Location: Mezzanine level of Meadhall; 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Time:  7 – 10 PM

Saturday, May 4th: Day 1 of Hack-a-thon

Location: athenahealth, 400 North Beacon St, Watertown Ma (athena will pay for cabs with a certain distance to and from their facilities. More details to follow if you are accepted)

9:00am – 10:30am                              Breakfast served, Opening Speakers

10:30am – 11:00am                            Idea Pitches

11:00am+ – 9PM                                  Break into teams and hack! (Lunch and Dinner will be served)

Sunday, May 5th: Day 2 of Hack-a-thon

Location: athenahealth, 400 North Beacon St, Watertown Ma (athena will pay for cabs with a certain distance to and from their facilities. More details to follow if you are accepted)

9:00am – 10:00am                              Breakfast served

10:00am – 10:30am                            Hacking resumes

5:30pm – 6:30pm                                Team pitches

6:30pm – 7:00pm                                Judging & Winners Announced!

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Are you building a health tech company focused on the older demographic?  Want feedback from experts in the market?  Apply by April 12

What categories are there to apply to for the event?

1.       Medication Management
2.       Aging with Vitality (e.g.:  Increase Daytime Energy, Maintain Muscle Strength, Manage Arthritis, Improve or Aid  in  Memory/Cognition , Brain fitness Improve/Aid Hearing, Improve/Aid Vision)
3.       Vital Sign Monitoring
4.        Care Navigation
5.        Emergency Detection & Response
6.       Physical Fitness
7.        Social Engagement
8.        Diet & Nutrition
9.        Behavioral & Emotional  Health
10.      Aging in Place
11.       Other

Where can I get more information:

Visit the AARP Health Innovation@50+ Live Pitch http://health50.org/

Application Deadline:  Friday, April 12, 2013

Eligibility requirements:

• Companies will be focused on consumer-oriented health technologies for the “50 and over” market.
• Companies will have launched their product/service within one year of the May 31, 2013 event date
• Companies will not have raised more than $5 million in funding.

How many winners will there be?

There will be two prize winners – Judges winners and the AARP consumer favorites.

• Judges’ Winner
  Leading investors and health technology experts will pick an overall winner.
• AARP Consumers’ Winner
  Active AARP consumer members will be participating in the latter half of the day and will vote for the consumer fan favorite.

What will the winners receive?

Most importantly, the winning companies will be receive bragging rights, having won the AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch 2012 trophy – either consumer or judges favorites – and with that that they are leading the way in innovative, cutting-edge healthcare technology. The winning companies will also receive prize packages containing valuable tech-related products. They will be given interview opportunities with the attending consumer, technology and venture media, providing them the spotlight as leaders in the future of healthcare technology.

Key Judging Criteria

The five minute Expert Judges pitch will focus on these four critical elements:

• Functionality – Is their product easy to use and does it get the job done?
• Potential – Includes profitability, size of the market, likelihood of adoption, and growth potential.
• Team / People – What experience does your team have and can they make your product or service a success?
• Creativity/Differentiation – Why would you use this product and/or service and not the alternatives?

The AARP Consumers pitch will focus on these four critical elements:

• Need – The consumer pitch also should define the need the product/service is designed to address – Why should they want this product?
• Marketing – How easy is it to get this product?
• Usage – Why this product is easy to use?
• Value – Why the value and cost of this product makes it a “must have”? What is the value proposition?

Want more info? http://health50.org/ or contact Andrew Rosenthal (@rosenthal)

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The next edition of their challenge has been announced!  You can read about it here: http://www.datadesigndiabetes.com/blog/2013-data-design-diabetes/

Or you can read about it below… (the official post from the great folks from Luminary Labs is below)

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Take a look at the registered teams here: http://bit.ly/12jbHG4

Check out teams, feel free to join another, or lend your expertise to a team that can use your help!

If you haven’t filled out the form yet, do so here: http://bit.ly/Xu3hGi

Remember that registering your team is REQUIRED for pitching on Sunday!

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We are proud to announce the Spring Hacking Medicine Conference!  In just over one year of bringing together engineers, scientists, physicians, designers, and entrepreneurs to create disruptive innovations in health we have seen stunning results – a new class at MIT, a slew of new companies (Podimetrics, BETH Project, Smart Scheduling, PillPack, and many more), and a whole community of folks hacking medicine to improve healthcare.

This year we are proud to be organizing Hacking Medicine at Hack / Reduce.  It is becoming more and more apparent every day that Big Data is going to make a huge impact on healthcare. There are now hundreds of Accountable Care Organizations in the US and they do not have the tools that they need to engage with their populations manage data effectively and deliver better care at a lower cost. Everyday we are starting to see the signs of a growing industry of healthcare data hackers.  Ginger.io recently raised a $6.5M from Khosla Ventures and others to “open up” data-driven healthcare (http://bit.ly/VVAI78), and just yesterday there was an article in Giga-Om about an algorithmic approach to prescribing medication outperforming the average physician (http://bit.ly/YvDVFL).

Clearly, the need exists for more hacking exists.  Yet, in healthcare, even the most common of Big Data tools such as MapReduce (which Hack/Reduce is named after) are foreign concepts.  We are excited to be working with Hack/Reduce to bring this event together.  The great folks at Hack/Reduce will be bringing technical mentors from the Big Data community and we will be bringing physicians from around the Boston/Cambridge community.  You will have the people who understand the needs in healthcare right next to those best at using data to create solutions.

If you want to radically change healthcare, then apply now: http://bit.ly/WuG46g.  Bring your skills, your ideas, or both.  We’re selecting 100 people just like you.

Leave with a team, $5K in cash prizes, and a hack on its first steps towards becoming a company and disrupting healthcare.

Hacking Medicine Spring 2013 takes place on March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at Hack/Reduce in Kendall Sq.  If you are selected we will send you more detailed logistics.

Healthcare needs you, come be part of the solution.

- The Hacking Medicine Team

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Thank you for attending Hacking Medicine this past weekend. We hope you had a blast – we definitely did.

Don’t forget to apply to the MGH CAMTech $100,000 Innovation Award: https://bitly.com/TR19cw

Please sign up for our newsletter to stay tuned on future events and news: http://eepurl.com/hbZgY

If you’re excited about our mission to build the healthcare entrepreneurship ecosystem, you can join our growing Hacking Medicine team by emailing us at hackmed-info@mit.edu. There are always ways to get involved regardless of your skills and time commitment.

Keep hacking!

Hacking Medicine Team

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Slide decks are due at 3:30PM to hackmed-info@mit.edu. Presentations will begin in the 8th floor main room at 4:00PM.

Presentations will be 3 MINUTES and will be promptly cut off with a timer. Please rehearse so you can fit in this time, especially if you have a demo!

We are excited to be offering FIVE $1000 prizes for these categories:

• Global Health
• Overall Impact
• Best Pitch
• Most Improved
• 1st Prize

Presentation Guidelines

Impact

• What is the problem?
• What solutions exist?
• How is yours better?

Technical Details

• What are the specifications?
• Software – demo / Wetlab – details
• What did you accomplish this weekend?

Next Steps

• What will it take to reach a full demo?
• Where do you see this going?

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All PITCHES are listed here: http://bitly.com/Y7ngtV

Once you have a team, sign them up in the form below. You can see all the TEAMS here: http://bitly.com/SKTtEb

You can request time with a mentor here: http://bitly.com/XAPGgy

You MUST be signed up to be allowed to present on Sunday!

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We want to hear your idea! Use the form below to log your pitch.

See all the pitches here to find your team: http://bitly.com/Y7ngtV

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