Hacking Medicine’s purpose is to bring together the most excited and innovative thinkers in the Boston area and come out at the end with actionable projects and passionate teams.

Our 2nd hackathon will be held on February 25th and 26th at the Media Lab at MIT.  To view past events, please see go here.

We’re capping participation at 80 people to ensure focus and a productive distribution of expertise. The body will be made up of engineers, students, physicians, and entrepreneurs.

Read below, and apply here now.

Topics

The inaugural conference will focus on 4 topics:

1. Big Data

We’re collecting massive data like never before – about patients, hospitals, treatments, and more. What are the best ways to extract meaningful information from this data? How can we best apply what we learn to make real changes?

2. Biosensing & Biostimulation

The technology that drives sensors has become cheap, crazy cheap. How can we best use these new sensors (which are sometimes also stimulation) to capture and record new kinds of data or design new tests to detect diagnose disease more accurately than ever before?

3. Healthcare Automation

Any practicing doctor will tell you how tedious and formulaic certain parts of practice can be. What parts of healthcare practice are least addressed by modern technology?

4. Synthetic Biology

This burgeoning field is enabling the programming of cells in unheard of ways. Yet there are still severe limitations in what’s possible. What are the best ways to utilize current techniques to make the biggest impact today?