The Veterans Health Hackathon 2025, taking place August 22–24, 2025 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street, is a three-day innovation event hosted by the Tampa VA Medical Center in collaboration with the VHA Innovation Ecosystem, Microsoft, and MIT Hacking Medicine. It brings together up to 300 participants - including Veterans, clinicians, engineers, designers, researchers, and more - to form diverse teams. Guided by expert mentors and equipped with Microsoft’s generative AI tools and de-identified VA data, teams address strategic priorities across three tracks: Timely Access to Care, Optimize Enterprise-wide Costs and Operational Efficiency, and Improve Community Care Coordination
The Veterans Health Hackathon 2025, took place August 22–24, 2025 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street, is a three-day innovation event hosted by the Tampa VA Medical Center in collaboration with the VHA Innovation Ecosystem, Microsoft, and MIT Hacking Medicine. It brought together up to 300 participants - including Veterans, clinicians, engineers, designers, researchers, and more - to form diverse teams. Guided by expert mentors and equipped with Microsoft’s generative AI tools and de-identified VA data, teams addressed strategic priorities across three tracks: Timely Access to Care, Optimize Enterprise-wide Costs and Operational Efficiency, and Improve Community Care Coordination