Hackathons have become commonplace at major healthcare institutions of late, and the Cleveland Clinic has hosted an annual innovation summit for 13 years, but the city of Cleveland has never hosted a healthcare hackathon. That will change this fall, as the Clinic will join with other area health systems to convene the first Cleveland Medical Hackathon.
The Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, the MetroHealth System and life sciences collaborative BioEnterprise will host the event Sept. 26-27 at the HIMSS Innovation Center, part of the Global Center for Health Innovation in downtown Cleveland. The hackathon is free, but participants — either individuals or teams — must apply to participate through the Cleveland MedHack website, organizers said.
Cleveland MedHack will focus on big data, in pursuit of new ideas to make burgeoning healthcare data stores more useful to care providers and patients.
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“A hackathon brings a diverse group of extremely bright people together, aligning them behind a common cause,” Cleveland Clinic Associate CIO Dr. William Morris said in a statement. “In this case, we hope to find solutions to challenges we face in healthcare.”
