Code-a-Thons

Interested in global conquest? Keep an eye on Health 2.0′s World Cup. We’re hosting international innovation competitions to improve the technology supporting our world’s health care systems in India, America, China, The Netherlands, Sweden and Japan. The world’s best health hackers will gain international visibility as they face-off for the Developers World Cup Title and the chance to win $10,000 in prize money.

Health 2.0′s “Code-a-Thons” are live events that occur over the course of one or more days, bringing together developers, designers, innovators and entrepreneurs to build exciting new applications and tools for improved health care.  Code-a-Thons typically attract more than 100 technologists and an array of sponsors interested in engaging this amazing audience.  These short and focused events result in the rapid development of interesting concepts and working prototype applications that can be developed further by the participating teams.

Throughout the day participants are able to attend short talks from sponsors and invited speakers about interesting issues related to health care and technology.  Sponsors will often use this time to go into more depth about their data sets, APIs, and other technologies. For participants Code-a-Thons are a great way to meet like-minded innovators and sharpen or develop their skills.  For sponsors Code-a-Thons present a great way to quickly develop new apps and discover new talent.  Many interesting development projects have been initiated at Health 2.0′s Code-a-Thon events.

Health 2.0′s Boston Big-Data Code-a-thon

Health 2.0's Boston Code-a-thon, is a coding competition designed around using big-data to build exciting new applications and tools to improve health care. This year, we're hosting the event in conjunction with our annual spring conference, Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston, which is focused on getting entrepreneurial teams from "big ideas" to the negotiating table with established health care leaders. Health 2.0 has partnered with athenahealth and MIT's H@cking Medicine to connect with some of the area's most ambitious health tech developers. We're expecting students from the community as well as professional technologists and researchers to join us for this fun day of rapid prototyping and creative health-hacking!

  • Total Prizes: $10,000
  • Dates: May 11th-12th, 2012

Washington DC’s HDI Code-a-thon: Preventing Obesity

Washington DC's HDI Code-a-thon: Preventing Obesity, is a coding competition designed around using big-data to build exciting new applications and tools to improve health care and prevent obesity. This year, Health 2.0 and Kaiser Permanente are hosting the event in conjunction with The Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapaloza, a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications that raise awareness of health system performance and spark community action to improve health.

  • Total Prizes: To Be Announced!
  • Dates: June 2nd - 3rd, 2012

Cajun Code Fest 2012: The Louisiana Code-a-thon

The Cajun Code Fest 2012 is a FREE two-day coding competition focusing on transforming “data” into health care solutions, specifically addressing childhood obesity. This exciting coding marathon will bring together undergraduate and graduate students from across the region along withprofessional software developers, designers, innovators, health care leaders, educators, and entrepreneurs. Participants will organize themselves into teams, either before arriving or during the event, and over a 36-hour period will build exciting new prototypes and tools for improved health care.

  • Total Prizes: $25,000
  • Dates: April 26 - April 28, 2012

Palo Alto Medical Foundation linkAges Kickoff Event

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s (PAMF) David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation is inviting the Silicon Valley community to combine its unique talents in developing new ways to help seniors age successfully. This ground-breaking event will occur on April 14-15, with a morning Community Education Event featuring national leaders in US health reform Todd Park, Eric Dishman and Paul Tang on Saturday, April 14, 8:30 am - 1 pm, followed by a Developer Kick-Off event the afternoon of April 14 (1-6 pm) and all day Sunday, April 15 (8 am - 5:30 pm). The focus of the Developer Kick-Off Event will be on brainstorming, storyboarding, and creating preliminary wireframes; teams will not be expected to produce any code during this two-day meeting. The Developer Kick-Off Event will serve as the launch for the PAMF "Successful Aging Developer Challenge" which will award the winning team with a 6-month residency in the PAMF Accelerator.

  • Total Prizes: $1,750
  • Dates: April 14-15, 2012

Hokie Health Code-a-Thon

The Hokie Health Code-a-thon 2012 will leverage world-class student and professional software development talent with healthcare IT expertise to innovate and create solutions to healthcare problems. The Hokie Health Code-a-thon 2012 will be a two-day coding competition, bringing together teams of student and professional developers to create innovative solutions to improve healthcare. This event has been developed in partnership with Health 2.0 and is part of the Health 2.0 Code-a-Thon series, which includes a range of developer-focused events in the United States, Europe and Asia.

  • Total Prizes: $5,000
  • Dates: April 13-14, 2012

SXSW’s Official Hacking Competition: The AT&T and Health 2.0 Mobile App Hackathon

Health 2.0 is excited to join forces with AT&T to host SXSW’s official Mobile App Hackathon on March 9th, 2012. Health 2.0 and AT&T are challenging developers, UI/UX designers and researchers to build mobile health applications over the course of 24 hours at the downtown Austin Convention Center from Friday, March 9th to Saturday, March 10th. The event will feature over $45,000 in cash and prizes – including HTC Jetstream tablets and Sierra Wireless 4G Elevate devices. The winner with the best health care app will be also be showcased at Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston and will automatically be entered as an AT&T funded startup as part of Startup Health’s Academy.
 

  • Total Prizes: $45,000
  • Dates: March 9th - March 10th, 2012