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

Background

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.

Health 2.0 has partnered with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health to take a data-driven stand against obesity. We're expecting students from the community as well as professional technologists and researchers to join us for this fun weekend of rapid prototyping and creative health-hacking!

Now CTO of the United States, Todd Park, presenting to Health 2.0's First Washington DC Code-a-thon participants back when he was "only" CTO for all of Health and Human Services.

Throughout the course of the event Health 2.0 will provide:

• An introduction for those completely new to code-a-thons and time to ask Health 2.0 staff questions about how get involved.
• The chance to participate in a structured ideation session that will help you find a team .
• A number of excellent tech talks and intimate discussion groups with Health Data Experts who will cover cutting edge issues in big-data, health care technology, and the obesity epidemic.
• Feedback from experienced judges and your local developer community.
• First place winners get admission to The Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapaloza (tickets valued at $300) and 2 passes to Health 2.0's San Francisco Conference (tickets valued at $1,800)
• Drinks, cash prizes and the chance to network with some of Washington DC's most motivated developers!