HealthHacks PH is the premier health hackathon for students in the Philippines. Founded in 2015, HealthHacks is a 2-day overnight hackathon, where students form teams to solve big problems in healthcare and medicine through technology.
This year, HealthHacks PH is organizing a bigger and better hackathon, with a target of 100 students to come on February 4-5, 2017.
Microsoft Office, Makati City
February 4-5, 2017
Speaker & Judge
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Informatics at National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Speaker & Judge
Founder and CEO of mClinica
Speaker
Yale University School of Medicine Summa Cum Laude
Judge
Designer and Business Analyst at By Implication
Judge
Founding President of the Philippine Nursing Informatics Association
Judge
Worldwide Communications Lead, Corporate HQ, IBM
Judge
Chief Science Research Specialist at DOST-SEI
Mentor
Co-founder and CTO of Medifi; CEO of Launchgarage and Proudcloud
Mentor
Founder and CEO of MEDIX
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A hackathon is a competition for teams of people, usually programmers, to create software applications or hardware solutions overnight, in the hopes of “hacking” or finding a better way to do things.
Yes you can! HealthHacks is designed to gather people of different backgrounds under one roof, even those who don’t have coding experience. On the day of the competition, there will be other participants with coding skills who you can team up with.
We’re allowing senior high school students and college students to join the competition. We’re only allowing these age groups of students to join to limit the age gap between participants.
Yes you can! You can register as a team of 3-4 members or as an individual. For individuals, we'll have a problem pitch session for you to introduce yourself and form a team with other participants. For teams of 3, you may also add individuals to your team during the problem pitch.
Since HealthHacks is a hackathon, we will be expecting demos of your projects by the end of the competition. However, you should still put a lot of thought to your idea, its viability, and its potential impact to society in terms of healthcare.
HealthHacks is not just a competition, but an avenue for incredible fun and learning. This is an opportunity for you to work with fellow students from different fields, and to create something valuable in just two days! By talking to other teams and mentors, you will find yourself inspired to solve local healthcare issues with your project.
Hackathons, by nature, are designed to happen overnight. The sleepover is part of the hackathon experience. We highly encourage you to sleepover, but should you be unable to do so, you are still free to join. Just be sure not to miss your pitch!
Just be sure to bring your laptops, chargers, and adaptors. Feel free to also bring any hardware you think will be useful for your hacking!
Please email us at tiffany.uy@healthhacks.ph if you still have any questions! We’d love to answer them for you.
