AT&T Developer Program

Virginia Tech students, Carilion doctors, nurses, researchers, scientists, and analytics staff will work on projects leveraging technology to solve a big challenge in the world of medicine---improving health and wellness care. Student participants will analyze publicly accessible health data and develop apps. Participants will investigate how the data were collected and how is it processed and how it could be used to develop an app that improves care, reduces costs, and enhances the patient’s overall experience.

This hackathon’s goal is to tackle challenges posed by the rapidly evolving world of data collection within the healthcare environment. The volume of data from wearable devices and the large volume of patient and communication data collected, is astonishing. Tracking health information is vital for many patients and may signal the need for follow-up intervention improve healthcare outcomes or to avoid hospital admission or readmission. For example, an app linked to smart devices could deliver valuable data to health professional teams and improve the overall quality care.

Fostering an academic, technology and healthcare community of innovation focused on improving health and wellness care is the main goal of this hackathon. With Carilion Clinics’ participation and support, we anticipate the app will be tested, improved and implemented in the New River Valley to positively impact the healthcare our community receives.

• Thursday, April 7, 5:30 pm – 11:30 pm, Room 30, Pamplin Hall/Atrium – Opening Ceremony & Bluemix Training
• Friday, April 8, 5:30 pm – 12:00 am, Room 30, Pamplin Hall – Hacking Begins
• Saturday, April 9, 8:00 am – 7:40 pm Hacking, Pitches, Judging, Prizes Awarded and After-Hack Party

Register via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-apps-for-global-good-in-healthcare-analytics-hackathon-tickets-21458211087

• Execution of Health and Wellness Theme
  Does the app's content or intended audience address health and wellness improvement in some special way? How well could the app impact health and wellness at Carilion Clinic?
• Innovation
  Is the solution a different take on an existing application or is it truly unique? Does the app mash up data or services that you wouldn’t have thought would work together? Is the solution more technically challenging than the others?
• Ambition
  Does the app do one thing or does it have a lot of functionality? Was the idea behind the app creative? What was added to the app to make it special or more useful?
• User Experience
  Does the app's UI look sloppy or is it professional? Is it a compelling user experience? Is the app easy to use? Does the app's workflow make sense? Is it intuitive?
• Presentation Quality/Impact
  Did the team stay within the time limit of their presentation? Was the team able to communicate their idea and translate it to the app they produced?
• Overall Quality
  Does the app work completely from start to finish? Was there anything in the app that wasn't fully implemented? How many bugs were encountered? Were they severe? Did the team scope their app's features well given the time frame?
• Other
  Demerits for "brought" code.