Healthcare needs to be disrupted, and this weekend a mix of 80 students, entrepreneurs, engineers and physicians gathered together to do just that. Hosted by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, H@cking Medicine gave teams 36 hours to brainstorm, build and hack their way into a field that’s ripe for innovation and desperately needs an update to its outdated systems.
The event was led by Elliot Cohen, an MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Allen Cheng, an MD/PhD candidate at Harvard and MIT; and Zen Chu, an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center. Together, they’ve been working to inspire students to become health care entrepreneurs by bringing them into the ecosystem and giving them the tools they need to drive innovation.
One participant flew in from San Francisco just to attend the event, while another hacked a second idea from 2 to 6 a.m. yesterday morning. One team changed their idea with only three hours to go, looking to find the perfect way to disrupt group purchase organizations. At the end of the weekend, however, it was three teams who walked away with $1,000.
Winning for “Best Overall Presentation” was MyBetterFit, a website that helps women discover which birth control aligns best with them, eliminating the “hormonal lottery” many get stuck having to play. Massive Health’s Marketing and Business Developer Andrew Rosenthal sat on the panel of judges, calling MyBetterFit a concept everyone in the room could understand and rewarded it for its clarity and simplicity.
Within 36 hours, one team created “Universal Prosthetics,” a prosthetic designed to change its shape throughout a patient’s lifetime, eliminating the cost of re-fitting. They won “Most Progressed,” and were one of the only groups to have a physical prototype to show to the judges.
Walking away with the third prize for “Most Disruptive” was “ParkinSync,” an online platform that integrates pattern-based sensing with real-time clinical judgment. The concept seemed so simple — an app that can measure a Parkinson’s patient’s tremor or dyskinesia, send that data to their physician and then allow the physician to send back dosage recommendations — but its simplicity is what made it so disruptive.
“There’s a huge disconnect between what happens inside a doctor’s office and going home,” said Sean Lorenz, a PhD candidate from Boston University.
And judge Belén Carrillo-Rivas, director of research and development projects and strategy atPfizer, agreed, admitting that communication between patients and physicians is a large pain point in healthcare.
“The teams really looked at where the needs are now,” Carrillo-Rivas said. “It’s amazing what they could develop in 36 hours.”
Cohen encouraged everyone to enter other contests in the area, including the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. “Be thinking of where you can share these ideas,” he said, hoping that participants carry their projects into the months that come long after the event is over.
Prior to the event, Cohen said, “We want to help educate and coach people to think about how to fundamentally improve the system, and toward that end we try to reward ideas that we think have a real chance of making a difference.”
Healthcare needs hackers, and those who participated in H@cking Medicine have the ability to change the face of the medical field forever.
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