Organisers of this weekend’s Brisbane Health Hack are currently collating and finalising problems from medical researchers, health professionals and students to help them find innovative solutions for the health sector.
RCC/QCIF/IMB eResearch Analyst Dr Nick Hamilton is once again a "Problem Wrangler" for Health Hack, i.e. in charge of coordinating the problems to be solved.
"What is particularly exciting this year is the diversity of problems to solve, ranging from issues in Motor Neuron Disease, maternity data, and social robots for healthcare,” said Dr Nick.
“Previous Health Hack prototypes have gone on to gain substantial seed funding to develop the ideas further. This year we have teams that are already planning national strategies in the event of a successful solution being created by the Health Hack developers and designers."
Issues available to hack include:
- an application for Motor Neuron Disease that is patient-centred to collect data regularly — anywhere, anytime
- a user-friendly website that allows comparisons between maternity facilities and state or national averages, whilst also displaying the data as infographics
- social robot-delivered health and wellbeing programs
- development of an e-mentoring tool for biomedical higher degree research students
- Clinic2Cloud: a platform-independent graphical user interface for anonymising and uploading clinical brain scans to an image processing cloud instance.
Read more about these problems on the Health Hack website. If you think you can help develop these technologies, then register now to join the free event.
Everyone is welcome to participate in Health Hack — researchers, students, healthcare professionals, other scientists, software developers, educators, engineers and designers — to help create innovative solutions to interesting problems.
Health Hack is a national event that will take place over the weekend of 3–5 November 2017 in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Brisbane’s Health Hack will be held at ThoughtWorks in the CBD, and will feature free childcare.
RCC is a proud sponsor of Brisbane’s Health Hack.
Any queries, please contact Dr Nick at: n.hamilton@imb.uq.edu.au.
