Healthcare hackathon: a valuable tool for change

Are you planning to organize a healthcare hackathon soon and want to ensure its success? We’re here to help! With our years of experience in organizing various successful healthcare hackathons, we have built a wealth of expertise. Whether you’re looking to organize an internal hackathon with your own team, engage a target audience, or invite external organizations, we can handle it all. In this article, you’ll discover how a hackathon in the healthcare sector can be a stimulating and impactful experience. Read on to learn how you, too, can organize a successful healthcare hackathon.

Benefits of a Hackathon in Healthcare

Are you ready to make an impact in healthcare? Below is an overview of common reasons why parties organize a healthcare hackathon:

Stimulate Innovation: A healthcare hackathon can promote innovation in the healthcare sector. Hackathons provide a platform where healthcare professionals, developers, designers, and other experts can collaborate to come up with innovative solutions for complex healthcare challenges. By organizing a healthcare hackathon, you create an environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.

Connect Diverse Stakeholders: A healthcare hackathon brings together various stakeholders, including healthcare institutions, tech companies, healthcare providers, insurers, students, patients, and academics. As the organizer, you play a crucial role in connecting these diverse groups and facilitating collaboration. The merging of different perspectives and expertise can lead to innovative and holistic solutions for healthcare.

Impact on Healthcare: By organizing a hackathon in healthcare, you can have a direct impact on the healthcare sector. Solutions developed during the hackathon can improve patient care, enhance the efficiency of healthcare processes, and introduce new approaches to complex healthcare challenges. As the organizer, you drive these positive changes.

Steps to Organizing a Successful Healthcare Hackathon

A healthcare hackathon is the perfect opportunity to stimulate innovative ideas and let creativity flourish. Whether you are a healthcare institution, a company in the health sector, or an organization focused on medical advancement, organizing a hackathon can lead to groundbreaking solutions. At Tailor Made Hackathon, we can take care of the entire organization of the hackathon for you—feel free to contact us for more information.

When contacting us, it’s useful to discuss the following matters:

Purpose of the Hackathon: What is the purpose of the hackathon? Do you value the process of the hackathon itself more, or are you focused on the final results? What is your vision for the event?

Hackathon Organizing Team: We find it most effective when there’s a single point of contact who can make key decisions. Of course, we’ll also provide advice in various areas. Typically, our clients assemble a small hackathon team with well-distributed roles that closely collaborates with our team to organize a successful event.

Location: Do you want to organize the hackathon at your own location, at an external venue or do you want to organise an online hackathon? This doesn’t always need to be expensive—sometimes spaces at innovation hubs, university campuses, or other venues can be used. Feel free to contact us, and we’ll gladly advise you.

Language of the Event: It’s essential to determine the language of the event. Will the event be in English, or are you expecting non-English-speaking participants as well?

Number of Participants: Determine the number of participants you want to invite. The optimal number depends on factors like available space, the type of hackathon, and the goal of the event. Too many participants can lead to logistical challenges and reduced engagement, while too few may limit the diversity of ideas and expertise.

Healthcare Hackathon: Suitable for Any Type of Organization

In recent years, we’ve organized numerous hackathons. If you’re an organization looking for a professional partner to organize a hackathon, you’ve come to the right place!

We organize healthcare hackathons for entities such as:

1. Municipal Health Service
2. Elderly care / nursing homes
3. Home care
4. Hospitals
5. Labs
6. Disability care
7. Mental health care
8. Addiction treatment
9. Youth care
10. Hospices / Palliative care
11. Obstetric care / Maternity care
12. Dental practices
13. Physiotherapy practices
14. General practitioner care
15. Rehabilitation centers
16. Ambulance care
17. Community nursing
18. Health insurers

Examples of Previous Healthcare Hackathons

In recent years, we’ve proudly organized various healthcare hackathons where innovation and collaboration were central. Below are some examples of hackathons we’ve organized:

Your Strength in Healthcare Hackathon: This event focused on finding solutions to offer more flexibility to healthcare employers and employees, with the ultimate goal of increasing job satisfaction. It was initiated by the Labor Market Agenda (CAOP) in collaboration with various employer and employee organizations. It was particularly relevant to addressing urgent staff shortages in elderly care.

Menzis Hackathon: Menzis, a leading health insurer, organized a hackathon to resolve a recurring issue within their customer contact center. By bringing together different departments, the problem was tackled successfully.

Vitality and Sustainable Employability Hackathon: We organized this internal hackathon for Evean, GGZ Drenthe, Icare, De Trans, and Zorggroep Meander (part of Espria), focusing on vitality and sustainable employability.

Sustainable Lab Hackathon: This unique initiative aimed to foster collaboration between laboratories on a campus in Central Netherlands, with a focus on sustainability.

Nursing Home Hackathon: This special event honored a deceased patient who had left a sum of money to the staff. The hackathon aimed to determine how to best use this money to relieve staff workload and improve the living environment for residents.

Want to Organize a Healthcare Hackathon? Contact Us!

Hackathons have proven time and again to be a valuable tool for stimulating innovation and tackling challenges together. The creativity and collaboration experienced during these events contribute to finding groundbreaking solutions for complex issues in healthcare. We’ve organized many impactful healthcare hackathons over the years, and we look forward to organizing many more.

Are you interested in organizing a hackathon for your organization? Contact us today to explore the possibilities. We’d love to walk you through what’s involved and determine if a hackathon is the right fit for your organization. Together, we can stimulate healthcare innovation and transform the sector!