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Interdisciplinary Online Hackathons as an Approach to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study

Interdisciplinary Online Hackathons as an Approach to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study

The hackathon was conducted over a period of 4 days, from Friday to Monday afternoon. An example schedule is shown in Figure 1. Activities and schedule of a 4-day online hackathon. A keynote from the director of the interoperability unit of the Berlin Institute of Health opened the event, motivated the teams, and pointed out the importance of this online hackathon to create solutions for the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Katarina Braune, Pablo-David Rojas, Joscha Hofferbert, Alvaro Valera Sosa, Anastasiya Lebedev, Felix Balzer, Sylvia Thun, Sascha Lieber, Valerie Kirchberger, Akira-Sebastian Poncette

J Med Internet Res 2021;23(2):e25283

Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

In total, 15 meetings were held, with the goals to develop systematic recommendations for conducting a health hackathon on the basis of this presented hackathon and to examine the impact of a smaller, cost-efficient hackathon on the digital health community of Berlin as a large city.

Akira-Sebastian Poncette, Pablo-David Rojas, Joscha Hofferbert, Alvaro Valera Sosa, Felix Balzer, Katarina Braune

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(3):e17004

A Men Who Have Sex With Men–Friendly Doctor Finder Hackathon in Guangzhou, China: Development of a Mobile Health Intervention to Enhance Health Care Utilization

A Men Who Have Sex With Men–Friendly Doctor Finder Hackathon in Guangzhou, China: Development of a Mobile Health Intervention to Enhance Health Care Utilization

To develop an m Health prototype for this MSM-friendly doctor finder, we organized an MSM-friendly doctor finder hackathon contest between October 2018 and April 2019. Key information of the formative work (including crowdsourcing outputs and feedback from focus group discussions) was presented to hackathon participants via images and text in the hackathon contest handbook. A detailed description of the implementation of this hackathon contest and its outputs is reported below.

Chunyan Li, Yuan Xiong, Hao Fong Sit, Weiming Tang, Brian J Hall, Kathryn E Muessig, Chongyi Wei, Huanyu Bao, Shufang Wei, Dapeng Zhang, Guodong Mi, Fei Yu, Joseph D Tucker

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(2):e16030

Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand

Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand

The prospect of developing and implementing a health care hackathon created a valuable opportunity to achieve this goal. In addition to providing this opportunity, the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Science and Technology (HST) Sana team provided the experience and knowledge to conduct a hackathon, opening the door to new innovations and collaboration.

Atipong Pathanasethpong, Chitsutha Soomlek, Katharine Morley, Michael Morley, Pattarawit Polpinit, Alon Dagan, James W Weis, Leo Anthony Celi

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2017;5(10):e155