Hackathons are events, generally more than one day, in which programmers and those involved in software, Web or app development gather to create products to try to solve a problem.
The Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology, Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, University of Connecticut and MIT Hacking Medicine are jointly leading this spring’s hackathon, called Patient Experience Hackathon: Improving Recovery and Reducing Readmissions.
More than 120 students and professionals from Yale, UConn and throughout Connecticut from backgrounds including medicine, public health, statistics, business, bioinformatics and design will form interdisciplinary teams and work to develop sustainable, successful ventures.
Additionally, there will be a “Data Marathon Track” where teams will build digital tools and analytics to formulate better risk prediction models.
“Efforts to improve the patient experience have touched on multiple domains including emphasizing patient-centered care, creating a healing environment, providing excellent customer service and improving care transitions and patient education,” said Emily Bucholz, one of the lead organizers of the event and a MD/PhD candidate at CORE. “Recognizing the importance of the patient experience and its impact on recovery, we wanted to focus on identifying better tools and strategies to address patients’ physical, emotional and informational needs in order to improve recovery and keep patients healthy.”
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