Due to barriers ranging from high costs to lack of coverage, remote physical location to insufficient healthcare infrastructure, medical access continues to be one of the greatest problems that continually affect millions of individuals across the world. Health tech represents one of the most innovative and impactful interdisciplinary applications of technology. Adapted from our previous vertical of Healthcare, Medical Access as a challenge embodies our hope to inspire focused project developing on broadening the gateway to a basic human right.
We're looking for creative, innovative ways to improve access of any form to the medical care of both physical and/or mental health across individuals and communities. Perhaps you will focus on developing solutions using drone technology to deliver medical supplies to remote locations in the world like Zipline. Maybe you will examine ways to inspire greater ownership and leverage of information regarding your medical history, like Embleema, which created a blockchain network for patients to access and share their medical records. You might think about how to expedite the process of registering at a new hospital, like One Medical, a company that unified hospitals across the country under one platform. You may even hope to reinvent healthcare coverage plans to better serve underprivileged communities and those without health insurance, or redesign common laboratory tests and diagnostics procedures to take place from the comfort of one's home. Regardless, we know that you will develop solutions to critical challenges in medical access and beyond to make future generations healthier and happier.
- How FujiFilm is Using AI to Optimize Hospital Workflows with Florian from FujiFilm
- Saturday 2/15, 1am - 1:20am, Huang 018
- The talk will focus on how FujiFilm utilizes it's new AI platform "ReiLi" to provide a one-stop solutions for practitioners in hospitals, optimizing their workflow and making sure they can see as many people in need as possible and deliver the best outcomes.FujiFilm's platform strategy includes actively engaging with startups and other partners to create the most complete solution possible.
- Florian Geier, FujiFilm Corporation, Corporate Planning Headquarters, Business Development & Creation Division: Florian joined FujiFilm in 2016 after being a Physics grad student at The University of Tokyo. Ever since joining, he has been managing international projects, including in the medical fields, involving startups from all over the world.
- Deep Learning for Medical Imaging with Jonathan from Google AI Research
- Saturday 2/15, 1pm - 1:30pm, Huang 018
- Jonathan Krause is an engineer at Google working on applying machine learning to tasks in medical imaging, with speciality in Ophthalmology. Before that, he did his Ph.D. at Stanford, focusing on applying computer vision to tasks requiring high degrees of human expertise.
- Building Wakanda: Saving lives with autonomous aircraft with Keller Rinaudo, CEO of Zipline, one of the newest unicorn companies
- Saturday 2/15, 5pm - 5:30pm, Huang 018
- Keller Rinaudo is a robotics and healthcare innovator who is showing the world how drone technology can be used to save lives. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zipline, which delivers life-saving medical supplies to hospitals and health centers on demand via autonomous drones built at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Zipline was named one of the “50 Most Disruptive Companies in the U.S.” in 2019 by CNBC, called a “visionary project” by the World Health Organization, and dubbed “the new face of the aerospace industry” by The New York Times. Rinaudo launched Zipline in 2011 after traveling the world as a professional rock climber and seeing the challenges to healthcare access that billions of people in remote areas globally face.”
- Medical Access Grand Prize
- Sponsor: TreeHacks
- Prize: Allbirds Tree Runners for each team member
- Fujifilm's NeverStop Medical Innovation Prize
- Sponsor: FujiFilm
- Prize: Instax camera + film, Japanese sweets, and VIP tickets to tour FujiFilm's invite-only showroom in Tokyo
- Bridging the location gap
- How can we deliver medical care to remote areas or third world countries without stable existing healthcare infrastructure?
- Financial Cost
- How can we widen the barrier of entry to treatment by decreasing the costs of medications, therapies, or procedures?
- Coverage
- One of the most controversial aspects of modern healthcare is insurance. What are some ways that we can reimagine healthcare coverage plans trough tech?
- Disaster Relief
- How can medical access be improved in responses to emergencies and natural disasters such as wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, or even health pandemics?
- In–home Assistance
- How can we improve access to diagnostics, procedures, or laboratory tests from the comfort of our homes?
- Information Ownership
- How can we improve access and control of our medical history information records?
- Stanford Tensorflow tutorial - should you decide to work on data-intensive projects
- World Health Organization: This includes specific information about health coverage across international countries.
- National Emergency Medical Services Information System: The National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) is the national database storing EMS data from the U.S. States and Territories.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Common Voices is an open-source, multi-language dataset of voices that anyone can use to train speech-enabled applications.
- Medical imaging datasets from github username sfikas (https://github.com/sfikas/medical-imaging-datasets), beamandrew (https://github.com/beamandrew/medical-data), and visualdata (https://www.visualdata.io/)
- Healthcare (https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets#healthcare) datasets from Awesome Public Datasets (https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets) and datahub (https://datahub.io/collections)
- Norma (https://devpost.com/software/norma-bir2zg) (past TreeHacks project!), an interactive chat bot aimed at helping to detect breast cancer
- HomeCare (https://devpost.com/software/homecare-yfg3r4), an Alexa skill that monitors the dependent's sleep status from home.
- Perio-gone-tis (https://devpost.com/software/perio-gone-tis), a real time, low-cost detection of dental health machine learning based platform
- Docodial (https://devpost.com/software/docodial), an interface for non-native speakers of a language to get the health coverage they need using interpreters