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Hacking Health Camp is the dream of bringing together health professionals, technological profiles, entrepreneurs etc. to build the health of tomorrow.
Hacking Health Camp is the dream of bringing together health professionals, technological profiles, entrepreneurs etc. to build the health of tomorrow.
The promise of HHC is to turn an idea into a working prototype in 50 hours. A lot of people have fantastic ideas, but how many have the possibility to realize them?
By participating in the Hacking Health Camp you enter into health innovation and discover different ways of collaboration.
Hackathon: An event during which people with different skills come together for three days to work on a collaborative project.
For a long time reserved for software developers, the concept of hackathon has been exported for a few years now to other sectors, particularly health. And by chance, the largest health hackathon in the world takes place every year in Strasbourg: Hacking Health Camp.
Since 2014, it's more than 270 prototypes and 27 startups created after the hackathon.
Before creating the Hacking Health Camp, the team took the time to observe the gap that exists between those who create medical innovations and those who use them.
Unnecessary features, difficulty in handling, non-existent interoperability … the obstacles to the adoption of new health solutions are well identified. And the explanation is simple. Naturally, profiles from technological fields and medical profiles do not speak the same language. The Hacking Health Camp is therefore there to break this barrier and create opportunities.
But beyond the lack of communication between health and tech, we wanted to make Hacking Health Camp an event that brings together all the stakeholders in innovation. From the outset, the event has been open to all players in the health sector (health professionals, patient associations, healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical laboratories, health institutions, public and private health insurers) and in the digital sector (designers, developers, engineers, tech players, entrepreneurs). It is this diversity that creates the richness of the event.
What happens next?
It is impossible to anticipate the success of a project in the long term, but those who want to continue are not « let loose » in the wild. We quickly realised the need for orientation of the projects at the end of the Hacking Health Camp. After the hackathon, we remain at the disposal of the teams to suggest the best way forward… with sometimes very beautiful successes (which you can discover right here).
