This weekend the second edition of Health Hack Day took place in the Victoria Tower overlooking Kista, Sweden's equivalent of Silicon Valley. 70 participants in 22 teams combines their knowledge of modern technology with science focused on health and wellness.
Health Hack Day started in 2012 and was the first of its kind. Since then, several hackathons with the same purpose started. During the same weekend, one in Belgium and one in Singapore took place.
The winners will also be part of Digital Health Days in August.
The winners of Health Hack Days 2013 are:
1. Better Kay - digital tools for women with incontinenceTeam members: Adam Scheuring, Christiana S Chae2. Adherence - digital service where patients and families can follow up medication.Team members: Alex Ma3. Right Angle - Rehab tools to easily measure mobilityTeam members: Chen Rui, Tommy Hinks, Jerker Skogby, Björn NuttiThe Hacker2Hacker Award:
Powerof2 - Game Accented tool to encourage children to help around the house.Team members: Karwan Zetali, David Söderström, Petter Bergman
Six additional teams are also invited to showcase their projects at the conference Digital Health Days, August 21 - 22:
Luna
Run Troll
Vitamin D Scanner
Bertrand
Dr. Maombi
Breath-O-Meter
Behind this year's edition of Health Hack Day is Ola Cornelius, Henrik Ahlen, Sara Riggare, and Kristina Landeström. For 24 hours, the teams have been asked to focus on solving problems and creating new services within health, self-care and wellness.
- Curiosity about this came from a disease perspective for me. A related party had diabetes and I started searching for digital tools and opportunities. There are lots of apps and sensors in the current situation to take advantage of health care but we've just opened the door a crack and saw a fraction of what's to come, says Ola Cornelius.
The renowed jury consisted of:
Ola Ahlvarsson - Founder and moderator of SIME. A super entrepreneur who has been active in many progressive projects since the 90s.
Rajiv Mehta - Self Care Entrepreneur and founder of Unfrazzle. Former Researchers at NASA and role model in Quantified Self movement.
Sara Riggare - Engineer, Parkinson patient and researchers. Sara is a researcher at Karolinska specializing in self-care for chronics and is a founder of Quantified Self Stockholm.
Tomas Seo - Innovation Director at Phorecast. Have strong interest Hackathon movement and self won two. I also work against KI researchers with self-care for chronics.
Ia Modin - Attorney at Gerde Wesslau law firm. Ia is specialized in solving problems and using the law as a tool for finding sensible business solutions.