Healthcare Hackathons Provide Educational and Innovation Opportunities: A Case Study and Best Practice Recommendations

摘要: Physicians and other healthcare professionals are often the end users of medical innovation; however, they rarely involved in beginning design stages. This results ineffective solutions with poor adoption rates. At early stage, innovation would benefit from input professionals. report describes first-ever rehabilitation hackathon--an interdisciplinary competitive team event aimed at accelerating improving providing an educational experience for participants. Hackathons gaining traction as a way to accelerate by bringing together diverse group different industries who work collaboratively teams learn each other, focus on specific problem ("pain point"), develop solution using thinking techniques, pitch participants, gather fast feedback quickly alter prototype ("pivoting"). 102 hackers including 19 (18.6 %) physicians participated, over course 2 days worked teams, pitched ideas developed prototypes. Three awards were given prototypes that may improve function persons disabilities. 43 women (42.2 59 men (57.8 %); ranged age 16 79 years old; and, 75 reported their age, 63 (84 less than 40 old 12 (16 or older. contributes emerging literature hackathons means education training supporting innovation.