NW England: Greater Manchester AHSN Hackathon 'Young Carers'

Date: Thursday 31st July

Time: 8.30 – 17.00

Lunch and refreshments will be provided


On the 31st July GM AHSN invite you to an all-day hackathon focussed on developing solutions that can make a difference to the lives of young carers.

There are currently over 700,000 carers in the UK. In the addition to the difficulties of caring for a sick relative, many are placed at a disadvantage in terms of their academic and social lives. The hackathon is your opportunity to make an impact, test your skills and work collaboratively to help develop solutions to this often overlooked social problem. The event is open to everybody, regardless of experience, though we’re particularly looking for:

• Carers and anybody with experience of the challenges faced
• Software developers
• Web developers
• Designers/ UX experts
• Health and social care professionals
• Marketers
• Project managers
• Researcher
• Coders

The GM AHSN has worked with young carers to identify key challenge areas in:

• Support for epilepsy
• Alert systems for schools and offices
• Time management for young carers
• Social Networking for young carers

(Click here for more info on challenges)
The hackathon will bring together all the right people to help develop your idea in super quick time: You can meet and work with people with skills and experience from the healthcare and technology industries, all with the common goal of wanting to make a difference. The event will be attended by a group of young carers from the Manchester based charity Family Action, who will be acting as mentors and contributing to the development of your concepts.

Prizes

As a prize, the winning team will be rewarded with a day of free consultancy from Inventya, to help develop and commercialise your idea. Inventya is a science and technology commercialisation consultancy with an 80% success rate in helping early stage companies win funding for R&D and technology product development.


If you’d like more information, please contact sarah.dougan AT gmahsn.org

My source: @Stefan
 
[ I can't make it :( ]

North West Health Hack 15/16 June 2013

Dear Health 2.0 Manchester member,

Please see an update on opportunities that might be of your interest:

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North West Health Hack 15/16 June 2013
This is a free event where clinicians can work with some very talented developers/coders and designers to develop their ideas into working prototypes. There will also be an opportunity to get some early concept validation and feedback from investment/ technology and NHS mentors.  The event is not only open to new concepts but also to ones that are already in development so that teams that are already formed are also invited! Who is organising it: Barclays, ECH Alliance, University of Manchester, Health 2.0 Manchester Chapter, TechHubManchester. Dr Ranjit Gill (Chief Clinical Officer, NHS Stockport) & Dr Mike Burrows (Area Director, NHS Greater Manchester) will attend the event.

Check it out  & REGISTER at http://nwhealthhack.com & follow on Twitter @NWHealthHack

Blueprint Health accelerator is currently accepting applications for their summer program
We have been approached by Blueprint Health to share this opportunity with our community: Blueprint Health, the premier healthcare accelerator program, located in the heart of New York City. Blueprint is currently accepting applications and our team is seeking talented entrepreneurs to join us for the Summer 2013 Program. A number of incredible entrepreneurs have traveled from as far as Shanghai, Dubai, and London to partake in our program. You may have seen some recent press coverage of four surgeons who founded Touch Surgery, a company that graduated with our Winter 2013 Class. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/feb/27/touch-surgery-ipad-app-surgeons-learn

We look forward to meeting the talent from Manchester.

Michael Maggio
Associate

Blueprint Health
483 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
cell: 781.864.6283
office: 646.627.7627 ext 703
mmaggio@blueprinthealth.org | blueprinthealth.org | @bphealth

Next  H 2.0 Manchester Meetup Thursday the 23rd of May: Care Homes and Assisted Living: in what ways technology can help?
Another great opportunity to discover new opportunities, be inspired and meet like minded people in a relaxed atmosphere.  Please see more details and update your RSVP HERE

Thank you and best regards
Idalia, Daniel, Mariano and Preeti

Health 2.0 Manchester - Leadership Team

Technology Cancer research to be aided by smartphone game developed at hackathon

From Wired:

Cancer cell

Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services developers will join academics this weekend for a hackathon that will see genetic data provided by Cancer Research UK transformed into a citizen science smartphone game app.

The game, provisionally called GeneRun, will allow the public to look for common changes in genes -- caused by a gain or loss of chromosomes -- that make up breast cancer tumours to help explain what mutations drive the cancer. The idea is to crowdsource scientific investigation that would otherwise take lab workers years to trawl through, and speed up targeted drug invention significantly.

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Source: BBC Radio 4 and the above from Wired by Liat Clark.