Transforming Healthcare Innovation Challenge Launched
TU Dublin, Tallaght University Hospital, and AWS have announced October 4th and 5th as the dates for the Transforming Healthcare Innovation Challenge. Previously known as the Health Hackathon, this year's event will challenge students from different disciplines across TU Dublin's extensive campus network in Dublin City, Tallaght and Blanchardstown.
Students from disciplines including Computing, Social Care Practice, Health, and Sports Science across TU Dublin will be presented with five different challenges set by healthcare professionals working in TUH and the community.
Working together as a team, students from different disciplines will have the opportunity to meet with healthcare professionals on October 4th, who will set the challenges and answer any questions they have about them.
The students then have the night and the following morning to create a solution and pitch the idea to a panel of judges. The presentations are judged on the prototype, the context of the concept, how it addresses the challenge set, and the presentation itself being scored.
The winning projects will be selected from four award categories: Innovation with the Greatest Potential, Best Use of Technology, Innovation with the Greatest Patient Benefit, and Most Innovative Solution.
Speaking about the event, Thomas Stone, Vice President of Partnerships at TU Dublin, said, “This event really aligns with TU Dublin’s strategic intent of People, Planet and Partnership creating a better world together. Our students enjoy using their skills to solve real impactful challenges and it supports our value of supporting bright minds and creativity. Past participants have won national prizes for their project work and some of the challenges are still being progressed and further developed by the students.” Thomas Stone Vice President, Partnerships, TU Dublin.
“This event is really developing and I am delighted to see the inclusion of our healthcare colleagues in the community as well as students from different disciplines. It is only by working together across the healthcare journey of a patient and involving different experiences can we develop the best solutions to the challenges set for this event but also for healthcare delivery in the longer term.” Lucy Nugent, Chief Executive Officer, TUH.
“We look forward to this event each year and are delighted to see students from different disciplines involved for the first time. Setting a real-life challenge for students and offering them support for using AWS technologies to tackle those challenges is an incredible learning opportunity,” said Joanne Reynolds, Community Engagement Manager at AWS.
Students can register for the event here.
More about the Transforming Healthcare Innovation Challenge
A Transforming Health event is a two-day event aimed at finding solutions to clinical problems defined by clinicians from Tallaght University Hospital (TUH). It is hosted in collaboration with AWS in Communities and involves students from a wide range of disciplines, not just computing, from TU Dublin
Key Components of the Event:
Event Focus:
- Students work in teams of 3-4 to develop prototypes addressing real-world health problems.
- Clinicians from TUH define these problems beforehand.
- AWS in Communities people and TUH clinicians serve as the judging panel.
Workshops and Presentations:
- Participants will attend keynote speeches and technical presentations to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to develop their solutions.
- These sessions will help guide students through the prototype development process.
Goal:
- Each team presents their solution to the problem, along with a working prototype.
- The event aims to produce innovative proposals and prototypes that address health challenges.
Opportunities and Perks:
- The event offers a chance to potentially continue the project as part of a 4th-year project.
- It is a valuable CV-building experience.
- Prizes will be awarded to the top teams.
- Food and refreshments are provided.
Registration Details:
- Open to all TU Dublin students, not just computing students.
- Teams can consist of 3-4 students, and individuals can register to be placed into teams if needed.
- The Transforming Health event will take place on the Tallaght campus.
This event provides a multidisciplinary approach to solving healthcare problems, offering practical, real-world experience and collaboration opportunities across different fields of study.
The 2024 Transforming Health event is a two-day event (schedule below) that aims to provide solutions to real clinical problems, which have been defined by Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) Clinicians. Over the two days, you will experience keynote and technical presentations, providing you with all of the requirements and skills needed to develop the prototypes and take part in the event. The end goal is a presentation with a proposal to solve the clinician-defined problems, with some level of prototyping completed. AWS and TUH Clinicians will be part of the judging panel.
Some noteworthy points:
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This is also an opportunity to possibly continue the clinician-defined problem as a 4th-year project.
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Food and refreshments are provided
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Prizes for the top-ranking teams
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Excellent opportunity for CV experience
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Prior to the event, the clinician's problems will be released
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The event will take place on the Tallaght campus
Interested in registering?
The 2024 Transforming Health event is open to teams of 3 to 4 students from all three TU Dublin campus locations. If you do not have a team but would like to participate, please register as a single student. We will try to create teams if we have enough individual applications!
Students can register for the event here.