{"id":20351,"date":"2015-03-19T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=20351"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:50:51","slug":"uconn-yale-hackathon-competing-for-better-health-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/03\/uconn-yale-hackathon-competing-for-better-health-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn-Yale Hackathon: Competing For Better Health Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can we make hospitals better for patients and reduce the number of readmissions?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the challenge of the 2015 Patient Experience Hackathon: Improving Recovery and Reducing Readmissions, a competition organized by\u00a0the University of Connecticut, the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), and\u00a0the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hackathon-poster.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20362 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hackathon-poster.png\" alt=\"Hackathon poster\" width=\"372\" height=\"483\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 372px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 372\/483;\" \/><\/a>The Spring 2015 Hackathon will be held at Yale University\u00a0March 27-29. Participants will be challenged to develop tools and strategies to improve the patient experience and reduce hospital readmissions. In addition, there will be a Data Marathon Track in which teams will build digital tools and analytics that leverage data and expertise on readmission from the Yale Center for Outcomes Research. Applications are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>This gathering of forward thinking patients, providers, payers, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs will serve as a foundation for disruptive ideas that can positively shape the patient experience and reduce readmission rates for the future.<\/p>\n<p>This event is led jointly by the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), the University of Connecticut and MIT Hacking Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule: <br \/>March 27. 6:00pm &#8211; 8:00pm. Kickoff, Speakers, and Networking (open to public)<br \/>March 28. 9:30am &#8211; 7:00pm. Keynote, Pitches, Team Formation, Hacking <br \/>March 29. 9:00am &#8211; 3:00pm. Hacking, Final Presentations <br \/>Yale University<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbitcorehack.org\/\">event website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students compete to hack a better way to healthcare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":20362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[49],"class_list":["post-20351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:05:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20351"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=20351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}