{"id":20657,"date":"2015-04-13T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:47:50","slug":"hacking-for-health-at-the-2015-patient-experience-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/04\/hacking-for-health-at-the-2015-patient-experience-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking For Health At The 2015 Patient Experience Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you improve the patient experience? For starters, get more than 240 participants to hack out a solution.<\/p>\n

That was the goal of the 2015 Patient Experience Hackathon: Improving Recovery and Reducing Readmissions, organized by the University of Connecticut, the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), and the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). The event challenged participants to come up with a way to make hospitals a better experience for patients and reduce the number of readmissions.<\/p>\n

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The team Pill Clique, featuring UConn’s Elizabeth Pouya (second from left), which won for Best Presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UConn\u2019s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consortium served as one of the sponsors of the event, which was held at Yale.\u00a0The Consortium\u2019s co-director, Hadi Bozorgmanesh, professor-in-residence in the School of Engineering, said the Hackathon was the first of its kind in the state and that he expects UConn will host similar events in the near future.<\/p>\n

Participants came from around the country and included students, doctors and other professionals. Of these, 45 were from UConn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on an app that\u2019s supposed to help children with their food allergies,\u201d said Michelle Custeau a manager at an insurance company in Boston, adding that the device keeps track of their food intake. \u201cIt\u2019s a fun game, so they stick with it, and it allows parents to keep track of what their kids are eating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next to her was teammate Lior Trestman. The competition was ending in a few hours\u00a0and Trestman didn\u2019t have time to look away from his computer \u2013 it was his job to work out the technological details of the project. \u201cHe\u2019s been here all night,\u201d Custeau said. She was the part of the team that worked on the business model and figuring out how to sell it to investors.<\/p>\n

It was INcentiHALER \u2013 a team made up mostly of Yale students \u2013 who took the top $500 prize. They came up with a new inhaler, one designed to measures breaths, and be easier to use. After working more on their projects, teams will return April 23 to compete for a $3,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n

UConn didn\u2019t walk away empty-handed, though. The team Pill Clique, which includes UConn\u00a0student Elizabeth Pouya ’17, won $200 for best presentation. Their creation is an app that essentially helps women take their birth control bills by turning it into a competition between the user and other female friends using the app.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe app keeps track of who was least successful in adhering to taking their\u00a0birth control\u00a0and\u00a0ranks the group members at the end of each week,\u201d Pouya said. \u201cOur goal with Pill Clique was to help remind females to take\u00a0their birth control\u00a0in a fun way that incorporated lifestyle factors. Essentially, Pill Clique gives female friends an incentive to take their BC by turning it into a game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn and Yale team up to hash out some healthcare-improving ideas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":24178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-20657","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":"2026-07-20 01:10:25","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\/20657","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=20657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/24178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20657"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=20657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}