FINALS NIGHT – Thurs 18th Aug
After a few days of rest it was onto finals night for our top 5 teams, ready to pitch their solution to a new panel of experts. The difficult task of deciding a winner lay upon the shoulders of our expert judges John Konstantopoulos, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Artrya Ltd; Charlie Gunningham, Director of Innovation at Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation; Kate Lewkowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Neurotologix; and Dr Simon Graindorge, COO of OncoRes Medical.
We were also joined by the Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC who gave an opening address as well as Nasir David, Director Data and Information Systems at WA Department of Health who discussed transforming health data access. We then heard from Nicole O’Connor, WA/SA Public Sector Sales Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Ed Lewis, Director Data and Analytics at idoba.
A massive congratulations to the winners of the 2022 WA Health Hackathon – HACKULES! Well done to Broderick McCallum-Hee, Keaton Wright, Riley Croxford on all your hard work and for delivering a fantastic healthcare solution! The winners took home $10,000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits and $5000 cash thanks to idoba.
Hackules tackled ‘Early Detection of Sepsis’ and came up with a data-driven model that can identify patients at risk of developing sepsis. Using emergency department/hospital data and triage notes they were able to detect potential sepsis cases quickly so clinicians can make informed decisions for patient care. This solution has the potential to be easily integrated into current processes to identify at-risk patients earlier, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes.
Congratulations to our runners up who were equally impressive in their solutions – Team Eliiza, who developed a Hospital Operations Planning Engine (HOPE) to help address burnout and stress among doctors and nurses with automated and efficient hospital systems. And also to the SQLizers who developed a dashboard highlighting mental health distress changes across various demographics to improve mental health initiatives.
Well done to all of our hackathon teams, you should be so proud of what you’ve achieved in such a short amount of team. We were blown away by the calibre of solutions put forward, and we hope to see some of these progress into real healthcare solutions for WA.
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THANK YOU
Special thanks to our event collaborators Tracey Wilkinson and the MTPConnect WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub Team for supporting us with the planning and programming of the 2022 WA Health Hackathon.
Thank you to all of the challenge owners for supporting this event – Lindsay Rowe, Innovation Manager at East Metropolitan Health Service; Dr Matthew Anstey, Intensivist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital; Ear Science Institute Australia; Peta Grayson, Senior Project officer, Innovation and Development Hub, North Metropolitan Health Service; and WA Primary Health Alliance.
Thank you to all of the speakers, judges and workshop facilitators who have shared their expertise throughout the week. You’ve shared knowledge, insights and inspiration and we’ve truly valued your contribution.
Special thanks to the Hon. Stephen Dawson MLP who joined us at both the launch and finals night. We’re very appreciative to have the ongoing support of the WA State government, and we’re excited to see the outcomes that can come out of the McGowan government’s investment into innovation, digitisation and data security.
Last but not least, thank you to our amazing event partners who have made this fantastic event possible – Amazon Web Services (AWS), idoba, Perth Biodesign, Perth Angels, Spacecubed, Telethon Kids Institute, and the Data Science Club of UWA.
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WHAT’S NEXT?
WADSIH and our event collaborators, MTPConnect WA life Sciences Hub (WALSIH), have a shared commitment to furthering innovation in the healthcare sector through the use of data and AI. We will be working with all Hackathon teams to ensure they have the opportunity to move their solutions forward and continue the conversation with their respective domain experts. The Hackathon participants represent a huge pool of data-specialist talent that can be utilised by the health sector, and we hope to nurture this in the months ahead.
If you have any questions about the 2022 WA Health Hackathon, or if you’re interested in taking part next year, reach out the WADSIH team