Hacking Health

Hacking Health is an experiment in collaboration. Their hypothesis is that the interface of front-line clinicians and technology experts will yield innovative approaches to some (not all) of healthcare’s most entrenched problems. By rapidly building and testing prototypes, they can identify the fraction of ideas that have the potential to scale and at the same time, allow others to take their learnings and apply them to new ideas. Their goal is to make this experimentation as low risk as possible for everyone involved - the individual participants, organizers, and supporters. At Hacking Health, they aim to create spaces for collaborative, interdisciplinary experimentation. They bring together health professionals and technologists to work together to prototype and problem-solve new ways to deliver healthcare. It’s a high-energy, messy process with no guarantee of success, but plenty of opportunity for new ideas and teams to form. The outcomes are probabilistic not determinate. They define success as making it easier to step to the edge of one’s field and increasing the probability of interfacing with another perspective that yields an innovative approach. Their underlying mission is learning how to interface pioneers across diverse fields in real and meaningful collaborations.

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