Pitt Challenge

Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Register a .Tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend for your chance to win an awesome Domain.com branded prize for you and each member of your team! Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. The more creative the domain the better!<br>

Most Creative Use of GitHub

GitHub is one of the best ways to collaborate, push code, get feedback, and show the world what you’ve built during a hackathon. To take it a step further, GitHub is now offering you access to industry tools, events &amp; learning resources through something called GitHub Global Campus. Win this weekend’s Most Creative Use of GitHub prize category, first by signing up for GitHub Global Campus and second by using a GitHub repository to host your hackathon project’s code! Make sure your use of GitHub stands out with a detailed ReadMe page, meaningful pull requests and collaboration history, and even a GitHub pages deployment!<br><br>

Best Sustainability Hack sponsored by Avanade

Avanade has put sustainable tech at the forefront of their ongoing mission! Sustainability is about conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources and focusing efforts to reduce and improve the environmental impact of technology, processes, and operations on our planet and society. For your hackathon project, we want you to make a genuine human impact using your ingenuity to address sustainability through an innovative use of technology. Demonstrate how you can create a more sustainable future and help the environment. As an added bonus, the team with the best sustainability hack will be rewarded with awesome lego sets!<br>

Best Use of Velo by Wix

Best Accessibility Hack sponsored by Fidelity

Honorable Mention

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Overall 2nd Place

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Overall 3rd Place

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Overall 1st Place

Imported Challenge from Devpost Prize Winner

Big Data and Machine Learning

Prize - JBL Flip 5 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Data is being generated at an incredible rate. Though these data sets may have been created for a specific purpose, leveraging data to develop other products is an incredible opportunity. Managing data has been more and more difficult. With the advent of machine learning, these data can be leveraged as training sets to automatically process data. Our challenge to you is to find the ways that big data and machine learning to make advances in healthcare.

Patient Engagement

Prize - Amazon Echo Show 8 Patients experience better outcomes if they understand what is happening with their health. Our challenge to you is to utilize technology to help patients stay engaged in their health.

Health Equity and Diversity

$500 Cash Prize. Racial, socioeconomic, and geographic factors play a part in who has reliable and consistent access to healthcare. Ensuring equitable access is not only the right thing to do but allows a broader portion of society to get access to promising new potential therapies, and contribute to scientific advancement. Think about how technology can help open doors beyond typical wealthy and white clinical trial participants. Be mindful that language barriers and technological proficiency impact many communities.

Where Digital Doesn’t Work

$500 Cash Prize. It might seem a bit counterintuitive to consider solutions outside of digital for a Hackathon focused on digital health, but it’s critical to consider serving patients that may not have access to smartphones, wi-fi or laptops - or may not possess technological literacy. How do we implement solutions to keep patients engaged and reach out to diverse communities when the commonly used tech might be limited? Think about things like - underserved patients without devices, rural communities without reliable internet, patients with limited or no proficiency in English, etc.

Patient Safety Tech

$500 Cash Prize. Do no harm. Medical errors are responsible for more than 250,000 deaths each year, making it the third leading cause of death annually in the United States. Misread instructions, incorrect doses, and wrong site surgeries are all examples of medical error that can occur across the healthcare continuum. Supporting the practice and workflow of clinicians, using data to double check processes, and empowering patients to play a proactive role in their care can improve care. Our challenge to you is to leverage technology to improve the safety of patients.

Lifestyle as Medicine

Prize - Honeywell HPA100 True HEPA Air Purifier. Patients spend 99.9% of their lives outside of healthcare clinics. Our challenge to you is to incorporate activities of daily living such as nutrition, sleep, mental health, and exercise as key components of both health and everyday life.

Increasing Health Literacy

Prize - Kodak Flik X7 HD Home Theater LED Projector Health literacy has been a major point of contention in past years. Many announcements from the scientific community have had mixed uptake. Common issues have revolved around COVID, vaccines, and infection prevention. However, improving health literacy is a long standing opportunity in the US. Complicating the situation, there is a significant amount of information online that is created to sell products that have no scientific basis. Our challenge to you is to create robust solutions to help improve health literacy for COVID and beyond.

Going Face-to-facetime

Prize - Amazon Echo Show Healthcare used to be synchronous, face-to-face, or a game of phone tag. Our challenge to you is to create future of healthcare when we leverage technology to fit the lives of patients and clinicians instead of the other way around.

Virtual Medical Simulation

Prize - JBL Live Pro 2 Noise-Canceling True Wireless In-Ear Headphones (Black). In the past year, clinicians, patients, and healthcare students have shifted in-person experiences canceled due to the risk of COVID spread. Virtual medical simulations have become more and more important in helping multiple stakeholders when an in-person option isn’t available. Other fields have leveraged virtual simulations for years. Flight simulators have helped pilots and astronauts gain crucial experience and robotic surgery simulators have helped surgeons train their hands without a human under the knife. Our challenge to you is to find new ways can we leverage technology to help clinicians, patients, or learners leverage more realities.