Project & Program Updates
New Patient Safety Technology Winners Announced in October
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of the five sponsored events that took place this fall.
DivHacks provided a $200 award to MemorAI, winner of the patient safety track established through Pittsburgh Regional Heath Initiative's funding. DivHacks was held at Columbia University on September 23-24. MemorAIs is a platform where users can scan the prescription bottle label's intake directions to generate and download a .ics (iCalendar) file pre-configured with intake frequency, duration, and time information straight to their device. The goal is to help patients with medication adherence. Read more about the team's innovation in our blog here.
This year's University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Biomedical Data Science Hackathon theme was "Intelligent Safety: Pioneering Patient Safety Solution with AI/ML and Data Science." The Patient Safety Technology Challenge awarded three prizes at this year's event. First place went to Team Deep Sepsis, who received a $2,000 award. Team Deep Sepsis created PhLORENS, an AI-based application for early detection of sepsis in the ICU. Second place went to Sepsis Special Ops (SSO), who was awarded $1,500. Team "Hold the Line" won the $1,000 third place by exploring central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) within UAB electronic health records data. Read more about the event and the winning team's idea here.
The 9th annual Columbia Data Science Society Hackathon was held on October 7-8th. A $500 prize for the top patient safety idea was awarded to the team, Decoding Devices. The team used a dataset to understand the current state and create a solution for reduce errors related to medical devices.
HooHacks was an 8-hour ideathon held at the University of Virginia on October 14. Patient safety was one of the tracks offered to hackers and a workshop was facilitated by Dr. Justin Glasgow. The best patient safety idea – Inferomics - was awarded $500. Team members created a data insight platform that uses models trained on medical data to improve diagnosis.
The Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards took place on October 9 in Las Vegas, NV on one of the stages of the HLTH conference. Kimberly Street and Elizabeth Drye from NQF and Lance Baily from HealthySimulation.com served as judges, alongside dozens of other judges, to pick the best patient safety digital health solution from over 1,500 submissions. 8 semi-finalists and 4 finalists competed for the $10,000 patient safety prize. Medcrypt CEO, Mike Kijewski, took home the "Best in Class" Patient Safety prize. Medcrypt products are optimized for medical device manufacturers to build safe, secure, innovative medical devices faster while meeting FDA cybersecurity requirements.
Congratulations to the winning teams and thank you to the organizers of the events for including the issue of patient safety as an option for innovators and entrepreneurs to address with their solutions.
Read about past competitions involved in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge at the Patient Safety Technology Challenge website.
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