Grateful to everyone who made the recent NVIDIA, HealthUnity, and StartX Hackathon a success! ??
A huge thank you to our co-hosts at NVIDIA for providing cutting-edge tools and compute resource that powered the event. It was a great experience for the winning teams, organizers, and sponsors at NVIDIA Headquarter. Special thanks to Renee Y. Jennifer Ames Hoskins, Jack Resnick and team for hosting us!
StartX is the accelerator for startups founded by Stanford students, alumni, and professors, where our Hackathon is hosted. Thank Michael Niaki, Darsh Singh Mann, Pengpeng Wang and team for countless hours to make this event happen. Pablo Lleras and Micheal, your insights were incredibly inspiring to the participants.
HealthUnity, our volunteer-based community of AI experts, business leaders, and healthcare visionaries, is shaping the future of personal and population health. Thank you to all our volunteers for their tireless efforts! Our leaders Carmen Wiedenhoeft, Jun (Alex) Gao, Ramesh C Jain Paula Wall—your visionary speeches, leadership,and generous support were invaluable. Thanks to Iman Azimi, Mahyar Abbasian for OpenCHA, education sessions, Tech and organization POCs Mona Mahmoudi Matthew Liu Zejia Shao Jia(Vivian) Wang Sara Newsome, Ethan He, Ajan S, Elahe Khatibi, Herat Joshi, Kianoosh Kazemi, Mohammad Feli,Yong Huang, Allen Wu,Zhongqi Yang, Ziyu, Jean Hsu. for your contributions.
To our judges and speakers, your guidance and feedback will have a lasting impact on participants as they continue their journeys in healthcare and AI. Renee Yao , Carmen Wiedenhoeft, Wei Wei, Michael Niaki, Vishal Parikh (Hippocratic AI), Pablo Lleras, Vivien Ho(Pear VC), Chuka Esiobu (Define Ventures), Tamar Rudnick, Karen Matthys(Stanford University), John Alioto, Alex Gao, DeCarlos Love (Thrive AI Health) and Sooah Cho (SignalFire).
Congratulations to the winners!
-Revolutionizing Healthcare Administrative Workflows by Feynman Xu, Ph.D. and Zehao Li
-Specialist AI Nurses by Alex Arevalos PhD and Christopher Betz
-LLM-based Alzheimer’s Diagnosis by Blanca Romero Milà, Trisha Mendoza , and ?Venus (Soudeh) Mostaghimi
-Healthcare Data Access via Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources by Nithin Dhananjayan and Robert Ehteshamzadeh
To our sponsors— Accenture, Define Ventures, iHealth Labs, Paula Wall, and our tech and data sponsors, Google, CEREBRA, IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society, UCI-IFH, Artificial Intelligence Institute of South Carolina, University of Turku, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and HealthTech Hang, thank you for your generous support financially and open-source tools, datasets, and educational and community resources to empower participants.
The data, open-source code, and tools are now available at HealthUnity.org. ?? I hope this growing open community continues to inspire those passionate about the transformative impact of AI on healthcare. Let’s keep building! ??
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