MIT Hacking Medicine

http://hackingmedicine.mit.edu/

Last activity: 08.09.2025

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MIT Hacking Medicine’s mission is to infect, energize and teach healthcare entrepreneurship and digital strategies to scale medicine to attack and solve health problems globally.

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Jul 25, 2024	The 911 System: A Ticking Time Bomb in Crisis Response	** The 911 system is the lifeline of emergency response in the United States. It’s the first call made in a crisis, the bridge between chaos and help. Yet, this vital service is teetering on the edge of a crisis itself. The system, designed...
Jul 22, 2024	Duke launches $20M incubator to turn academic research into industry products	Photo: YinYang/Getty Images Duke-NUS Medical School is launching a $20 million incubator, LIVE Ventures, to help commercialize academic research projects and transform scientific breakthroughs into clinical applications. The incubator aims ...
Jun 2, 2020	Overjet raises $7.85M for its dental-focused AI tech	Overjet, a startup focused on using AI to help dentists and insurance companies understand dental scans, today announced that it has raised $7.85 million in what it describes as a seed round. According to Overjet’s CEO Wardah Inam (an MIT P...
Aug 3, 2017	How Boston has transformed itself into a powerful digital health ecosystem	In January 2016, a coalition of leaders including Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, and industry executives announced an initiative to invest in digital health. From the beginning of the initiative, Baker and o...
Jan 12, 2017	These 12 Startups Were Investor Darlings at Unpitch	Yesterday, I got a last-minute invite to the party at Unpitch, which in the past was super-secret and off limits to journalists not named Scott Kirsner. In other words, I got to do in person what I did over email, last year: Ask investors w...
Dec 16, 2015	How to win a healthcare hackathon before it starts (and after it’s over)	What Happened? The first day of the Hack, I gravitated towards Suelin Chen – a former consultant with an engineering doctorate who already had a startup in the works. Her concept, MyExitStrategy, centered around simplifying end-of-life plan...
Jun 19, 2015	New institute refines hackathon concepts for business	This new venture is not about building new technology, or launching new companies. It’s not about allowing hackers to organically gravitate toward one another to solve healthcare problems. It’s about taking a realistic, structured approach ...
May 19, 2015	An inside look at Hacking Medicine	The hack’s reputation is certainly building. Businesses are harnessing hackathon concepts to shake things up and catalyze more inventive product development. MIT is building out a HackMed Institute with exactly that thought in mind: Interfa...
Dec 17, 2014	What happens after a medical hackathon? Lessons from two winning projects	By Judy Wang Much has been written about the successes that result from medical hackathons, in which people from across the health care ecosystem converge to solve challenges. For example, PillPack, which formed out of MIT Hacking Medicine,...
Aug 5, 2014	What’s driving millennials to health tech?	By Judy Wang If you Google the term “millennials,” you’ll see that Google automatically fills in such search terms as “millennials lazy,” “millennials spoiled,” “millennials trophy kids” and “millennials entitled.” Ouch. As part of the Mayo...
Feb 4, 2014	With daily pill packets and smart software, PillPack redesigns the retail pharmacy experience	Robots and a good sense of design have changed the way pharmacist TJ Parker works – and the way his customers manage their prescriptions. Today he and co-founder Elliot Cohen are launching PillPack, a mail-order pharmacy aimed at making it ...
Feb 4, 2014	PillPack Takes On CVS And Walgreens By Mail, Launches A Full-Service, Subscription-Based Online Pharmacy	According to studies from the Mayo Clinic, more than 20 percent of Americans take more than five prescription medications each day. This fact goes a long way to showing how big of a role the pharmacy has come to play in millions of lives. W...
Jan 20, 2014	The 4 Winners of the Blue Button Innovation Challenge Changing the Face of Healthcare	In three days, 15 startups emerged, aimed at changing an industry that daily impacts every single individual. "What you guys are doing are transforming healthcare and changing lives," said Andrea Ippolito, co-leader of MIT Hacking...
Nov 12, 2013	Bringing everyone to the table: Hackathon brings a clinician’s dietary innovation to life	Finding meals a whole family can eat – including kids with food allergies – can be like solving a Rubik’s cube. By Tripp Underwood Elizabeth Hait, MD, MPH, wears many hats. She’s a physician, researcher, wife and mother just to name a few. ...
Oct 17, 2013	Can we hack our way to better healthcare?	By Tom Ulrich Hackathons are quickly growing beyond Red Bull- and Dorito-fueled code-fests into fertile grounds for new technologies and products that potentially could improve medicine and health care. But beyond individual events, could h...
Sep 12, 2013	Hacking pediatrics: Improving the patient experience	By Michael Docktor Michael Docktor, MD, is director of Clinical Mobile Solutions at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatric gastroenterologist with a research and clinical interest in inflammatory bowel disease. How do the most disruptiv...
	How Boston has transformed itself into a powerful digital health ecosystem	Boston skyline along the Harborwalk Note: This article is part of a series looking at digital health in cities across the country. As far as healthcare goes, Boston has historically focused on biotechnology, life sciences, and pharmaceutica...
	How to win a healthcare hackathon before it starts (and after it’s over)	Last April, I took part in the MIT Hacking Medicine’s GrandHack – a mad, weekendlong race to create business solutions to pressing healthcare problems. I went into the hack with few expectations. I emerged a winner, and part of a promising ...
	New institute refines hackathon concepts for business	In some ways, the freshly launched Hacking Medicine Institute is the anti-hackathon. The Institute, a 501c3 nonprofit, is meant to bring hackathon methodology to the business of healthcare – specifically, digital health. It’s a spinout from...
	An inside look at Hacking Medicine	There’s an element of performance anxiety when you’re doing anything in Cambridge: The city just has this palpable buzz of brainpower. This is particularly true when you gather 400-plus scientists, programmers, physicians and entrepreneurs ...
	With daily pill packets and smart software, PillPack redesigns the retail pharmacy experience	Robots and a good sense of design have changed the way pharmacist TJ Parker works – and the way his customers manage their prescriptions. Today he and co-founder Elliot Cohen are launching PillPack, a mail-order pharmacy aimed at making it ...

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Parsers VC has collected 22 articles mentioning MIT Hacking Medicine, among them “The 911 System: A Ticking Time Bomb in Crisis Response** **” (Jul 25, 2024) and “Duke launches $20M incubator to turn academic research into industry products” (Jul 22, 2024).

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