48 Hours To Find A Healthcare Fix - Laura Ramos Hegwer

An annual healthcare hackathon at Mount Sinai Health System offers young technology entrepreneurs, computer scientists and engineers, medical and allied healthcare professionals and trainees a forum to seek innovative solutions that improve care. Leaders at Mount Sinai say they developed their health hackathon to cultivate an ecosystem that fosters multi- and transdisciplinary team-based health tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Along with fostering a culture of innovation, the organization seeks to generate new technologies in the hope that some may have commercial potential, said Scott Friedman, MD, dean of therapeutic discovery and chief of liver disease for the Mount Sinai Health System. Mount Sinai differentiates itself from some other organizations that host healthcare hackathons by offering participants a real-life, front-line connection to the challenges of managing patients within an academic healthcare setting. This year's Health Hackathon theme was cancer, which posed countless opportunities for problem-solving, said Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD, director of the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. "Software tools and devices that would help with patient navigation, disease monitoring, or even securing electronic consent for research studies would be extremely helpful and benefit patients," he said.

• Scott Friedman, MD, Dean, Therapeutic Discovery, Fishberg Professor, Medicine, Professor, Liver Diseases, Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Chief, Liver Diseases, The Mount Sinai Health System
• Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD, Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, Professor, Chair, Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Peter Backeris, Bioengineer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Janice Gabrilove, MD, Professor, Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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