hack for health 2017 - final report

ORGANIZED BY

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Directory

Peter Kuhn Elvia Nunez

Martin Hunt Sara Ma

Louis Harboe Jack Whelan

Thuy Truong Jeremy Mason

Parker Malachowsky Lori Marx-Rubiner

Jan Liphardt AnneMarie Ciccarella

Lana Clay Michelle Je

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USC Michelson CenterFounding Director CSI-Cancer; CancerBase Co-Founder

CSI-Cancer Program Manager

CancerBase Technical LeadHack For Health Team Member

USC Iovine & Young AcademyCancerBase and Hack For Health Team Member


ArmMe - ERT Inc.Hack For Health Patient Advo-cate

Salt Cancer Initiative, Inc.FounderCancerBase & Hack For Health Lead

CancerBase Research LeadHack For Health Team Member


CancerBaseHack For Health Patient Advo-cate

CancerBase Co-Founder CancerBaseHack For Health Patient Advo-cate

Keck Graduate InstituteHack For Health Patient Advo-cate

USC Iovine & Young AcademyHack For Health Team Member

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Directory

Angela Wu Erica Muhl

David Hodge Lawrence Lau

Daniel Kent

Martin Shapiro Tam Vu

Dr. Jorge Neiva

Anthony Aylward Ann Greenberg

Dr. Jerry Lee

Chloe Chan

Sean LimKara Defrias



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USC Iovine & Young AcademyHack For Health Team Member

Dean of USC Roski School of Arts and USC Iovine and Young AcademyHack For Health Judge

Founder at EmbarkHack For Health Mentor

USC Stevens Center for InnovationAssociate DirectorHack for Health Judge

ArmMe - ERT Inc.Project ManagerHack for Health Speaker

Keck Medical Student Hack For Health Team Member

University of Colorado Assistant ProfessorHack for Health Speaker

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer CenterAssociate Professor, OncologistHack for Health Judge

UC San Diego Graduate StudentHack For Health Volunteer

Sceneplay, Inc.CEO/FounderHack for Health Judge

National Cancer InstituteHealth Science DirectorHack for Health Speaker


USC Dornsife - BiophysicsHack For Health Videographer

White House Office UI/UX Lead Cancer MoonshotHack for Health Judge & Speaker

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StatisticsParticipants

Registration

50 Students

185 Registrants!

Sophomore

Freshman

Senior

Junior

Graduate

9 Completed Projects

5 Cancer Survi- 5 Cancer Survivors

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“People

I believe that the best way to harness technology is either by saving someone’s life or making them happy. HackForHealth is a platform promot-ing the same. So I would definitely love to be a part of it!

– Harshita

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6“I’m constantly - and relentlessly - in pursuit of empowering individuals through design and technology. My work process occupies a unique space between empathy and creativity; I’m passionate about building tools that improve the quality of life for all people. Through HackForHealth, I want to connect with patients to better understand their stories and deliver innovative solutions to pressing challenges, as well as work in a collaborative environment to create positive impact.

– Deanna Lam

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Event DiaryDAY 1• The event starts at 5pm with the speakers and 50 participants

• The opening ceremony is coordinating by Lana, Sara, Vincent, Parker, Sean, Thuy, Martin

Hunt, Martin Shapiro, Angela, and Michelle

• David Hodge, the MC for the Opening Ceremony, shares his journey from a USC student

& Hackathon organizer to an entrepreneur

• Lana Clay tells her life story as a cancer survivor of 25 years since the age of 3

• Dr. Jorge Nieva gives a quick overview of cancer biology, treatments, and data science

• Daniel Kent shares how he built a medical technology company out of a Hackathon pro-

ject that was eventually acquired by ERT

• Thuy closes the ceremony with advice, logistics, and an announcement of the prizes

• Hacking participants form teams and retreat to team rooms for a long night of hacking!

• Mentors and organizers circulate among teams and discuss ideas

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Event DiaryDAY 2

• Martin, Thuy, and Parker run the night shift until 7am

• Breakfast is delivered to the hacking rooms by Louis and Chloe in the morning

• Some of the teams decide to move to TRF to work closer with the mentors (and food!)

• Kathleen hosts a Yoga class for cancer patients and hackers

• Lunch is served with a talk by Jan Lipphadt

• Hackers continue discussion with Dr. Jorge Nieva and patients

• Dinner is served with talk by AnnieMarie, follow by more discussions to fine tune prod-

uct and presentation

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Event DiaryDAY 3

• Teams submit their projects electronically at noon!

• ● Kara DeFrias arrives and gives a talk during lunch

• ● First round of judging: all team present. Judges: Ann Greenberg, Professor Peter Kuhn,

Lori Marx-Rubiner, Thuy Truong

• ● Closing Ceremony coordinates include Martin Shapiro, Martin Hunt, Parker, Michelle,

Angela, Thuy, Lori

• ● Lana is the MC for the Closing Ceremony

• ● Peter delivers a keynote about CancerBase with Jerry Lee (who is joined over Skype)

• ● The finalists are announced and present to the final panel. Final panel includes Kara

• DeFrias, Professor Peter Kuhn, Lawrence Lau, Dean Erica Muhl, and Dr. Jorge Nieva.

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Completed ProjectsWINNER - 1st PLACE

WINNER - 2nd PLACE

WINNER - 3rd PLACE

FINALIST FINALIST FINALIST

Storyline

Infusion

Cure Recruiter

Know Your Health CEEG Team Trojans

“Our application empowers patients to manage their medical prescriptions. Users take pictures of their medications, and the app uses computer vision to find them in FDA databases, providing an easy sum-mary of information they care about. Drug entries will be sorted in a timeline to easily keep track of medication history, effectiveness, and side effects.”

“Infusion is a smart chemotherapy app that reduces the stress in planning life around infusions. In each cycle, we help patients track their symptoms with the same scale used by doctors. Next, we analyze the cycle of symptoms—helping them predict how they’ll feel on any day in the future, and optimizing the schedule so they can schedule life events with confidence.”

“We are a mobile platform for clinical trials to recruit from a pool of patients based on eligibility. Patients can match with clinical trials they are interested in, and clinic sites have a platform to communicate with them.”

“A mobile app that digitizes and standardizes medical record using Optical Char-acters Recognition, match patients with clinical trials, and enhance the patient healthy daily habits. The app filters only relevant data based on the patient’s type of cancer.”

“We are proposing an inte-grated EEG platform with Bluetooth capability that can help caretakers monitor their own quality of life.”

“A platform for the cancer patients to the right buddy at the first shot and not hav-ing to go through manual searching.”

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H-JAM Vans USCTechies

“We aim to pair people suffering from cancer with those suffering from men-tal illnesses. We aim to fa-cilitate quality relationships available to cancer patients by providing curated infor-mation from a caregivers perspective.”

“We are developing a so-cial networking application for individuals to spread knowledge pertaining to macro and day to day issues of cancer. The objective of this application is to pro-vide a platform to support the exchange of informa-tion and communicate with individuals going through similar situations. We want to promote social interac-tions by helping individuals find support groups and foster relationships through forums and one to one chat services.”

“Keeping the patient care as the focus, we have tried to develop an android app which monitors the users mobility, nutrition supply of the patient, notes his moods, keeps reminders of patients’ medication and other such parameters.”

“Because the great things we do in science and medicine need to be better shared and made accessible to the people that need it most, the patients. Our access to large amounts of data and our universal connectedmess as human beings offer possibilities to improve the human condition like no other time in history.

– Alexander Ring

HONORABLE MENTION HONORABLE MENTION HONORABLE MENTION

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1st Place - Storyline

A timeline for tracking all medication

Supplemental medication data imported directly from FDA database

Automatically scans medications and identifies label names and dosages

Leverages computer vision and web technologies

Take a picture of your drug

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2nd Place - Infusion

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3rd Place - Cure Recruiter

Solving the clinical trial patient matching problem Increase accrual rates for trials

Offer more patients access to clinical trials

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Finalists

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Letters from Patients

Welcome to Hack 4 Health!

I’m going to guess that each of us knows someone who has or has had cancer, a relative or friend, perhaps even you. You probably know more than one person. In the US, statistics suggest that nearly 50% of us will have a cancer diagnosis in our lifetime. We have no idea whether it might be you or the person sitting next to you. We don’t know if it will be a minor inconvenience of a cancer or one that is life-threatening. We do know that the cancer burden in this country, and across the globe, is growing year by year.

If you’ve seen cancer up close, you know it’s overwhelming and scary. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t joy and hope. There is a great deal of the latter, at least for me and most of the people I know. And that despite the fact that my cancer has spread throughout my body where it can now kill me.

Just yesterday I flew home from a major cancer research conference, where I attended days of meetings and countless poster sessions looking for new ideas in cancer research. While there were certainly some promising learnings, we are still a very long way from being able to stop the disease from taking my life. And yet I came away hopeful – that maybe something will extend it, and just maybe the next generation will see significant improvements in cancer care and treat-ment, maybe cancer can be rendered a chronic, livable disease.

My hopes lie with you as well. Your ideas and innovations, the spark of your imaginations, your creativity – they will make a difference. Whether it is looking at a single cell, the global burden of cancer, or something in between, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done. You may choose to focus on prevention, detection, disease management, treatment, or something alto-gether different.

You’re here – you’ve stepped up. For this I am so grateful.

Enjoy the next 48 hours! Dream big and reach for the possible. The entire H4H team is here to help you change the world for everyone touched by cancer.

Hack On!

Lori Marx-Rubiner

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Dear Hackers,

My name is Lana and I grew up in Orange County, California. I began life as a very inquisitive and energetic child. Until one day, when I came home from daycare and my mother noticed that I had an excess amount of bruises all over my legs. That week started a month long voyage back and forth to my pediatrician. Initially doctors told my parents that I was anemic. A few iron supplements later and no improvement. My symptoms began to worsen. Then something very peculiar happened, I couldn’t stand up for myself. I was sitting down in a gro-cery store aisle told my parents that my legs don’t work. Another trip to the pediatrician and my parents were told by physicians that I was jealous of my little sister, I was being dramatic and trying to divert attention from her. A week later I subsequently ended up in the emer-gency room. That day my parents were told, “Lana has cancer”. I went through an intensive and extremely long protocol.

My childhood and young adolescents were greatly affected by my diagnosis, including physical and psychological impairments. I compartmentalized my experiences as a coping mechanism. I didn’t want to remember my experiences with cancer. I wanted to be “normal”. I hated being known as the girl who had cancer.

Until I was in college, I went horribly out of my way to hide all my physical scars from cancer. I was afraid that the world would see me as defective. I eventually realized that I needed to share my experiences and embrace my survivorship. Today, I can confidently say that shar-ing my story with the world has been my biggest accomplishment in life.

My survivorship has also empowered me to immerse myself in my studies. My education includes three Masters Degrees in Public Health Professions Education, Community Health Development, and Business of Bioscience. I am additionally completing my Doctorate in Epidemiology, specifically quantifying health data through technological modalities. My ed-ucation paired with my survivorship now allows me to offer a unique perspective to cancer community members.

Cancer tried to take my mobility, my internal peace, my confidence, and most of all my future. I know, together we can create innovations that will lead future cancer survivor generations into a prosperous life! Thank you for your creativity, knowledge and tenacity.

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivor,

Lana Nicole Rose Clay

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Media

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Photos

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Next Time!

What could be done better?• The location of the Hackathon was the biggest issue. There were two hackathons happening

in the same weekend, so we could not get all the rooms in one building. Next time we will

consider using the new Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences to host the Hackathon

and address some of the logistics.

• Breakfast: participants would have preferred a hot food over snacks

• Recruitment can be improved with more online marketing (Facebook) and offline workshops

to attract more participants

• Parking details for speakers and special guests should be organized at least one week be-

fore the event

Future Plans• CancerBase Monthly Meetup for people who are interested in using technology in cancer

treatments and research innovation to meet/network with cancer patients and doctors

• Every six months should organize a Hackathon at USC and one other University or Corporate

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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS

Date of Report: 03/29/2017Prepared by Thuy T Truong & Martin Hunt

Design by Chloe Chan, Michelle JePhotos by Mike Glier, USC Dornsife Communications

Hack for Health - OrganizerUSC Kuhn Laboratory

3430 S Vermont Ave, TRF 114, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Email: [email protected]

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