We have just been notified of an opportunity for women entrepreneurs in science/tech/healthcare. (One of our alumna has been invited as a judge, and would love to see some Boilermaker representation!). The Challenge has just opened to virtual participants, so there is no travel involved. I have included what information I have (below). If you are interested, please check it out – and feel free to share broadly. In addition to the competition itself, the event intends to plug women health entrepreneurs into resources available through the SBA — equally relevant in Indiana as Texas.

 

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The Texas Healthcare Challenge is a competition inviting teams across diverse backgrounds to compete for cash and in-kind prizes by creating solutions for various healthcare problems. Attendees will meet, ideate around a problem set, iterate, and receive mentoring. This type of healthcare hacking brings together like-minded innovators who may be students, tech experts, researchers, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and healthcare professionals. At the conclusion, teams will pitch their solutions to a panel of judges and the audience for the opportunity to win one of the top prizes.

  

Event info & Schedule: https://texashealthcarechallenge.com/schedule

 

Teams will Pitch on these Track Themes

 

 

What are the judging criteria?

•                  Innovation: Is there impressive use of cutting-edge technology? Is the hack tackling a new problem? If an existing problem, is the hack approaching it with a significant new idea / technology?

•                  Health Impact: How much better is this than the current standard of care? Does it contribute to patient care improvements in a clear way? How big is the potential benefit to patients if the project was developed? How much end user research have they conducted or plan to conduct?

•                  Business Model: How does this innovation compete with what is or might be on the market? Is there a clear revenue model? Have they identified hypotheses, assumptions, or low-cost experiments they can perform? Will an end-user pay for this or be attracted to use it?

•                  Presentation: Was the presentation exciting? Did the outcome of the hack surprise you? Is the storytelling visually appealing? Did they use their 3 minutes wisely? Did this team come-in with a pre-existing project?

•                  IBM Sponsor Prize: Best use of Watson APIs or best solution developed on the cloud.

 

Event info & Schedule: 

https://texashealthcarechallenge.com/schedule

 

Sponsors for the Event:

 

Teams will Pitch on these Track Themes

 

More about the event on LinkedIn.