Over the next week, we will be on site at all of the Health Data and Innovation Week events in Washington, D.C. People from all over the United States are gathering in our nation’s capital to bring together ideas, provoke conversations, and plan steps for advancing health and care through innovation. This is the second year for the week-long celebration, and several of the activities are once again taking place right at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health.
The action kicks off Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3, with a Health 2.0 Code-a-Thon—a coding competition designed around using big data to build exciting new applications and tools to improve health care. This year’s focus is Preventing Obesity. Professional technologists, researchers and students are expected to participate in a fun two days of, according to the press materials, “rapid prototyping and creative health hacking.” Cash offers additional motivation, with a total of $10,000 in prize money to be awarded.
After the Code-a-Thon, the week’s activities also include HealthCa.mp/DC and the Walking Gallery on June 4; Health DataPalooza June 5-6; and on June 7, a mHealth event with NASA on health applications benefiting life in space and on earth (how cool is that?!). Some of these events are open to the public. A calendar for the week’s activities can be found here. For more information, visit www.healthinnovationweek.org.
Follow the conversation all week long on Twitter at hashtag #dchealth. You can even watch the live tweet stream in the right margin of this page for real-time updates (including our own; follow us @kptotalhealth). And check back here for more previews of what’s to come in D.C. this week.
