GE Healthcare was on a mission to provide affordable healthcare to the masses. Having identified the problems and key areas of innovation, GE followed an interesting approach of crowdsourcing digital solutions through hackathons.
For the past two decades, GE Healthcare has been innovating to enhance affordability and access to healthcare solutions in India.
GE Healthcare focuses on early, pre-symptomatic disease detection and prevention—as against late diagnosis—thus helping clinicians access more information and intervene sooner with targeted treatment.
GE Healthcare partnered with HackerEarth with the clear vision of collaborating with the developer community to develop affordable, digital healthcare solutions.
The three themes for this hackathon were based on specific problems the Indian rural healthcare sector faces.
An application based on Video Content Analytics (VCA) that captures faces and movements of patients to identify emotions from facial expressions
A mobile-based application for clinicians to navigate the decision tree (specific to patients) based on
It allows doctors to follow the protocols and provide recommendations from external sources such as the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM).
A vision-based, patient-monitoring system to address the following:
The Grand Finale was held on April 2017.
The three winning teams worked with GE to develop their ideas further and build a fully-functional prototype. The winning team was awarded a cash prize of $6000.
GE would provide the winning solution as part of its affordable healthcare technology to the people who need it the most.
