Skills Beyond the Reading Room: Training in Innovation and Collaboration at a Radiology Hackathon

Cooper, Kenneth W.; Siefert, Alyssa; Weinreb, Jeffrey C.

doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2017.10.025

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“…Silver et al defined a key goal of healthcare hackathons as providing educational value [ 8 ], an outcome evaluated in a number of small-scale, qualitative studies [ 13 , 14 ]. Indeed, when participants were prompted for motivating reasons they chose to attend Health++, the most frequently cited response ( n = 94/111, 84.7%) was to “[build] skills and [learn] new things.” Although lecture-based education was not an explicit focus beyond opening ceremony speakers and workshops, we see evidence of cross-disciplinary learning among teams (MLV = 4.91, medical-domain specific MLV = 5.38).…”

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“…While prior healthcare hackathons were largely faculty- or institution-driven [ 8 , 9 , 13 , 14 ], Health++ was predominantly student-run. Nonetheless, faculty endorsement and funding from university departments were critical in building the event’s reputation among industry sponsors and potential participants during the early stages of planning.…”

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Institutionalizing healthcare hackathons to promote diversity in collaboration in medicine

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BackgroundMedical students and healthcare professionals can benefit from exposure to cross-disciplinary teamwork and core concepts of medical innovation. Indeed, to address complex challenges in patient care, diversity in collaboration across medicine, engineering, business, and design is critical. However, a limited number of academic institutions have established cross-disciplinary opportunities for students and young professionals within these domains to work collaboratively towards diverse healthcare needs.MethodsDrawing upon best practices from computer science and engineering, healthcare hackathons bring together interdisciplinary teams of students and professionals to collaborate, brainstorm, and build solutions to unmet clinical needs. Over the course of six months, a committee of 20 undergraduates, medical students, and physician advisors organized Stanford University’s first healthcare hackathon (November 2016). Demographic data from initial applications were supplemented with responses from a post-hackathon survey gauging themes of diversity in collaboration, professional development, interest in medical innovation, and educational value. In designing and evaluating the event, the committee focused on measurable outcomes of diversity across participants (skillset, age, gender, academic degree), ideas (clinical needs), and innovations (projects).ResultsDemographic data (n = 587 applicants, n = 257 participants) reveal participants across diverse academic backgrounds, age groups, and domains of expertise were in attendance. From 50 clinical needs presented representing 19 academic fields, 40 teams ultimately formed and submitted projects spanning web (n = 13) and mobile applications (n = 13), artificial intelligence-based tools (n = 6), and medical devices (n = 3), among others. In post-hackathon survey responses (n = 111), medical students and healthcare professionals alike noted a positive impact on their ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, learn from individuals of different backgrounds, and address complex healthcare challenges.ConclusionsHealthcare hackathons can encourage diversity across individuals, ideas, and projects to address clinical challenges. By providing an outline of Stanford’s inaugural event, we hope more universities can adopt the healthcare hackathon model to promote diversity in collaboration in medicine.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-018-1385-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…We retrieved 127 publications from additional searches (ie, citation searching and the complementary open call), with a further 11 publications included in this review. In total, we included 42 studies in this review,7 8 18–57 with 39 studies (93%) focusing on developing social innovations 7 8 18–20 22–42 44–53 55–57. The PRISMA flowchart is presented in online supplemental figure 1.…”

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“…In total, 41 studies (98%) reported the number of designathon participants 7 8 18–53 55–57. The median number of individuals participating in designathons was 49 (IQR 34–90, range 6–434), and the median number of teams was 8 (IQR 5–14.5, range 2–40).…”

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“…The median number of individuals participating in designathons was 49 (IQR 34–90, range 6–434), and the median number of teams was 8 (IQR 5–14.5, range 2–40). In total, 30 studies (71%) included participants who were a mixture of health and non-health professionals 7 19–22 24 26 28–42 44 47 50–54 57. In total, 37 studies (88%) reported the duration of the intensive collaboration part, ranging from 3 hours to 7 days (online supplemental table 3).…”

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Designathons in health research: a global systematic review

Tieosapjaroen,

Chen,

Ritchwood

et al. 2024

BMJ Glob Health

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IntroductionA designathon is a three-stage participatory activity informed by design thinking. There is a growing literature on designathons in health. This study synthesised designathons’ effectiveness and implementation-related factors to address health challenges.MethodsWe searched Cochrane Library, Embase, PubMed, Scopus and the ClinicalTrials.gov registry for articles containing primary data on designathons for health from their dates of inception to 29 November 2022. We retrieved additional studies from citation searching and a complementary open call. We synthesised data on designathons’ effectiveness (ie, engagement, outputs and implementation), required resources and implementation-related factors (ie, resources, facilitators, barriers, strengths and limitations). We assessed the risk of bias using a checklist adapted from Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal tools.ResultsIn total, 4973 citations were identified, and 42 studies were included. In total, 26 studies (62%) were from high-income countries. The median number of total participants was 49, divided into a median of 8 teams. The duration of the intensive collaboration phase ranged from 3 hours to 7 days. Common evaluation criteria were feasibility, innovation and impact. Idea and prototype outputs included mobile phone applications, educational programmes and medical devices. Interventions developed from a designathon was estimated to be highly cost-effective. The most common facilitators were interdisciplinary participants and high-quality mentorship. The most common barriers were suboptimal execution of the events, difficulties in balancing interdisciplinary participants across teams and limited support for participants along the process. There were limited data on required resources and further implementation of solutions after designathons.ConclusionGiven designathons’ adaptability in terms of budget, mode of delivery, type of output and involvement of diverse participants, including end users, designathons can be implemented in a wide range of contexts to address various health issues.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42023389685.

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A classification of Challenges encountered in Complex Teamwork Settings

Kazemitabar

Lajoie

2022

Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn

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Skills Beyond the Reading Room: Training in Innovation and Collaboration at a Radiology Hackathon

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Institutionalizing healthcare hackathons to promote diversity in collaboration in medicine

Institutionalizing healthcare hackathons to promote diversity in collaboration in medicine

Designathons in health research: a global systematic review

A classification of Challenges encountered in Complex Teamwork Settings

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