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Despite being the most technologically advanced field in medicine, intensive care medicine lacks essential automation in pre-processing the high volume-velocity data generated. However, effectively analyzing and utilizing this complex data can support the detection of life-threatening patient conditions and enable automated monitoring of a large number of patients. Consequently, this would allow relieving the burden from physicians and enable them to spend more time with patients. Current research trends use this data volume and elaborate machine learning algorithms to extract and target the patterns present there to predict critical phases, understand complex diseases and provide smart assistance functions.
Therefore, we are pleased to organize the First Aachen EIT Health Hackathon (F.A.I.T.H) with our partners EIT Health, MIT Critical Data, Clinomic GmbH, the Universitätsklinikum Aachen - Klinik für Operative Intensivmedizin und Intermediate Care and TechLabs Aachen e.V. to give Health Care Professionals/Data Scientists/Students from the EIT Health Community and local universities the first insight into this exciting and vital field.
The Digital Church in Aachen
The hackathon will take place between July 25 and 26 and offers domain-specific problem sets which will be worked on and presented in smaller teams during the two days. For this, we will use freely accessible databases such as MIMIC-III with highly diverse patient data. The event is not only aimed at data scientists but is also intended to provide an opportunity for health professionals to gain an insight into this topic and to guide data scientists in their analysis with their comprehensive medical knowledge. Therefore, the event will be open to anyone who is able to code in Python (with libraries Pandas and Matplotlib) or is a healthcare professional (doctors, nurses etc.).
Due to COVID-19, the event, unfortunately, will only be able to take place physically to a limited extent. In order to create fair conditions, teams will be able to work on the tasks physically or digitally by using innovative video platforms. Besides, a supporting program with insightful presentations and speakers will be offered.
Please note that this event has an upper limit of 50 participants. The event will be free of charge and held for the physical teams on-site in Aachen in the Digital Church of the digitalHub Aachen e.V.
More information and the detailed problem sets will be announced after the registration phase.
👉 Registration closed - watch the live stream via the link at the top of the page
Note about required experience level
The event is open to everyone (since it will be an educational event), but we need you (if you are not a healthcare professional) to have intermediate-level Python experience (as taught in the TechLabs #DigitalShaper program) ****which means you must be able to work with pandas, matplotlib and some other data science/mathematics libraries (e.g. NumPy). Of course, you don't have to be an expert in these libraries, but ideally you should have some basic experience.