Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI)

Project Overview

Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI) is a 36-hour hackathon April 12-14, 2024 at Georgetown University for student teams of 3-5 to solve real-world healthcare challenge cases using AI. This year, our theme centers around generative AI, with a special focus on leveraging ChatGPT. H2AI’s mission is to help students 1) learn and develop AI skills and 2) form relationships with healthcare AI experts.

Building prototypes to solve clinical cases written by Georgetown faculty will give students a unique first-hand experience addressing real problems experienced by patients and providers while developing both technical skills and “soft” skills that are critical for successful, responsible, ethical AI creation. Hackathon mentors who will help students combine conceptual frameworks from class with current industry best practices include faculty from Georgetown School of Medicine and Medstar, McDonough School of Business, and Data Science and Analytics Masters Program. Teams will also collaborate with application users such as patients, physicians, and healthcare system managers to adopt a user-centered design approach, integrating their insights directly into development. To make AI learning opportunities inclusive and foster interdisciplinary collaboration, no prior experience programming AI is required.

By participating in H2AI, students from across Georgetown’s community will learn different perspectives on how to use AI for the greater good in a safe and inclusive environment. Involving over 250 participants with backgrounds in computer science, ethics, medicine, business, and more, H2AI will bring together the brightest minds to create innovative ideas in Al and medicine for better patient care.