开发者挑战赛起源于美国硅谷，形式一般为利用几十个小时的时间，开发出一个产品的雏形。下面以本次@启创中国 的合作伙伴美国著名的Health2.0机构的Code-A-Thons为例，介绍医疗保健行业的开发者挑战赛。
What is it? 是什么？
对于每一个参会者来说，开发者马拉松是一个认识与自己有相似思考方式的创新者的绝佳的社交活动。在这个活动中，参会者不仅可以结交志同道合的人与其一起来解决具有挑战性的问题，并且参会者可以在此活动中锻炼并且交流自己的编程技能并学到新的技能。在过去的Health 2.0 开发者马拉松大会上，有很多有意思的项目已经启动。
What is the difference? 医疗保健开发者挑战赛与一般开发者挑战赛有什么不同？
本次活动定位为医疗保健行业的开发者挑战赛，必须有它与众不同的地方。首先，所有开发的产品或雏形都必须是与医疗保健行业有关的。其次，活动里每个团队将会有一名医生或护士作为成员参与周末的产品开发。
难题及挑战的实例
l 医院之间的电子转诊系统
l 根据地域划分来显示感染性疾病的流行病学及爆发的网站或应用程序
l 一款“请来探望我”的应用程序，让那些独居或独身的患者能借助软件来合理有效地安排朋友的探望时段
l 集中化管理患者的投诉和建议，以利于最大限度的开拓改善方案（例如：患者意见表）
l 一款使同一社区中同样疾病的患者能够互相扶持的的全球化应用程序
l 自我控制/行为改变的应用程序：“多运动，多蔬菜，少油脂，少吸烟”；每年过多的医疗服务资源被肥胖或其他一些由自主可控行为引发的疾患而占用。 为了使那些想要改变的人们拥有一个切实可用的工具，让我们一起来研发一款手机软件，以认知理论为依据，在收集信息建立数据平台的同时大力支持由医生建议实施的积极行为模式改变的做法。
l 四项产业的社会化媒体黑客（食物，酒精，烟草，药物），这四个产业中的部分商家利用社会媒体的平台推动一些有害健康的生活方式从而牟利。我们能否予以反击？
历届健康2.0的获胜者
l http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/winners/
l http://www.health2news.com/2011/02/25/east-coast-wrap-up/
l http://www.health2news.com/2012/02/01/winners-of-the-nyc-code-a-thon/
其他医疗开发挑战赛的工程实例
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14C0848345D0B382&feature=view_all
医疗健康数据库
l PubMed Central Open
Access: http://pmc.jensenlab.org
l Travelers Health CDC: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/
l WHO (China): http://www.who.int/countries/chn/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/chn/zh/index.html
l Ministry of Health (China): http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles//business/htmlfiles/zwgkzt/ptjty/index.htm
In English:
Health 2.0 – Examples of Problems & Challenges
- Electronic referrals from one hospital to another.
- Website/App to show infectious disease epidemiology and outbreak information by location.
- A Visit Me app - for people who don't have a significant other to arrange friends to visit them in hospital when they are not with it enough to set this up - something like setting which slots are free and people booking.
- Centralising patient’s comments and complaints to mine for possible improvement (ie. PatientOpinion?)
- A geoaware app to allow patients with the same chronic disease in the same neighbour to support one another. (ie. PatientsLikeMe?)
- SELF-CONTROL/BEHAVIOUR CHANGE APP: "exercise more, smoke less, eat more greens, eat less fat" : Obesity and other self-controllable behaviours excessively costs the healthcare services every year. Let's make a phone app to support positive behaviour changees recommended by doctors and collect data on these behaviours. Functionality based on cognitive theory. Give people who want to change the tools to do so.
- Four industry social media hack (Food, Alcohol, Tobacco, Pharma). Parts of these four industries promote unhealthy living using social media to the personal cost of us all. Can we fight back?
Previous Health 2.0 winners:
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/winners/
http://www.health2news.com/2011/02/25/east-coast-wrap-up/
http://www.health2news.com/2012/02/01/winners-of-the-nyc-code-a-thon/
Other healthcare hack day project examples:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14C0848345D0B382&feature=view_all
Health Data Sets:
· PubMed Central Open Access: http://pmc.jensenlab.org
· Travelers Health CDC: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/
· WHO (China): http://www.who.int/countries/chn/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/chn/zh/index.html
· Ministry of Health (China):http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles//business/htmlfiles/zwgkzt/ptjty/index.htm