Bringing Medicine to the Digital Age via Hackathons and Beyond

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-3

  Walker, Angela ^a   Ko, Naomi ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital medicine; Grand Hack; Hackathon; Innovation; Interventions

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICINE; SCIENTIST; COOPERATION; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84958045893     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-016-0461-1     Document Type: Article

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