_30 Sept 2012:
Enventure Student Team wins SXSW Interactive (Healthcare) Hackathon
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This past weekend, UT
Southwestern IHS medical students combined forces with members of the Houston
Medical Entrepreneurship community, Enventure, to devise and pitch solutions to ischemic stroke at
the first ever SXSW Interactive Healthcare Hackathon.
Team Stroke-Wise Global, consisting of Elizabeth Carstens, Sai Madhavapeddi, Joe Barziza, Amy Horwitz, and Matthew Pautz, went on to win the competition with an algorithm to inform administration of tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) in ischemic stroke patients in the absence of MRI or CT imaging, as in developing world settings.
A second team, Mind Sweepers, proposed a means for linking stroke volume and location to patient outcomes following tPA administration, using gamification to build a 3D stroke database.
*You can learn more about the competition at:
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/news/sxsw-interactive-hackathon-10-results.
Team Stroke-Wise Global, consisting of Elizabeth Carstens, Sai Madhavapeddi, Joe Barziza, Amy Horwitz, and Matthew Pautz, went on to win the competition with an algorithm to inform administration of tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) in ischemic stroke patients in the absence of MRI or CT imaging, as in developing world settings.
A second team, Mind Sweepers, proposed a means for linking stroke volume and location to patient outcomes following tPA administration, using gamification to build a 3D stroke database.
*You can learn more about the competition at:
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/news/sxsw-interactive-hackathon-10-results.