Description of the HealthXL Hacks and a summary of the Hack Aging hackathon held in Melbourne. The challenges set to the participants looked to examine how we can better leverage technology to care for older adults in our communities.

1. HealthXL Hacks
Hackathon by HealthXL
July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne

2. Content
1. HealthXL Hacks
2. Hack Aging, a hackathon by HealthXL in Melbourne

3. WHAT
A short focused event where, over the course of weekend, programmers and developers combine with relevant
stakeholders e.g. clinicians, care providers, patients to build prototypes to address set challenges.
A HealthXL Hack aims to bring together our network of partners, start-up companies and entrepreneurs to work on
proposed challenges set in collaboration with the leading clinical provider.
WHY
Innovation requires collaboration. The event brings together an exciting mix of participants, relevant subject matter
experts, mentors etc. over the course of a weekend to work on solutions to real healthcare problem. The process is
designed to build networks for future collaborations, rapidly ideate on potential solutions and offer opportunities to
test the winning solution in cohorts of relevant patients.
THE PARTICIPANTS
Experienced, like-minded
people, with different
backgrounds, eager to hack
and collaborate AND early
stage companies
THE JUDGES AND MENTORS
Global digital health thought leaders
will be mentoring the teams from
across the network
THE SOLUTIONS
To enable the participants to create
intuitive, delightful and empathic
solutions, we’ve design the briefs with a
human-centred design to address end
user problems.
Introducing HealthXL Hacks

4. 1. Silo Busting: They Unite Diverse Stakeholders
The healthcare industry has been notoriously siloed, a challenge which is felt now more than ever as experts
agree that system-wide collaboration is needed. Healthcare-focused hackathons have become a global
phenomena bringing together highly diverse stakeholders across the world.
2. Rapid Results: They Produce Tangible Outcomes for Participants
Working in such highly cross-functional teams facilitates iterative conception and testing of ideas—and
eventual development into more complete functional prototypes, all of which offer immediate benefits to
innovators.
3. Create Runway: They Provide a Petri Dish for Experimentation for Sponsors
One of the biggest results we’ve seen from hackathons is the benefits they provide to the host organization’s own ability to
breed a culture and mindset of innovation - from opening up their data sets, learning from failure, and understanding the
potential and challenges that new technologies bring.
Hack’s can be a useful tool to build trust and understanding

5. Before, During & After
Before
• Relevant start-up companies
identified and invited to attend
• Individuals with relevant experience
register to attend
• Discussion groups formed of both
start-ups, attendees, judges,
mentors to create pre-event
momentum
• All challenges will be set with a
focus on human-centred design,
this process keeps patients and
end-users at the focus of design
and solutions
During
• For pre-existing start-ups the
weekend will be spent refining
offering with help from clinicians
involved in setting challenge.
• For newly formed teams, focus
groups and mentors will be
available to help guide the
prototype solution.
• Winners selected that best
address the challenge set
After
• Winning solutions will work with the
HealthXL network, lead Partner and
clinicians to refine an MVP for
testing.
• Prototypes will be tested on cohorts
of patients to understand the
impact of the solution (perception
testing initially).
• Working solutions will be integrated
into the wider proposed solution to
tackle the overall Challenge area

6. Day 1
• Team ice-breakers
• Keynote speaker
• Challenges Announced
• Networking
Day 2
• Developing solutions all
day
• Focus groups -
stakeholders sense
check proposed
solutions from teams
Day 3
• Complete prototyping of
solutions
• Prepare solution pitches
• Judging & award
ceremony
The Weekend Format

7. Start-ups
• Early stage companies working on technology with the ability to address the challenges set.
Individuals/teams
• Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, healthcare providers and teams of such are also invited to ether form teams or
seed start-up teams to broaden expertise.
Participants

8. Summary: Active collaboration based on solving real patient problems
Test partnership opportunities
• Actively work with other members of the network to define and promote innovation
Open innovation approach to solve real problems
• Bringing together a cross section of individuals and teams to actively work on real
problems
Kick-start longer projects to tackle the challenge
• Using the proposed solutions and teams formed to continue their work post-hack to improve the
process

9. Hack Aging
Hackathon by HealthXL
July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne

10. The age structure of the world’s population is shifting, with a projection for
close to 20% of the population over 80 yrs by 2050.
For this hackathon we focused on some of the most important health
concerns
• Dementia
• Malnutrition
• Social isolation & physical activity
What’s the problem?

11. Meet our older adult personas
Living with dementia Affected by social isolation At risk of malnutrition
Anne has lived with
dementia for the past 8
years. Supported by
her husband Jim and
community care
workers, Anne has
remained living at
home.
Ted was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s
disease in 2012. As
his disease worsens
he relies more and
more on his wife
Pippa to remember
daily tasks,
important dates and
even family
members.
Julie lives in a rural
community, where she
is delivered her meals
on wheels dinner daily.
She is no longer able to
go to the shops to
purchase her groceries
and family and care
workers are worried
about her daily calorie
intake.
Tony is a widower,
living alone for the past
number of years.
Tony’s community care
team, including his
dietician is concerned
with Tony’s daily
calorie intake. A
problem if it continues
could lead to
malnutrition and
complications with
Tony’s health in
general.
Illias was born in
Greece and came to
Australia as a young
child. Having worked all
his life, Illias is finding
retirement difficult,
struggling to fill his
days and find a sense
of purpose.
Brenda lives on her
own in a retirement
village. It is quite a
distance from her
family and Breda is
finding it difficult to
build a new social
circle and find activities
that interest her.

12. 12
Challenges set to help our seniors
Living with dementia Affected by social isolation At risk of malnutrition
Design a solution that:
• Connects Anne with family and care
providers.
• Accompanies Anne as she moves through
her day ensuring Anne remains in a safe
environment.
• Stores memories and daily tasks for
Ted and enables others to learn
more about his life story.
Design a solution that:
• Connects Brenda with her community to
build a welcoming atmosphere where she
would be comfortable to physically attend.
• Connect Brenda to a wider community
where she can share conversations and
interactions on her hobbies and passions
• Gets Illias more involved in his local
community
• A mechanism by which Illias can connect
with a wider community and utilize his
professional experience.
Design a solution that:
• That is capable of engaging with the
Julie’s living environment and
understanding if the meals and wheels
were delivered and if so eaten.
• Capturing information for carers and
family members on Julie’s meals that day
- if there is a handover this information is
captured and passed from one to the next.
• Interacting between Tony and his dietician
Helen so she can easily monitor his
weight remotely and alert her to trends
indicating malnutrition.

13. Participants
 130 participants over the
weekend
 18 teams pitched solutions on
Sunday night
 More than 40% of the
participants have 10+ years of
experience

14. Judges
Annette Hicks
Health Industry
Lead, IBM
Michael Dillhyon
Founder,
HealthBank VP,
VitalConnect
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder/Director
of Misfit, Founder
of AgaMatrix
Assoc. Prof.
Kwang Lim Chief
Medical Officer at
Northern Health
Martin Kelly
CEO &
Cofounder,
HealthXL
Chris Gray
Managing Director,
iCareHealth
Annette Schmiede
Executive Lead,
Bupa Health
Foundation

15. The Solutions
Hackathon by HealthXL
July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne
Watch a video about the hackathon

16. TelexHealth allows patients to confidentially and verbally share key
information about their health - such as weight, blood sugar, blood pressure
- via an automated telephone service.
The data is digitally recorded, analyzed
and tracked on a dashboard, and can be
accessed via a mobile application by the
patient, their doctor, family or carer.
1st

17. There is currently no easy way to
objectively measure whether
someone is a safe driver – and as
a result, licenses are often revoked
even when the driver is still fit to
drive. Olive is a smart dash cam for
elderly drivers. Olive will detect the
response time of drivers and pick
up near misses. With Olive we can
ensure that elderly drivers can
maintain their independence for as
long as possible whilst ensuring
they are still safe on the roads.

18. Heston is a personalize meal creation and food
delivery service. To learn about people’s
nutritional requirements, Heston uses your
biometrics, medical history and weight goals
combined with individualized food preferences
(including allergies), preferred meal sizes, location
and budget.
Powered by IBM Watson, Heston uses features
including trade-off analytics and personality
insights to create the ideal meal plan. The food
required to prepare these meals is supplied in the
form of a shopping list and can be ordered and
delivered to the person’s door.

19. Team Outings
A solution to address social isolation using a platform to enable social care
coordination. The solution was capable of adaptive learning to the users
perference and personalising suggested outings based on previous
experiences.
Neighbour
& other informal support
Businesses
& community
Council, NGOs
& government
Family &
friends
Health care
teams

20. Care 4 Carers
Providing support in the moment for carers
1. Stress (Event)
2. The Aftermath
An application that helps to turn negative emotions
into positive experiences. Quick and easy steps to
manage situations like aggressiveness. Offering
quick wins to the unpaid carers.

21. “Our Town”
“With age comes wisdom”
Our Town gives the wise members
of the community easy access to
events on in their local community.
The accompanying toolkit
including VR, videos of previous
events and transport options
providing the necessary options to
assist in over coming commonly
reported barriers.

22. help and guides to the carers,
personalized therapy and care for the
sufferers, all whilst gathering vital
analytics to help improve the
community.
Focused on a tablet application so
that there is portability and users feel
comfortable using the application
An application to
empower care givers and
improve the quality of life
for all those involved with
the disease by providing

23. Pandit is a web based service that lets anybody tap
into the wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom
of seniors. The system matches members based on
common interests, background and skills. Once
matched, members of the system are able to
communicate via their preferred medium (phone, sms,
email, snail mail).

24. Opaque Multimedia and Friends
Provides an augmented reality that uses image
processing and feature extraction to simulate
effects of dementia.
It really communicates the importance of a
dementia friendly environment through
experiential learning

25. Guardians of the gala
The Gala system takes
unstructured text from a wide
variety of clinical sources and
categorizes it using Watson
Cognitive Computing into the
main areas they saw as been
important to dementia decision-
making: Medical, Nutrition,
Sleep, Environment, Activity,
Behaviors, Family, Social and
Mood.

26. Full Story is an information storage system which chronicles personal, clinical
and behavioral information on an elderly person in order to allow care and
medical facilities to provide a more personalized and complete care
experience. The personal information system is first set up by the elderly
person or a carer who knows them well. This solution allows for easy
expansion to automatic monitoring devices.

27. Team Aegis developed a platform that aims to close the time
between carers seeking information and finding actually finding the
information they are looking for. This platform also has the
capability to connect care givers and family to various sources of
information

28. Connect2Fit a team combined of students from
RMIT and an exercise physiologist addressed the
problem of social isolation and physical inactivity
in older adults. They created a beautiful avatar
platform through which the instructor of the class
can interact with the participants of the class. It
provided functionality where by the seniors could
under take the class in their homes and interact
with each other via text and chat.

29. Carers of people with dementia consistently express that managing agitated
behaviors of people with dementia is the most challenging aspect of dementia
care. The Ambient room aims to improve this experience by monitoring the
stress levels of a person with dementia by capturing heart rate variability data
and automatically modulating the environment to make it more calming. This
closed loop sensor system is modular can be used by activating any
combination of lighting, music/sounds, digital displays and aromatherapy.

30. Quanticare: The Footprints Walking Frame
The Footprints walking frame is a gait aid with a
integrated sensor system which measures how
well an elderly person walks to prevent falls.
Health care professionals will be empowered to
deliver interventions based on the deterioration
of gait as well as measure the effectiveness of
those interventions.
The data can also be used to engage the elderly
person in self-management of their mobility
challenges by giving them feedback about
walking quality and assistance in setting and
tracking mobility goals.

31. Solution to be used on the TV at home.
Interactive calendar of daily activities.
Command centre where families can log in
through Facebook to organised their activities
with the elderly and at the same time get
input to the interactive calendar. Also a
version on iPad, they will be able to do some
planning. Subscription model,
partnership with a Telco.

32. La Trobe University Team
This team developed a holistic care model to
tackle dementia and social isolation. The
solution can be applied through different
devices but in this case it was demonstrated
through the use of a robot. In a wide sense they
look to find the point of multi-device
convergence and real-time user-centered
interaction.

33. A mobile based application - data collection
point. Generate strategies to work out the
problem faced at that time by the carer. It is
fed by different users and the solutions are
rated by other users. It is envisioned that it
could be used for people that are not trained
in aged. Funding based on organisations
looking for data.

34. With Thanks to Sponsors and Collaborators
Contact:
Brian Flatley,
Lead Research Analyst at HealthXL
brianflatley@healthxl.org