Hacking Health Hamilton re-launches

Last week Hacking Health Hamilton hosted its first Café event.

Over 40 healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, and others gathered at McMaster Innovation Park to listen, learn, network and discuss their ideas for improving healthcare in Hamilton.

The event featured three very informative guests.

Debbie Schmidt, a Clinical Informatics Specialist, and Registered Nurse at St Josephs Hamilton. With over 20 years of healthcare and technology experience Debbie gave insight about the upcoming trends for technology in healthcare and what some of the specific needs across the continuum are.

Giancarlo De Lio, the founder and CIO of VitalHub showed us his incredible intuitive interface that makes patient information available anywhere it is needed on multiple clinical systems thus allowing the clinicians to focus on the patient and not on the computer.

Sina Afshani from Blue Orchid Care Inc demonstrated his assistive device. The revolutionary product is light, unobtrusive and more affordable than existing lifts.

The drive and innovation demonstrated by all above showed us the benefits and importance of technology merging with healthcare which lead into brainstorming conversations amongst the attendees.

The Hacking Health Hamilton team are excited to connect more members of the community to continue discussions and start collaborations and are working on planning their next Cafe in late spring.

To learn more visit http://www.meetup.com/Hacking-Health-Hamilton, follow @HHHamOnt and/or e-mail hamilton@hackinghealth.ca.