BDL Accelerate 2016 HealthTech Hackathon brought an international talented crowd to Beirut!

Beirut is kicking ass! BDL Accelerate 2016 HealthTech Hackathon brought  more than 130 participants from more than 10 different countries to Forum de Beyrouth yesterday to pitch their ideas in health and medical sphere. We currently have 21 teams working on their projects to show results at the Innovation Stage of BDL Accelerate 2016 Conference and compete for the winning prize of 10 000 USD in cash. BDL Accelerate 2016 HealthTech Hackathon is organized with the help of Banque du Liban, Garage48 and HackingSurgery.

Here's the list of all pitched ideas. First 21 ideas are currently worked in teams.
1. AG Med - Detecting abnormal activities in trees (device + app)

2. U-Med - Patient management system for doctors

3. Miss No Pill - Automated pill dispenser

4. Pedia Tracks - System of medical records (especially focused on children)

5. Virtual Managed Care - Preventive care solution that gathers available medical data about the patient and adds it to the patients profile

6. Graft Alert - Solution to help track the function of grafts (artificial artery/vein)

7. Dia.log - Wearable camera for keeping track of medical conversations (with a doctor's) and QA

8. E-Rush - App for looking up doctor availibility and bed vacancies

9. BacterMap - System for tracking bacteria resistance based on AI

10. Gluco-Z - Device for monitoring glucose levels

11. Drug Catcher - Solution for tracking expiration dates of drugs

12. myFace - App for training facial muscles based on selfie videos

13. Online Patient Communities - Community of patients with long-term illnesses

14. See Through Surgery - Mobile dental surgery assistant that uses AR

15. Sicky - Platform or sharing medical experiences

16. Happy Faces - An app for rating poo for getting nutritional suggestions

17. Doctor Jones - A platform for connecting you to local doctors and providing them with your medical information + personal doctor when you travel

18. HealthTag - Bracelet that contains your medical information used in case of emergencies

19. Medix - Community connecting doctors and patients, can make appointments

20. Drive Life - Facial recognition app that combat falling asleep at the wheel through gamification

21. Find a Nurse - Platform for finding a personal assistant/nurse


22. Elegant Style - An app for seeing what your haircut will look like
23. Life Donors - An app that encourages blood donation, connects blood banks with donators
24. BlockHealth - A neutral blockchain-based health database that stores your medical data and shares it with approved parties
25. MyICE - Critical information (allergies etc) in an app used by doctors in an emergency
26. Care Tracker - Platform for image-based medical+doctor tracking in crisis situations
27. EYEread - App that converts text into speech
28. Tummy - Health recommendations based on gathered data (from wearables etc) using AI
29. Roaya - Connecting medical images to current medical tools
30. MediGine - Search engine to compare prices of medical products and services
31. HTM Aid - Website for biotechnical specialists
32. DocConnect - REal-time data flow between labs results, patient info for doctors
33. Doc2Rec - Patients medical history system

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