Display options
Cite
Pathanasethpong A, Soomlek C, Morley K, et al. Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2017;5(10):e155doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8259.
Pathanasethpong, A., Soomlek, C., Morley, K., Morley, M., Polpinit, P., Dagan, A., Weis, J. W., & Celi, L. A. (2017). Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(10), e155. https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.8259
Pathanasethpong, Atipong, et al. "Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand." JMIR mHealth and uHealth vol. 5,10 (2017): e155. doi: https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.8259
Pathanasethpong A, Soomlek C, Morley K, Morley M, Polpinit P, Dagan A, Weis JW, Celi LA. Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2017 Oct 16;5(10):e155. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8259. PMID: 29038098; PMCID: PMC5662787.
Copy Download .nbib Format: NLM
Share it on

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2017 Oct 16;5(10):e155. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8259.

Tackling Regional Public Health Issues Using Mobile Health Technology: Event Report of an mHealth Hackathon in Thailand.

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Atipong Pathanasethpong, Chitsutha Soomlek, Katharine Morley, Michael Morley, Pattarawit Polpinit, Alon Dagan, James W Weis, Leo Anthony Celi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
  2. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  4. Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.

PMID: 29038098 PMCID: PMC5662787 DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.8259

Abstract

Hackathons are intense, short, collaborative events focusing on solving real world problems through interdisciplinary teams. This is a report of the mHealth hackathon hosted by Khon Kaen University in collaboration with MIT Sana and faculty members from Harvard Medical School with the aim to improve health care delivery in the Northeast region of Thailand. Key health challenges, such as improving population health literacy, tracking disease trajectory and outcomes among rural communities, and supporting the workflow of overburdened frontline providers, were addressed using mHealth. Many modifications from the usual format of hackathon were made to tailor the event to the local context and culture, such as the process of recruiting participants and how teams were matched and formed. These modifications serve as good learning points for hosting future hackathons. There are also many lessons learned about how to achieve a fruitful collaboration despite cultural barriers, how to best provide mentorship to the participants, how to instill in the participants a sense of mission, and how to match the participants in a fair and efficient manner. This event showcases how interdisciplinary collaboration can produce results that are unattainable by any discipline alone and demonstrates that innovations are the fruits of collective wisdom of people from different fields of expertise who work together toward the same goals.

©Atipong Pathanasethpong, Chitsutha Soomlek, Katharine Morley, Michael Morley, Pattarawit Polpinit, Alon Dagan, James W Weis, Leo Anthony Celi. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 16.10.2017.

Keywords: hackathon; interdisciplinary collaboration; mHealth

References

  1. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2008 May;24(3):349-56 - PubMed
  2. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010 Jun;82(6):1113-7 - PubMed
  3. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2014 Jul;30(3):260-4 - PubMed
  4. J Med Eng Technol. 2016 Oct - Nov;40(7-8):392-399 - PubMed

Publication Types

Grant support