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Welcome to the MeldRx Predictive AI App Challenge

Are you ready to build the next game-changing healthcare app? The MeldRx Predictive AI App Challenge is your chance to create innovative solutions that solve real-world healthcare problems. Use AI and machine learning to deliver powerful insights, and leverage HL7 FHIR® standards to ensure your apps integrate seamlessly with modern healthcare systems. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a newcomer, this is your opportunity to showcase your talent, collaborate with peers, and make a meaningful impact.

Why Participate?

This competition is more than just a challenge—it’s a platform for creativity, innovation, and professional growth. Here’s why you should join:

  • Lucrative cash prizes: Compete for $25,000 in prizes, including a $10,000 Grand Prize.

    • Early submissions (by Feb 14th, 2025) get showcased at ViVE 2025 for extra visibility and a shot at the User’s Choice Award!

  • Develop Skills That Matter: Get hands-on experience with SMART on FHIR standards, an essential tool for modern healthcare interoperability.

  • Build Apps That Work Everywhere: Apps built during this challenge will seamlessly integrate with other healthcare systems using FHIR standards.

  • Collaborate and Network: Work alongside like-minded innovators and connect with industry leaders.

    • Access guidance from SMART on FHIR and CDS Hooks experts. Join office hours, FAQs, and support channels to ensure your app stands out.

  • BONUS - Bragging Rights: Win, lose, or draw, you’ll walk away with the pride of having built an AI-driven healthcare app that could impact many lives.

Your Challenge

The goal is to build an app that delivers impactful decision-making support in healthcare by:

  • Harnessing AI and Machine Learning: Use advanced algorithms and predictive models to uncover meaningful insights from data.

  • Generating Actionable Insights: Create outputs like predictions, classifications, or recommendations that improve decision-making.

  • Solving Real Healthcare Problems: Address real-world challenges with innovative, scalable, and practical solutions.

How It Will Work

For this challenge, you will use the MeldRx platform. MeldRx is an ONC-certified healthcare platform that provides a fully managed FHIR-first backend as a service. App developers can register, test, and publish all types of SMART on FHIR apps. Apps created on the MeldRx platform are built on HL7 FHIR standards, ensuring they can integrate seamlessly with any healthcare system supporting these standards.

Why MeldRx?
  • FHIR Standards Built-In: MeldRx ensures your apps comply with HL7 FHIR standards, so they work across any system that supports FHIR, including EHRs.

  • SMART on FHIR Support: Develop apps that integrate with healthcare systems using SMART on FHIR protocols effortlessly.

  • FHIR First Workspaces: Provision FHIR workspaces in seconds to test your apps with your own data.

  • Connect to Others EHRs: Connect your app to other EHRs from within MeldRx using MeldRx Linked Workspaces

  • Easy Publishing: Once complete, you can deploy your apps on the MeldRx platform, making them available for use and collaboration across the ecosystem.

With MeldRx, you can focus on innovation while ensuring your apps are interoperable, standards-compliant, and ready to impact real-world healthcare systems.

Join the Challenge

This is your chance to innovate, learn, and create apps that matter. Build solutions that improve healthcare decision-making and stand the test of interoperability.

Are you ready to make an impact? Sign up for the MeldRx Predictive AI App Challenge today, and let’s shape the future of healthcare together!

Note: HL7® and FHIR® are registered trademarks of Health Level Seven International.

Requirements

What to Build

Entrant must build a predictive AI app. The app may be new or existing. The predictive AI app should meet the following criteria:

  • The app must support decision-making (not limited to clinical) based on algorithms or models (e.g. LLM)
    • Expected decision-making outputs must include any of the following: predictions, classifications, recommendations, evaluations, or analysis
  • The app must support launching through the SMART on FHIR standard either using EHR Launch or CDS Hooks and leverage the data in the FHIR R4 format
  • Entrants must create or use an existing developer account on app.meldrx.com
  • Entrants must register and publish the Predictive AI app on app.meldrx.com under their developer account
  • The app must be published on MeldRx with all required fields completed
  • Entrant must be authorized to use any third-party libraries or integrations per the tool’s terms and conditions or licensing requirements

What to Submit

Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements:

  • Include a Project that meets the above Project Requirements
  • Include a text description that should explain the features, functionality, predictive accuracy, and potential impact of your Project
  • Include the App Details of the app registered at app.meldrx.com
  • Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the Submission:
    • should be less than three (3) minutes. Judges are not required to watch beyond three minutes
    • must include footage demonstrating the Project functioning on the device for which it was built, specifically showing the app launching from MeldRx using either CDS Hooks or EHR Launch. Submissions that do not demonstrate the app launching from MeldRx will not be considered
    • must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube or Vimeo, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and
      • must not include third-party trademarks, music, images, or other copyrighted material unless the Entrant has permission to freely use such material
  • Entrants may provide a sample list of patients for use with their app as an FHIR R4 bundle, which can be imported into a MeldRx workspace

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$25,000 in prizes
Best Application
$10,000 in cash
1 winner

Runner Up
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

Honorable Mention
$1,000 in cash
5 winners

Best Use of MeldRx
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

The most innovative and impactful use of MeldRx platform features

Best of ViVE - User's Choice Voting
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

Entries submitted by 2/15 will be showcased and voted on at the Darena Solutions booth at ViVE in Nashville, TN.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Daniel Bach

Daniel Bach
Community Manager, HL7 Standards Development Team https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbachhl7/

Kevin Maloy, MD

Kevin Maloy, MD
Founder and Chief FHIR Evangelist, www.clinicians.dev and www.patient.dev

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA
Founder, HER Heard, MIT Sloan Fellow Alum https://www.linkedin.com/in/usnehal/

Sidharth Ramesh

Sidharth Ramesh
Founder, Medblocks https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidharthramesh1/

Sigrid Berge van Rooijen

Sigrid Berge van Rooijen
AI Business Consultant, Eir Health https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigridberge/

Sebastian Jayaraj, PhD

Sebastian Jayaraj, PhD
Senior Director - Digital Health, Bristol Myers Squibb https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianjayaraj/

Judging Criteria

  • Potential Impact
    Address a significant need or challenge.
  • Creativity and Originality
    Assess the project's ingenuity in addressing healthcare challenges, emphasizing unique methodologies or perspectives that distinguish it from existing solutions.
  • Documentation Thoroughness and Transparency
    Ensure the documentation fully complies with the B11 criterion for EHRs, detailing all required source attributes, and aligning with the FAVES principles to promote fairness, appropriateness, validity, effectiveness, and safety in healthcare AI

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