The community based hack-a-thon focused on consumer empowerment and engagement. It was a collaborative effort between multiple organizations to address health concerns in the community. There were over 160 registrations and 11 teams presented their projects. Key highlights included establishing new partnerships, raising over $8,100 in funding, and positive feedback from participants who learned skills and found it a fun experience.

1. CULTIVATEHEALTH
POST HACK-A-THON REPORT
FY 2015
The community based hack-a-thon focused on consumer empowerment and engagement.

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Big thanks to our sponsors and partners_______________________________________________________________ 1
Special Thanks to IBM____________________________________________________________________________________ 2
History and Evolution____________________________________________________________________________________ 4
Overall Event Highlights _________________________________________________________________________________ 7
Press, Social Media and Other Feedback________________________________________________________________ 9
Contact Information____________________________________________________________________________________ 12

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Big thanks to our sponsors and partners
The cultivateHealth, health care hack-a-thon was part of a collaborative effort between the
following organizations:
IBM
The Latino HealthCare Forum (LHCF)
Center for Healthy Communities (CHC)
Sendero Health Plans
St David’s Foundation
Clinical Pathology Laboratories
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin Design Institute for Health
City of Austin, Office of Mayor Steve Adler
Valor Ventures
RowdMap
Restore Rundberg
emPoder LLC
LHCF provides community health planning and gathers evidence based data and emPoder builds
platforms with this data to inform and innovate solutions for community benefit. Both LHCF and
emPoder are sister organizations in collaboration to address health concerns.

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Special Thanks to IBM!
Nitin Gaur, Director IBM Blockchain
Cole Sorency, IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform Solution Specialist
Hovig Ohannessian, IBM
Dennis Harrison, IBM
Kay Freund, IBM
Bob Arenburg, Ph.D, Solution IT Architect, NA Cloud Ecosystem & City Engagement
Karl Weinmeister, Senior Development Manager IBM Mobile Innovation Lab
Yael Alkalay, IBM Innovation Strategy Lead
Chuck Sorkin, IBM PMP Business Development Lead IBM Cloud Business Unit Ecosystem & City
Engagement
Rich Luna, IBM Solutions IT Architect IBM Ecosystems Development
Sandy Dochen, IBM Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, Texas Louisiana,
Arkansas
IBM ideation/creative session with
IBM Innovation Strategy team and other team members

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Special Thanks to Sendero
Wes Durkalski, Sendero Health CEO
Christine Schraff
Allegra Hastings-Martinez
Special Thanks to UT @Austin Dell Medical School
Dr Mini Kahlon, PhD, Vice Dean for Strategy and Partnerships
Special Thanks to UT@Austin Design Institute for Health
Beto Lopez, Managing Director
Special Thanks to St. David’s Foundation
Special Thanks to City of Austin, Office of Mayor Steve Adler
Frank Rodriguez, Senior Policy Advisor
Special Thanks to BlueHubHealth
Bryan “Buzz” White, CEO

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cultivateHealth, History and Evolution
This hack-a-thon was incepted to serve a dual purpose:
1) Focus on creating a value add for the LHCF to elevate the conversation(s) in the
community relative to wellness care and
2) Deliver high value mobile and web applications that specifically focus on the needs that
the Restore Rundberg Health and Wellness Initiative Project uncovered as priorities to
address.
The above word cloud is symbolic of the thought process from various stakeholders and was
developed based on input from hack-a-thon project planning committee members, such as but not
limited to: IBM, BlueHubHealth, UT Design Institute for Health, and others. Design thinking was
critical in developing this hack-a-thon to ensure the consumer was at the center of conversations;
driving consumer empowerment and engagement for long term mutually beneficial gains was the
focus since its inception.

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The real spark that ignited the hack-a-thon initiative was engaging existing relationships that the
Chief Technology Officer brought “to the table” from past engagements (as part of isi consultants)
prior to Latino HealthCare Forum (LHCF). These relationships or contacts recommended others to
engage relative to goals and objectives for the LHCF.
The initial intent was to better
understand the IBM Bluemix
platform and its potential to assist
the LHCF achieve its mobile
application development goals.
Through various meetings and
interactions the idea of a hack-
a-thon did not materialize until
one to two months prior to the
IBM – LHCF meeting at IBM
Austin Building 904.
June 2015 marked a major
milestone relative to a strategic
action taken entirely by Hector
Torres to “invest” in the IBM
Bluemix platform for LHCF
software development. This
exact action garnered the
attention of various IBM
representatives.
This was the catalyst that put the hack-a-thon initiative into full swing and catapulted the LHCF
into the epicenter of the “Austin established ecosystem”, as shown above, in the IBM SmartCamp
slide presentation held at CapitalFactory.

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Support garners support
LHCF exhibiting at the IBM Austin BootCamp

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OVERALL EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
A. STRATEGIC HIGHLIGHTS
Established and/or strengthened relationships with the following:
Strengthened relationship:
- Sendero Health
- Restore Rundberg
- University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
- St David’s
- City of Austin
- IBM
Established new relationships:
- University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
o Communications and External Affairs
o Department of Women’s Health
o Design Institute for Health
- Clinical Pathology Laboratories
- Husch Blackwell
- Women Who Code
- Valor Ventures
- St David’s
- RowdMap
- IBM
B. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
- The cultivateHealth healthcare hack-a-thon raised over $8,100.00 in less than two months
to cover various expenses related to general operations
o Sendero Health Plans - $3,100
o St Davids Foundation - $2,500
o Clinical Pathology Laboratories - $1,500 + open data
o Valor Ventures - $500
o RowdMap - $500
- IBM provided the venue and support staff
C. OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS
- cultivateHealth was the first hack-a-thon at IBM that was not run by IBM staff
- cultivateHealth, powered by emPoder

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D. EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Attendance
Total Registration =160
Attending 82 51%
Not Attending 5 3%
Checked In 73 46%
100%
Help Develop 97 61%
Help Educate 31 19%
Help Coordinate 17 11%
Spectators Welcome 5 3%
Help Judge 10 6%
160 100%
Registrations Goals
Help Develop, Goal was 100
Help Educate, Goal was 35
Help Coordinate, Goal was 20
Spectators Welcome, Goal was 10
Help Judge, Goal was 10
Team Presentations
Total teams at hack-a-thon: 11
Total team presentations: 8
Winning Teams:
- Team Priya
- EllieGrid
Event photos:
https://instagram.com/cultivatehealthatx/

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Press, Social Media and Other Feedback
HealthCare BootCamp to Help Developers, Entrepreneurs and Innovators Use Data,
Technology and Community Interaction to Address Healthcare Delivery and
Disparities
October 5 2015 (Globe NEWSWIRE)

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Press, Social Media and Other Feedback
“Overall, the event was very educational and working with my team was so much fun! It was great
to work on something that can have a real impact on the Austin community. For it being the first
hackathon you've put on, it was great!” – ShelleyK84@hotmail.com
“Very fun hackathon. I learned a lot over the course of the weekend and I look forward to
continuing to improve and develop the project that my team and I started working on over the
weekend. The feedback we received from the health care professionals in attendance will help us
in future development.” – Team Priya
“We loved the event!” – Team Priya
“Overall exceptional job! Vey fun event with talented people!” – Ellen Lazaretti, Team dLogit
“It was really fun, I would have loved even more workshops and professionals to come talk.” –
Dina Williams
“Great job!” – Maram Museitif
“The cultivateHealth hackathon provided a unique blend of Rundberg community need, IBM tech
platform and…a community of enthusiastic start up hackers. We met many inspiring people
pursuing innovative solutions in health care. This was a memorable event designed and created by
inspired people. It was an honor to have participated in this ground breaking project.” – Richard
Hurley, Team Austim Mission

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Contact Information
LHCF, CHC
cultivateHealth powered by emPoder
Hector Torres
Chief Technology Officer
hector@lhcf.org
http://www.lhcf.org
http://cultivateHealth.chctx.org
http://www.chctx.org
http://www.empoder.net