Hack for Health 2017 - FINAL REPORT

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Directory
Peter Kuhn Elvia Nunez
Martin Hunt Sara Ma
Louis Harboe Jack Whelan
Thuy Truong Jeremy Mason
Parker Malachowsky Lori Marx-Rubiner
Jan Liphardt AnneMarie Ciccarella
Lana Clay Michelle Je
peter.kuhn@usc.edu elvianun@usc.edu
mgh@alumni.stanford.edu sarama@usc.edu
lharboe@usc.edu jack@whelanusa.com
thuytruo@usc.edu masonj@usc.edu
pmalacho@usc.edu regrounding@yahoo.com
jliphardt@stanford.edu anncicc@gmail.com
lana.clay@yahoo.com jemichel@usc.edu
USC Michelson Center
Founding Director CSI-Cancer;
CancerBase Co-Founder
CSI-Cancer Program Manager
CancerBase Technical Lead
Hack For Health Team Member
USC Iovine & Young Academy
CancerBase and Hack For
Health Team Member
Health Team Member
ArmMe - ERT Inc.
Hack For Health Patient Advo-
cate
Salt Cancer Initiative, Inc.
Founder
CancerBase & Hack For Health Lead
CancerBase Research Lead
Health Team Member
CancerBase
cate
CancerBase Co-Founder CancerBase
cate
Keck Graduate Institute
cate

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Directory
Angela Wu Erica Muhl
David Hodge Lawrence Lau
Daniel Kent
Martin Shapiro Tam Vu
Dr. Jorge Neiva
Anthony Aylward Ann Greenberg
Dr. Jerry Lee
Chloe Chan
Sean LimKara Defrias
wuangela@usc.edu artdean@usc.edu
david@davidhodge.net laul@stevens.usc.edu
daniel.kent@ert.com
martinsh@usc.edu tam.vu@colorado.edu
jorge.nieva@med.usc.edu
aaylward@eng.ucsd.edu ann@anngreenberg.com
leejerry@mail.nih.gov
chloecha@usc.edu
seanslim@usc.edukaradefrias@gmail.com
Dean of USC Roski School of
Arts and USC Iovine and Young
Academy
Hack For Health Judge
Founder at Embark
Hack For Health Mentor
USC Stevens Center for Innovation
Associate Director
Hack for Health Judge
ArmMe - ERT Inc.
Project Manager
Hack for Health Speaker
Keck Medical Student
University of Colorado
Assistant Professor
USC Norris Comprehensive
Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Oncologist
UC San Diego Graduate Student
Hack For Health Volunteer
Sceneplay, Inc.
CEO/Founder
National Cancer Institute
Health Science Director
Health Team Member
USC Dornsife - Biophysics
Hack For Health Videographer
White House Office
UI/UX Lead Cancer Moonshot
Hack for Health Judge & Speaker

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Statistics
Participants
Registration
50 Students
185 Registrants!
Sophomore
Freshman
Senior
Junior
Graduate
9 Completed Projects
ancer Survi- 5 Cancer Survivors

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“
People
I believe that the best way to
harness technology is either by saving
someone’s life or making them happy.
HackForHealth is a platform promot-
ing the same. So I would definitely love
to be a part of it!
– Harshita
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I’m constantly - and relentlessly - in pursuit of
empowering individuals through design and technology.
My work process occupies a unique space between
empathy and creativity; I’m passionate about
building tools that improve the quality of life for all
people. Through HackForHealth, I want to connect with
patients to better understand their stories and deliver
innovative solutions to pressing challenges, aswellaswork
in a collaborative environment to create positive impact.
– Deanna Lam

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Event Diary
DAY 1
• The event starts at 5pm with the speakers and 50 participants
• The opening ceremony is coordinating by Lana, Sara, Vincent, Parker, Sean, Thuy, Martin
Hunt, Martin Shapiro, Angela, and Michelle
• David Hodge, the MC for the Opening Ceremony, shares his journey from a USC student
& Hackathon organizer to an entrepreneur
• Lana Clay tells her life story as a cancer survivor of 25 years since the age of 3
• Dr. Jorge Nieva gives a quick overview of cancer biology, treatments, and data science
• Daniel Kent shares how he built a medical technology company out of a Hackathon pro-
ject that was eventually acquired by ERT
• Thuy closes the ceremony with advice, logistics, and an announcement of the prizes
• Hacking participants form teams and retreat to team rooms for a long night of hacking!
• Mentors and organizers circulate among teams and discuss ideas
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Event Diary
DAY 2
• Martin, Thuy, and Parker run the night shift until 7am
• Breakfast is delivered to the hacking rooms by Louis and Chloe in the morning
• Some of the teams decide to move to TRF to work closer with the mentors (and food!)
• Kathleen hosts a Yoga class for cancer patients and hackers
• Lunch is served with a talk by Jan Lipphadt
• Hackers continue discussion with Dr. Jorge Nieva and patients
• Dinner is served with talk by AnnieMarie, follow by more discussions to fine tune prod-
uct and presentation
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Event Diary
DAY 3
• Teams submit their projects electronically at noon!
• ● Kara DeFrias arrives and gives a talk during lunch
• ● First round of judging: all team present. Judges: Ann Greenberg, Professor Peter Kuhn,
Lori Marx-Rubiner, Thuy Truong
• ● Closing Ceremony coordinates include Martin Shapiro, Martin Hunt, Parker, Michelle,
Angela, Thuy, Lori
• ● Lana is the MC for the Closing Ceremony
• ● Peter delivers a keynote about CancerBase with Jerry Lee (who is joined over Skype)
• ● The finalists are announced and present to the final panel. Final panel includes Kara
• DeFrias, Professor Peter Kuhn, Lawrence Lau, Dean Erica Muhl, and Dr. Jorge Nieva.
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Completed Projects
WINNER - 1st PLACE
WINNER - 2nd PLACE
WINNER - 3rd PLACE
FINALIST FINALIST FINALIST
Storyline
Infusion
Cure Recruiter
Know Your Health CEEG Team Trojans
“Our application empowers patients to manage their medical prescriptions. Users take pictures of their
medications, and the app uses computer vision to find them in FDA databases, providing an easy sum-
mary of information they care about. Drug entries will be sorted in a timeline to easily keep track of
medication history, effectiveness, and side effects.”
“Infusion is a smart chemotherapy app that reduces the stress in planning life around infusions. In each
cycle, we help patients track their symptoms with the same scale used by doctors. Next, we analyze the
cycle of symptoms—helping them predict how they’ll feel on any day in the future, and optimizing the
schedule so they can schedule life events with confidence.”
“We are a mobile platform for clinical trials to recruit from a pool of patients based on eligibility. Patients
can match with clinical trials they are interested in, and clinic sites have a platform to communicate with
them.”
“A mobile app that digitizes
and standardizes medical
record using Optical Char-
acters Recognition, match
patients with clinical trials,
and enhance the patient
healthy daily habits. The
app filters only relevant
data based on the patient’s
type of cancer.”
“We are proposing an inte-
grated EEG platform with
Bluetooth capability that
can help caretakers monitor
their own quality of life.”
“A platform for the cancer
patients to the right buddy
at the first shot and not hav-
ing to go through manual
searching.”

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H-JAM Vans USCTechies
“We aim to pair people
suffering from cancer with
those suffering from men-
tal illnesses. We aim to fa-
cilitate quality relationships
available to cancer patients
by providing curated infor-
mation from a caregivers
perspective.”
“We are developing a so-
cial networking application
for individuals to spread
knowledge pertaining to
macro and day to day issues
of cancer. The objective of
this application is to pro-
vide a platform to support
the exchange of informa-
tion and communicate with
individuals going through
similar situations. We want
to promote social interac-
tions by helping individuals
find support groups and
foster relationships through
forums and one to one chat
services.”
“Keeping the patient care
as the focus, we have tried
to develop an android app
which monitors the users
mobility, nutrition supply
of the patient, notes his
moods, keeps reminders
of patients’ medication and
other such parameters.”
“
Because the great things we do in science
and medicine need to be better shared
and made accessible to the people that
need it most, the patients. Our access to
large amounts of data and our universal
connectedmess as human beings offer
possibilities to improve the human
condition like no other time in history.
– Alexander Ring
HONORABLE MENTION HONORABLE MENTION HONORABLE MENTION

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1st Place - Storyline
A timeline for tracking all medication
Supplemental medication data imported directly from FDA database
Automatically scans medications and identifies label names and dosages
Leverages computer vision and web technologies
Take a picture of your drug

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3rd Place - Cure Recruiter
Solving the clinical trial patient matching problem Increase accrual rates for trials
Offer more patients access to clinical trials

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Letters from Patients
Welcome to Hack 4 Health!
I’m going to guess that each of us knows someone who has or has had cancer, a relative or friend,
perhaps even you. You probably know more than one person. In the US, statistics suggest that
nearly 50% of us will have a cancer diagnosis in our lifetime. We have no idea whether it might be
you or the person sitting next to you. We don’t know if it will be a minor inconvenience of a cancer
or one that is life-threatening. We do know that the cancer burden in this country, and across the
globe, is growing year by year.
If you’ve seen cancer up close, you know it’s overwhelming and scary. But that doesn’t mean that
there isn’t joy and hope. There is a great deal of the latter, at least for me and most of the people I
know. And that despite the fact that my cancer has spread throughout my body where it can now
kill me.
Just yesterday I flew home from a major cancer research conference, where I attended days of
meetings and countless poster sessions looking for new ideas in cancer research. While there
were certainly some promising learnings, we are still a very long way from being able to stop the
disease from taking my life. And yet I came away hopeful – that maybe something will extend it,
and just maybe the next generation will see significant improvements in cancer care and treat-
ment, maybe cancer can be rendered a chronic, livable disease.
My hopes lie with you as well. Your ideas and innovations, the spark of your imaginations, your
creativity – they will make a difference. Whether it is looking at a single cell, the global burden
of cancer, or something in between, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done. You may
choose to focus on prevention, detection, disease management, treatment, or something alto-
gether different.
You’re here – you’ve stepped up. For this I am so grateful.
Enjoy the next 48 hours! Dream big and reach for the possible. The entire H4H team is here to help
you change the world for everyone touched by cancer.
Hack On!
Lori Marx-Rubiner

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Dear Hackers,
My name is Lana and I grew up in Orange County, California. I began life as a very inquisitive
and energetic child. Until one day, when I came home from daycare and my mother noticed
that I had an excess amount of bruises all over my legs. That week started a month long
voyage back and forth to my pediatrician. Initially doctors told my parents that I was anemic.
A few iron supplements later and no improvement. My symptoms began to worsen. Then
something very peculiar happened, I couldn’t stand up for myself. I was sitting down in a gro-
cery store aisle told my parents that my legs don’t work. Another trip to the pediatrician and
my parents were told by physicians that I was jealous of my little sister, I was being dramatic
and trying to divert attention from her. A week later I subsequently ended up in the emer-
gency room. That day my parents were told, “Lana has cancer”. I went through an intensive
and extremely long protocol.
My childhood and young adolescents were greatly affected by my diagnosis, including
physical and psychological impairments. I compartmentalized my experiences as a coping
mechanism. I didn’t want to remember my experiences with cancer. I wanted to be “normal”.
I hated being known as the girl who had cancer.
Until I was in college, I went horribly out of my way to hide all my physical scars from cancer.
I was afraid that the world would see me as defective. I eventually realized that I needed to
share my experiences and embrace my survivorship. Today, I can confidently say that shar-
ing my story with the world has been my biggest accomplishment in life.
My survivorship has also empowered me to immerse myself in my studies. My education
includes three Masters Degrees in Public Health Professions Education, Community Health
Development, and Business of Bioscience. I am additionally completing my Doctorate in
Epidemiology, specifically quantifying health data through technological modalities. My ed-
ucation paired with my survivorship now allows me to offer a unique perspective to cancer
community members.
Cancer tried to take my mobility, my internal peace, my confidence, and most of all my future.
I know, together we can create innovations that will lead future cancer survivor generations
into a prosperous life! Thank you for your creativity, knowledge and tenacity.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivor,
Lana Nicole Rose Clay

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Next Time!
What could be done better?
• The location of the Hackathon was the biggest issue. There were two hackathons happening
in the same weekend, so we could not get all the rooms in one building. Next time we will
consider using the new Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences to host the Hackathon
and address some of the logistics.
• Breakfast: participants would have preferred a hot food over snacks
• Recruitment can be improved with more online marketing (Facebook) and offline workshops
to attract more participants
• Parking details for speakers and special guests should be organized at least one week be-
fore the event
Future Plans
• CancerBase Monthly Meetup for people who are interested in using technology in cancer
treatments and research innovation to meet/network with cancer patients and doctors
• Every six months should organize a Hackathon at USC and one other University or Corporate
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SPECIAL THANKS TO
OUR PARTNERS
Date of Report: 03/29/2017
Prepared by Thuy T Truong & Martin Hunt
Design by Chloe Chan, Michelle Je
Photos by Mike Glier, USC Dornsife Communications
Hack for Health - Organizer
USC Kuhn Laboratory
3430 S Vermont Ave, TRF 114, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Email: thuytruo@usc.edu
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