Drug saves life. In contrast to this common note there is one aspect of it hardly discussed-its adverse effect. Mylan recently hosted Mylan Hackathon at its Global Center in Bengaluru on March 19-20, 2016 with a focus on Better Health for a Better World. Mylan Hackathon 2016 presents the world a solution that shall change the way we can address this problem. Team NTT Hackers came up with a solution that presents with an un-surmountable amount of options to solve it.
Mylan Hackathon 2016 lived up to its ethos of providing the world with solutions that shall change the way healthcare is delivered and perceived in the country. The company will take active interest in the winning ideas and would bring about a pilot state to give life to the ideas and bring about a realism to the models.
The solution provided by the winning team- NTT Hackers will Identify and record patients’ adverse effects & help Mylan to continually offer better treatment. Also, visualizing where diseases are spread geographically and the scale of impact will help the supply chain to be more efficient and effective at getting medication to the right people, in the right regions, at the right time. In healthcare, timeliness is the key and this solution delivers just that along with providing an extensive map of the disease spread.
The next two teams to hail the podium at a tie were- Bang On Hackathon and Thea. While the first team had an objective of building up a solution both offline and online to enable patient take the first step towards diagnosis of HIV. Diagnosis – Ask patient a list of questions to evaluate their probability of suffering from HIV, Awareness – To educate person about preventive measures, post diagnosis medical care and patient support group. Lastly, outreach to remote areas providing medical assistance to patients based on the evaluation criteria through the Application was another pillar of the solution provided by Bang on Hackathon.
Thea developed an AI based chat application, which will start off with limited options and then keep updating its knowledge base, based on user queries. This can be used to access info on diseases, treatments, track drug usage and capture potential adverse events/adverse drug reactions.
Expanding the horizon of opportunity, Myklan Hackathon 2016 saw the Team Bitmap being adjudged as the winner in the student category – Working on the idea of geographical monitoring of adverse drug reactions and company wise analysis based on social network data stream they showed the future of solutions on healthcare delivery.
Traceback the runner up in student’s category developed an idea on artificial Intelligence and came up with a project that can revolutionize data modelling and prediction. The team used artificial intelligence in the geospatio-temporal prediction of the spread of diseases: building a data modelling tool kit that takes a hybrid approach to train the model that uses both data from previous years and non-conventional data sources such as social media, newspapers.
Winner
Student category : Winner – bitMAP, Runner-up – Traceback
Professional category : Winner – NTT Hackers, Runner-ups – BangOn Hackathon and Thea
About Mylan
Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company committed to setting new standards in healthcare. Working together around the world to provide 7 billion people access to high quality medicine, they innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and service excellence a habit; do what’s right, not what’s easy; and impact the future through passionate global leadership. For more information, please visit Mylan