Mar. 6, 2025

In-person event held on the University of Washington – Seattle campus

The Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) is an exciting extracurricular student competition held each March at the University of Washington that encourages participants to dream up innovative solutions for big problems the world faces today related to health and healthcare. Each year, student teams submit novel business ideas describing medical devices, therapeutics, digital health interventions, healthcare delivery platforms, and more. These ideas are reviewed by nearly 150 expert judges from the local life science community who provided specific feedback on each idea and ultimately awarded nearly $40,000 in prize money to participating teams. This year the Best Idea for Patient Safety prize of $2,500 is being offered to highlight consumer-focused innovations in this field. Any undergraduate or graduate student in good standing from a Cascadia Corridor – Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia, as well as Alaska – college or university who is enrolled in a degree-seeking program is eligible to participate. 

Prizes offered during the 2025 competition will include: 

  *   $15,000 Grand Prize 

  *   $10,000 Second Place Prize 

  *   $5,000 Third Place Prize 

  *   $2,500 Best Idea Prizes 

     *   Best Idea for a Medical Device 

     *   Bets Idea in Digital Health 

     *   Best Idea for Addressing Health Access and Disparities 

     *   Best Idea for Patient Safety 

Mar. 14-16, 2025

Fisher Colloquium Hariri Building 4th Floor, Georgetown University

Healthcare Hackathon with AI (H2AI) is a 36-hour hackathon featuring clinicians, engineers, business leaders and students. Involving over 200 participants with backgrounds in computer science, medicine, and business, we bring together the brightest minds to create innovative prototypes in Al and medicine for better patient care.  
 
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge is sponsoring a $1,000 cash prize. It recognizes the best solution that addresses one or more of these five problem categories, and is consumer-driven: medications, procedural/surgical safety, patient care, infections, and diagnostic safety.

Mar. 22-23, 2025

1212 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90815 

BeachHacks is open to university students (that are 18+) of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced developers. Participants can be from any field of study, not just computer science or engineering. 
 
For the first year, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge is bringing consumer-focused patient safety tech to hackers, offering a prize to the team that has the best idea.

Mar. 28-30, 2025

HackPrinceton is Princeton’s leading hackathon where students around the country come hack for 36 hours! We have a healthcare track and the Patient Safety Technology Challenge will be offering a prize to the team that comes up with the best consumer-driven tech solution during the hackathon.

Mar. 29-30, 2025

Polsky Exchange North

1452 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615

Hacks is a 30-hour intercollegiate hackathon featuring hands-on workshops, mentorship opportunities, and collaborative projects for you and your peers. Leverage your programming, music production, UX design, game design, or artistic skills to develop a project addressing patient safety—an essential field dedicated to minimizing preventable harm from medical errors and improving healthcare outcomes. Engage with fellow students and innovators to create solutions and explore transformative approaches that enhance safety in medical settings, with the chance to win up to $500.

Apr. 4-6, 2025

KU Engineering Complex

HackKU is KU’s annual 36-hour hackathon where top university talent gathers to push the envelope by creating innovative solutions to real-world problems, learning cutting-edge technical skills through attending workshops, and networking with industry-leading engineers who serve as mentors and judges throughout the weekend.  

This year, hackers will have the option to compete to see who can create the best solution to solve a problem in the realm of patient health and safety! 

Apr. 14, 2025

Ken Garff University Club at Rice Eccles Stadium

Utah's premier health care innovation competition, the Bench to Bedside (B2B) program offers students from all backgrounds the opportunity to learn from health care professionals about the problems facing day-to-day patient care, and develop tangible, innovative solutions. In our program, students have the opportunity to learn about the five leading patient safety challenges and how their solution can reduce patient harm and save lives.