Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company with an ambitious mission: To provide the world’s 7 billion people access to high quality medicine and set new standards in healthcare.
As an innovator in our industry, Mylan is excited to be one of the few pharmaceutical companies in the world to host hackathons.
The 2016 Mylan Hackathon is an opportunity for students and professionals to connect, collaborate and communicate with people at Mylan to develop solutions that address real-world challenges.
We’ll provide a terrific space for hacking, great food and awesome prizes. Mylan coaches and engineers will be on hand throughout the event to help your team develop its solution.
We awarded more than $18,000 in cash and prizes last year, with the top team taking home $1,000 per person! We will provide top-notch giveaways at the door. This year’s prizes will be even bigger and better!
Because you "hack for a cause," meet people who want to change the world of healthcare
and it's a good time.
Saturday, March 19, 2016 - Sunday, March 20, 2016
Students, engineers, developers, designers, analysts, tinkerers, mavens, game-changers.
Come prepared with a great idea to one of our challenges. You will have to work hard to win, but believe us, it will be worth it.
Develop an innovative solution to one of our challenges and your team could take home the prize.
How could access to information overcome obstacles to HIV treatment in emerging markets?Two-thirds of the world's population does not have ready access to the Internet. Fortunately, widespread efforts under way are changing this landscape, such as Facebook's Internet.org. As an example, HIV patients face stigmas, poverty and other social barriers limiting their access to quality care. As people in emerging markets around the globe come online and experience newfound access to information, how can we use technology to help them understand diseases like HIV and why proper treatment is key to having a healthy future? |
How can we leverage existing technology to increase "access" to more people in India?Currently, the Mylan India commercial sales organization primarily focuses on marketing our products and services in metropolitan areas across India. However, approximately 68% of the Indian population lives in rural areas. How can we leverage existing technology to create new models of communication between our sales organization, doctors, pharmacists and consumers, regardless of where they are located? |
How can we better understand the state of "access" in the world?With the enormous amount of data from a host of different organizations available on the Internet today, we now are able to gain new insights into the state of world health and understand patients like never before. How can we leverage public datasets and application programming interfaces (API) to build insights and visualizations on which diseases are most burdensome to patients, hospitals and global economies? |
How could we capture potential adverse events/adverse drug reaction notifications?Prior to bringing a drug to market, pharmaceutical companies undertake extensive trials in accordance with requirements set forth by regulatory agencies. After a product goes to market, pharmaceutical companies then track instances of Adverse Events and Adverse Drug Reactions for the drugs they manufacture and sell. These events frequently are posted on online via news feeds and social media. How can we use technology to search for this information and identify the relevant company and their contact information? |
How could we build a comprehensive Reference Listed Drug-Innovator Product Portal?A generic drug is defined as a product that is comparable to a brand/reference listed drug product in dosage form, strength, quality and performance characteristics, and intended use. Information on branded medicine often is reviewed or collected by searching regulatory websites. How could we collate reference listed drug product information across various regulatory agency websites to generate reports, including the product name, marketing authorization holder, active ingredient, dosage form, strength and presentations/product information leaflets for all markets of interest? |
All different participant skill sets are welcome. However, this is an event focused on building, and each participant will be expected to contribute to the development of a working app, so each team should have at least one experienced developer.