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Abstract
The BREATHE respiratory hackathons will bring together designers, technicians, engineers, patients, doctors and creative thinking entrepreneurs and innovators to develop synergistic innovations and devices with patient-centered wellness and treatment as the focus. These will take place on the same weekend in London (at Imperial), Boston (MIT MEdia Lab) and Israel (Technion University).
Teams will be given free rein to explore solutions to many of the problems respiratory sufferers face daily. That may include integrating multiple devices for nighttime and morning use, making existing equipment lighter weight, adding Bluetooth interfaces to equipment to allow control through a smartphone, or any number of ideas that push the status quo and challenge the respiratory industry to innovate around patient-centered wellness.
Results from all three Hackathons will be shared with the media and over 22,000 attendees at the European Respiratory Society Conference in Amsterdam on September 27, 2015.