Rajna Knez
Adjunct Professor of Health Science
The SkaS Express project is a hackathon in which students in healthcare and systems development work together with healthcare professionals. The purpose is to investigate whether hackathons as a working method can help address challenges in healthcare.
Hackathon at Skaraborg Hospital
The project is being conducted as a hackathon at Skaraborg Hospital in Skövde, under the title SkaS Express.
Participants are organized into cross professional groups consisting of students from the medical, nursing, and software engineering programmes, as well as healthcare staff and other hospital employees. In addition, mentors, coaches, representatives from the hospital management, and individuals involved in organizing the event will participate.
Hackathon as a working method
Aim: To analyse and describe how the hackathon concept, as a working method, can be applied to address challenges within healthcare.
What is a hackathon?
A hackathon is a time-limited and intensive working session in which participants collaborate in groups to develop ideas, prototypes or solutions to specific problems.
Hackathons are often used within IT and systems development, but have also become an established working method in other fields, such as healthcare.
The word hackathon is a combination of the words “hack” and “marathon” and refers to focused work over a limited period of time, usually ranging from a few hours to several days.
