The Agha Khan University (AKU) effectively directed their first-ever medical hackathon

The Agha Khan University (AKU) effectively directed their first-ever medical hackathon, the MIT Grand Hack 2016 roused, "CCIT Hack 2016" at its Karachi campus.

Facilitated by an open discussion the Critical Creative Innovative Thinking (CCIT) and coordinated at finding imaginative arrangements in crisis conditions, the occasion crossed more than three days and finished up this Monday.

The hackathon took a shot at finding new answers for difficulties being confronted in the emergency rooms and pulled in numerous specialists from the medicinal sciences field. Builds additionally tossed into apply technical innovations to the cause. Around 80 members collaborated in eleven groups and contributed their thoughts front of the juristic board.

The co-administrator of the occasion arranging board Muhammad Taha Anwar specified that the hackathon will change the customary thinking and will convey innovativeness to the methodology. Previous ER AKUH head Dr Junaid Razzak were additionally present and focused on the significance of inventive ER innovations saying, "Generally, human services frameworks are various leveled, hazard opposed and ease back to change. The absence of advancement, particularly in situations with couple of assets, has not conveyed positive social insurance results for the larger part".

Group HistorER won the medical hackathon with the 'Best Idea' grant while the Team JackED stood runner-up. Group HistorER gave an answer for spare time in ER by utilizing electronic innovation. The group utilized cards including QR code to record medicinal history of a patient which after filtering could give sufficient learning of the fundamental sign history of the patient. The group JackED built up a model ER outfit to be utilized rather than the standard outfits by the medicinal staff amid an ECG.

The first-ever hackathon of AKU denote the new skylines of medical advancements. The hackathons have ended up being useful in enhancing designing, and critical thinking aptitudes of the students.