My Team's Winning Project at the TU Dublin Hackathon

I'm excited to share that my team won the "Best Patient Benefit" award at the TU Dublin Digital Health Innovation Challenge. My team, consisting of Adrian Donnelly, David Byrne, Thomas Lynch, and myself, Grzegorz Maniak, worked tirelessly overnight to develop a solution that would benefit patients struggling with chronic illnesses.

Sadly this is my final year at TU Dublin, and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in these hackathon for the past three years. It's been an incredible learning experience.

Our Project

Our project focused on simplifying the management of chronic conditions through an AI phone service. We designed this innovative tool to eliminate the need for apps or smartphones, making it more accessible and user-friendly for patients. Our goal was to make healthcare more efficient and patient-centric.

I was the team lead for this project, and I was focused on ensuring that our solution was technologically sound and user-friendly. I personally worked on the AI System and Clinician Backend, we used a combination of Python, Typescript, Cloudflare and Bland AI to create this solution, you can check out the conversation flow in the image below:

Bland AI Conversation Flow

The Hackathon Experience

The hackathon was a jam packed 24 hours, with 78 students from TU Dublin dividing into 20+ teams to tackle five challenges set by Tallaght University Hospital. We were honored to have Senior Cloud Solutions Architects from AWS provide expertise and guidance throughout the process, although, we did not use AWS services in our solution, we did ask for advice on how we could implement it in the future.

We worked closely with clinicians to gain a deeper understanding of the brief and ensure our solution met the needs of both patients and healthcare professionals. The support we received from TUH and AWS was invaluable, and their presentations on ethics, data, cyber security, and GDPR were crucial in developing a technological solution that prioritized patient well-being.

The Outcome

We're thrilled to have won the "Best Patient Benefit" award for our project. It's an incredible feeling knowing that our work has the potential to make a real difference in people's lives.

What's Next?

We are currently exploring opportunities to further develop our project and potentially bring it to market, we have reached out to the startup incubator at TU Dublin.