Rutgers Health Hack 2026

Brainstorm word cloud

Terms mined today from the brief, current gallery submissions, past winning projects in related Devpost hackathons and the discussion board. Bigger = more frequent (brief and winners weigh more). Click a word to see winning projects that mention it.

AI · notes · charts · patient · clinical · hospital · medical · data · revenue · follow-up · gap · panel · agents · web · experience · robert wood · wood johnson

Past winners in related hackathons

Winner-badged projects from ended Devpost hackathons that share a theme with this one. Read a few before you pick an idea.

• Rounds — Pre-flight for house-call veterinarians. (LOCALHOST 2.0)
• AI study assistant — A web app where students upload a pdf or lecture notes and the system can summarise the document, generate notes and create power points slides for their studies. (Nairobi Hack Day)
• LookCloser — A multi-agent safety net for incidental imaging findings, because 1 in 5 follow-ups never happen, and no rule engine can read a visit note to know why. (Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame)
• Extraction of LVEF from medical chart text — We extract an essential measure of heart failure patients from medical charts, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Accurate LVEF data would lead to improved patient care and hospital revenue. (AWS Health AI Hackathon)
• Veterinary Care Continuity Agent — Post-op veterinary follow-up, automated but not autonomous: Claude structures the notes and the owner conversation; deterministic rules decide escalation; the vet stays the clinical decision-maker. (LOCALHOST 2.0)
• LoopGuard Passport — Governed Clinical Loop Closure — Prevent the diagnostic harm that begins the moment a follow-up falls silent. (Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame)
• Bone Health Tracker — 1 in 3 women over the age of 50 years and 1 in 5 men will experience osteoporotic fractures in their lifetime. Bone Health Tracker will help them monitor their bone health and track their treatments. (AWS Health AI Hackathon)
• BrightPath — BrightPath is an interactive storytelling app for kids that helps caregivers notice early anxiety and depression signals through gentle, adaptive story play. (LOCALHOST 2.0)
• Ctrl+Alt+Heal — AI-powered clinical gap detection that finds the diagnoses hiding in your charts, so no condition goes uncoded and no revenue goes uncaptured. (Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame)
• Pandemic-PPR Helper — Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR) using AWS Health AI .EXPLORE -> DETECT -> RESCUE (AWS Health AI Hackathon)
• Relay — An agentic tool to sync the gap between on ground EMT and ER staff, keeping human in the loop and teams and OR ready before patient arrives. (LOCALHOST 2.0)
• Pre-Round Brief — An AI chief-of-staff for hospital physicians, a proactive PromptOpinion agent that delivers a prioritized morning briefing of every patient on the doctor's panel, before the commute is over. (Agents Assemble - The Healthcare AI Endgame)

Judging criteria

Criteria as listed on the official page; weights are not stated there, so they are drawn equal. source ↗

Timeline

Submission period (from Devpost): Oct 09 - 11, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 11, 2026 @ 5:00pm EDT.

How a beginner can ship

1. Read the rules page

   Check eligibility, team rules and what must be submitted.

2. Pick one idea from the word cloud

   Choose one problem and one user; cut everything else.

3. Build the smallest working version

   One flow that works end to end beats five half features.

4. Record the demo early

   Most Devpost judging leans on the video and description.