%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Hacking Health: Bottom-up Innovation for Healthcare %A Jeeshan Chowdhury %K hackathon %K hacking health %K healthcare %K social innovation %K technology entrepreneurship %X Healthcare is not sustainable and still functions with outdated technology (e.g., pagers, paper records). Top-down approaches by governments and corporations have failed to deliver digital technologies to modernize healthcare. Disruptive innovation must come from the ground up by bridging the gap between front-line health experts and innovators in the latest web and mobile technology. Hacking Health is a hackathon that is focused on social innovation more than technical innovation. Our approach to improve healthcare is to pair technological innovators with healthcare experts to build realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line healthcare problems. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 31-35 %8 07/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/579 %N 7 %1 Hacking Health Jeeshan Chowdhury is completing an MD/DPhil at the Universities of Alberta and Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Jeeshan’s academic research focuses on emerging healthcare technologies, namely developing novel point-of-care diagnostics and quantitative methods to measure the impact of health information systems. As a Sauvé Scholar, Jeeshan has co-founded HackingHealth.ca to foster health technology innovations. He also launched EnlightHealth.com, a health tech startup that innovates web and mobile solutions for patients, providers, and clinics. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/579