Enter: HITLAB Women’s Health Tech Challenge

Deadline: 19 October, 2020

HITLAB has announced a call for entries for the Women’s Health Tech 2020 Fall Challenge.

This competition is aimed at identifying emerging technologies that use innovative endeavours in digital healthcare technology to improve the state of women’s health on a global scale.

As healthcare technology continues to change the world, health companies are looking to opportunities created by these digital advances to create applications and systems to improve medical care and the provision of healthcare among women.

HITLAB seeks innovators that use digital technology to improve medical areas through innovation and digital solutions that impact women.

Benefits

  • Grand prize is US$10,000
  • Second-place finisher will get UD$20,000 worth of in-kind legal services
  • Third-place finisher will receive health innovation alliance award
  • Fourth-place finisher will receive NIHUB Women’s Health Tech Innovation award
  • Fifth-place finisher will receive Women’s Health Tech Spirit of Entrepreneurship award
  • Up to US$15,000 of in-kind services
  • Up to ten hours of in-kind services of strategy, design, or consulting valued at US$5,000
  • Media exposure package valued at a maximum value of US$1,000.00 provided by Women of Wearables

Eligibility

  • Open only to individuals who are 18 years old or above, are legal residents of countries where such challenges are allowed by the laws of those countries (excluding the residents of Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria)
  • Contestants must own or have access at their own expense to a computer, an internet connection, and any other electronic devices, documentation, software or other items a contestant may deem necessary to create and enter their submission
  • Each team shall appoint one individual as the team captain to represent and act, including registering and entering a submission, on behalf of said team

To enter and for more information, click here.

Photo source: Amref Health Africa

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