All application developers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts were invited to build applications designed for the $300B retail healthcare industry. Sikka’s API won the best health API award for 2017 and 2019 from API World.
Congratulations to all of Sikka’s first-ever external Hackathon winners, and all of the participants who helped turn innovative ideas into realities.
A big shout-out to all others who contributed to the success of our event – our amazing judges and Sikka team members. We look forward to the next Hackathon!
First Prize: Medcohere, a referral and scheduling platform bridging the communication gap between dentists and specialists, thereby optimizing a process that has long been wildly inefficient, slow and manual. The Medcohere team was led by Massachusetts-based Suneel Kandru, a practicing endodontist who sits on the faculties of both the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and NYU Langone Medical Center, and also included Sankarsan Parida and Babu Rao.
Second Prize: Refera, an online management platform which allows dentists to send and track their specialist referrals to anyone. Southern California resident Kurt Gooding, a self-described coder, headed the Refera team, working with Dr. Hessam Ahani of the San Francisco Bay Area, thereby creating a truly Californian team.
Third Prize: SikkaRx, which monitors patients’ prescriptions – down to details around timing and dosages taken – using not only Sikka’s API but Apple’s HealthKit. The India-based team, which is not affiliated with Sikka in any way, was led by Vinayak Bipin Joshi.
Read the full press release here.
The winning team was awarded cash and application credits worth up to $21,000 ($2,000 cash and 2 months of a Gold API license for up to 50 individual practice customers of your application).
Cash and application credits worth up to $10,500 ($1,000 cash and 1 month of a Gold API license for up to 50 individual practice customers of your application).
Cash and application credits worth up to $7,000 ($500 cash and 1 month of a Silver API license for up to 25 individual practice customers of your application).
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