Mylan Hackathon

Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company with an ambitious misson: To provide the world’s 7 billion people access to high quality medicine and set new standards in healthcare. As an innovator in their industry, Mylan is one of the few pharmaceutical companies in the world to host hackathons.

The challenge myself and a small team of developers selected:

"How can information collected by Microsoft Band 2.0 be used to paint meaningful “health pictures?”

Consumer wearable technology is a huge market usually associated with wellness and physical activity. But the expanding capabilities of these devices are providing even-richer insights into wearer’s true states of health.

The Microsoft Band 2.0 has many next-generation sensors not available in other similar devices. These include a: Tri-axis accelerometer, gyrometer, barometer, ambient light, skin temperature and capacitive sensors, microphone, built-in GPS and continuous optical heart rate monitors.

With less than 14 hours to create a solution for our challenge, 3 presentations, and lots of Red Bull we were able to reconfigure the band to send live data to our mobile app and online patient portal bringing our overall idea to life. We ended up taking second place in the Professional Division.

Our solution to the challenge was MyLife, the fastest way to track your health, along with getting the medical attention you need, when you need it fast.

This vision is driven by two key components: 

First, is enabling technology to ask for assistance on your behalf when you are unable to by algorithmically tracking biometric and other sensor feeds.

Secondly, is enabling EMS responders to see a landscape picture of your health profile along with biometric data leading up to an emergency situation before arriving on the scene.