CareTech Catalyst Hackathon: Build for Better Health
CareTech Catalyst: Build for Better Health
CareTech Catalyst is a one-day collaborative hackathon focused on building practical health-tech solutions that improve care, access, and patient experience. This event brings together people from diverse backgrounds—developers, designers, clinicians, researchers, founders, and students—to rapidly ideate, build, and demo meaningful healthcare prototypes in a single day.
Over the course of 8 hours, teams will work hands-on to turn real healthcare challenges into tangible solutions. The emphasis is on collaboration, learning, and experimentation—not polished products or perfect business plans. CareTech Catalyst is designed to be fast-paced, welcoming, and impact-driven, encouraging participants to explore how technology can make healthcare more accessible, efficient, and humane.
1. Hackathon Overview
Purpose
Healthcare innovation often moves slowly due to complexity, regulation, and high barriers to entry. CareTech Catalyst exists to challenge that norm.
This hackathon aims to:
Bring together technical and non-technical contributors in an open, creative environment
Encourage rapid experimentation, collaboration, and hands-on learning
Lower the barrier to building meaningful health-tech solutions
Celebrate community-driven innovation in medical and health technology
The goal is not perfection, but turning good ideas into working prototypes within a single day.
Theme
“Build for Better Health”
Participants are encouraged to work on ideas that:
Improve patient experience or health outcomes
Support clinicians, caregivers, or healthcare systems
Enable prevention, early detection, or smarter decision-making
Make healthcare more accessible, efficient, or humane
Teams are free to choose their own problem space within medical and health technology. Example areas include (but are not limited to):
Patient triage and decision support
Care coordination and workflow tools
Health education and engagement
Preventive care and wellness
Accessibility and inclusion in healthcare
Target Participants
Estimated 60–80 participants
We welcome people from all backgrounds, including:
Engineers & Developers – Web, mobile, data, AI/ML, backend, frontend
Designers – UX/UI, service design, product design
Healthcare Professionals – Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, public health experts
Researchers & Data Scientists – Health data, analytics, clinical research
Founders, Students, and Health-tech Enthusiasts
Anyone passionate about improving healthcare, regardless of technical experience
No prior health-tech or medical background is required.
Language
Mainly English (Friendly Japanese)
Please be mindful that some participants may not be fluent in either language. Let’s aim for clear, kind, and inclusive communication.
2. Hackathon Content
2.1 Time Schedule
12:30 Doors Open / Registration
13:00 Welcome, Event Overview & Supporter Introductions
13:30 Team Networking & Ideation
14:00 Start Hacking
19:00 Finish Hacking & Start Demos
19:30 Judging, Awards & Closing
20:00 Networking
20:30 Event Ends
2.2 How to Build a Team
Teams will be formed through Devpost and in-person (procedure will be communicated later).
You may join as an individual or come with friends
Team sizes are flexible, typically 2–4 people
Every participant must be part of a team
The goal is to form balanced, cross-disciplinary teams.
2.3 Demo / Pitch Session
Each team will present:
A short demo of what they built
A 3-minute explanation of:
The problem
The solution
Why it matters
No slides required. Simple demos and clear explanations are encouraged.
3. Rules
Team Formation
Team Size: Flexible (recommended 2–4)
Pre-formed teams are allowed
This is a fully offline, in-person event
Project Guidelines
Focus on building, not business plans
Aim for a working prototype or demo
Projects should be created during the hackathon
Use mock data or simulated environments if needed
Be bold—explore ideas that may not yet exist
Fairness, creativity, and learning matter more than polish.
4. Other Information
Food and snacks will be provided during the event
Mentors and supporters will be available to help teams
This is a friendly, beginner-welcome environment—ask questions freely
5. Organizers & Supporters
Organizers and Sponsors
Provides a no-code platform focused on enabling rapid prototyping for research and development in healthcare.
Provides GenAI assistant (MedGen Japan) built to empower Japanese doctors with trusted, practice-ready medical evidence in under one minute.
TRAE
The responsive coding agent that ships at full speed. TRAE is your 10x AI Engineer who can independently build software solutions for you.
Community Supporters
Antler: A global early-stage investor with the world’s fastest-growing portfolio of venture-backed companies — and now the world’s most active investor in AI.
Melting Hack: A collective organizing inclusive, high-energy hackathons and creative tech events
CreatorLabo: A co-creation group of entrepreneurs and creators, dedicated to fostering innovation and developing the next generation of leaders in entrepreneurship in Japan.
Takeoff Tokyo: A grassroots innovation hub supporting founders, technologists, and creatives
Sayama Ventures: A bilingual, globally minded venture builder and startup community based in Japan.