A live experiment in better health

StanfordHealthHacks

Stanford Medicine Catalyst and Stanford's Center for Digital Health will bring clinicians, technologists, designers, and wild ideas together. Leave with something that could change how care feels.

NOV 6 - 8, 2026
Stanford Research Park  |
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Build the unexpected
About the experiment

Healthcare needs more unusual teams.

Stanford Health Hacks brings students, clinicians, engineers, designers, researchers, business thinkers, and digital health leaders together to tackle pressing healthcare challenges with AI and emerging technology.

The weekend is built to do more than produce demos. It is a launchpad for relationships, viable Stanford innovations, and ideas that can keep moving toward real-world care long after the final pitch.

3Days to build
7Challenge tracks
1Demo Day
Possible collaborators
Different disciplines. Shared DNA.
Challenge tracks

Choose a systemto shake up.

01 / ACCESS

Connecting Care

Close the distance between people, providers, and the right care at the right moment.

02 / ECONOMICS

Paying for Care

Rethink affordability, navigation, incentives, and the financial experience of health.

03 / PRECISION

Specialized Care

Design for complex conditions, expert pathways, and highly individualized needs.

04 / INTELLIGENCE

Decision Support

Help clinicians and patients make clearer, safer, better-informed decisions.

05 / DETECTION

Diagnostics

Find meaningful signals earlier, faster, and with greater confidence.

06 / OPERATIONS

Clinical Workflow Tools

Give care teams time back by making everyday systems work more intelligently.

07 / PEOPLE

Consumer Health

Build trusted tools that help people understand, manage, and improve their health.

Move ideas into circulation
Speakers + mentors

Borrow experience. Return with momentum.

Speaker name

AI + digital health leader

Speaker name

Clinician + Stanford advisor

Speaker name

Founder + translation mentor

Weekend schedule

A loose plan for intense collaboration.

Friday
Nov 6

Doors, dinner + unexpected introductions
Opening program + challenge briefs
Find your people. Form your team.

Saturday
Nov 7

Breakfast + full build mode
Mentor rounds + expert office hours
Prototype pulse check

Sunday
Nov 8 / Demo Day

Final build sprint
Project submissions
Pitches, judging + next-step opportunities
FAQs

Useful answers,minus the waiting room

A fast, collaborative weekend for turning real health challenges into prototypes, experiments, and new teams.
No. Strong teams need clinical insight, design, storytelling, research, hardware, policy, operations, and lived experience.
Any Stanford affiliate with an active SUNet ID.
It is free.
A laptop if you use one, anything needed for your prototype, and a willingness to work with people unlike you.
Three days.Seven challenges.One healthier future.