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EDDIH: Technical Achievement Prize at the WA Health Hackathon
An Emergency Department Digital Intelligence Helper for WA Health's ER-staging challenge, built on synthetic health data in 10 days. It won the Technical Achievement Prize (2nd place).
- Organisation
- WA Health Hackathon 2023 (WADSIH × WA Department of Health)
- My role
- Lead developer, team Data Ducks
- When
- October 2023
- 2ndTechnical Achievement Prize
- Top 5finalist from all competing teams
- 10 daysfrom challenge to finale pitch
- Incoming ER requestsphone requests captured in a Power App
- Triage intelligenceML on synthetic health data
- SimulationED flow and capacity
- Staging planbetter emergency-department planning
The challenge
The 2023 WA Health Hackathon, run by the WA Data Science Innovation Hub with the WA Department of Health and sponsored by Microsoft, was the first in WA to use synthetic health data. Our team, Data Ducks (Van Zyl Kruger, Juan Pablo Navarro Rueda, Melanie Dietrich and me), took on the ER-staging challenge: improving patient flow and planning in emergency departments.
What we built
EDDIH, the Emergency Department Digital Intelligence Helper: a real-time triage proof of concept combining AI, machine learning, IoT and simulation. The judges described it as “using machine learning to create a simulation model to enable better planning in emergency departments.”
As lead developer, I built the Power App that captured and displayed incoming phone requests to the ER. This was the front door of the solution.
Outcome
- Selected as one of five finalists after the pitch round.
- Won the Technical Achievement Prize (2nd place) at the finale on 19 October 2023, judged by Jodie Hanns MLA, Dr George Eskander and Nasir David.