About the challenge

The 2026 Vitalitics™ Hackathon. Vitalitics is a hackathon that fosters an immersive experience designed to educate and grow insight into the critical roles of Computer Science and Data Analytics in modern medicine.

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Explore the intersection of clinical care and data science to find a problem worth solving.

Requirements

What to Build

Create an innovative project, product, healthcare app, or idea that would help bridge the gap between data analytics and modern clinical medicine.

This hackathon is an open-ended and beginner-friendly hackathon that allows submissions covering a wide range of medical or health-tech topics. We also allow submissions in all mediums and different stages of development.

What to Submit

A YouTube or Google Drive video describing your project (5 Minutes Maximum) and a link or document of the source program (any medium). Designs and prototypes are permitted.

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Prizes

5 non-cash prizes
First Place
1 winner

Satisfies all of the judging criteria to the utmost degree.

Second Place
1 winner

Demonstrates exceptional overall quality and strongly fulfills all core evaluation criteria.

Third Place
1 winner

Shows great execution, innovation, and solid alignment across the evaluation criteria.

Best Technical Execution
1 winner

Awarded to the project that demonstrates the highest level of technical skill, backend/frontend engineering complexity, and clean code architecture.

Best Design
1 winner

Awarded to the project that features the most visually polished user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) flow.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Yash Patil

Yash Patil
Hackathon Operations Manager

Smayan Ammasani

Smayan Ammasani
Hackathon Outreach Manager

Judging Criteria

  • Relevancy
    How effectively does your project combine medicine and data informatics? Submissions should demonstrate a clear intersection between healthcare/clinical concepts and predictive data science or engineering principles.
  • Technical Execution
    The complexity, clean architecture, and technical skill demonstrated in your code. Judges will look at the stability of the prototype, the logic of your backend/frontend engineering, and how effectively you utilized your development tools.
  • Presentation
    The design, user interface (UI), and user experience (UX) flow of your prototype. Your project should be intuitive to navigate, visually polished, and effectively communicated through your demo video and written documentation.
  • Innovation
    The novelty and uniqueness of your approach. Does your project offer a creative solution to an old problem, or tackle a completely fresh challenge in a way that stands out from typical applications?
  • Impact
    The ultimate potential your solution has to solve real-world problems. How effectively does this project improve clinical workflows, assist healthcare professionals, or better patient outcomes?

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