CureHacks / SAT JAN 9 TO SUN JAN 10 2027 / THE FALLSER CLUB / PHILADELPHIA
24 hours to rebuild the software healthcare workers fight every day.
A free overnight hackathon in Philadelphia. Healthcare workers bring the problems. Builders form teams and ship. Sunday ends with demos in front of judges from health systems, startups and investors.
Registration opens soon
- Hours
- 24Hours
- Builders and healthcare workers
- 200+Builders and healthcare workers
- Tracks
- 5Tracks
- To attend
- $0To attend
How It Works
Step 1
Healthcare workers bring the problems
Nurses, physicians, pharmacists and operations leads describe one workflow that eats their week. Scheduling, referrals, prior authorization, records, care coordination. Problems and workflows only, never patient data.
Step 2
Builders form teams
Engineers, designers, students and founders pick the problem they care about. Come with a team or find one in the room. Nobody gets assigned.
Step 3
Build for 24 hours
Healthcare workers stay on hand to answer questions, and mentors from sponsor companies help teams get unstuck. Meals and snacks the whole way through.
Step 4
Demo and judging
Teams demo to a panel of healthcare workers, investors and industry judges. Winners in every track. The teams that keep building after the weekend stay in the Cureon network.
Tracks
Chronic disease management
Tools that help patients and care teams manage conditions that never go away, between visits and not just during them.
Preventive care and wearables
Catch it earlier. Screening, monitoring and nudges built on the data people already carry around.
Caregiver support
For the family members and home health workers doing coordination work no system was built for.
Mental health tech
Access, intake, follow up and the paperwork that stands between people and care.
Longevity
Software for living well for longer, from aging in place to the care teams around older adults.
Schedule
Saturday Jan 9
- 9:00 AMCheck in opens
- 9:30 AMSponsor booths
- 11:00 AMOpening, problems and tracks
- 11:30 AMHacking starts
- 12:00 PMLunch
- 7:00 PMDinner
- OvernightBuild
Sunday Jan 10
- 8:00 AMBreakfast
- 11:30 AMCode freeze and submissions
- 12:00 PMDemos and judging
- 2:00 PMWinners and closing
Times may shift. The final schedule goes out to registered hackers.
Sponsor CureHacks
Put your company in front of 200+ engineers, students and healthcare workers who spend a weekend building for the exact problems you work on. Sponsors judge, mentor, recruit and see every team before anyone else.
The best fit for most companies is a track. Your name goes on it, you set the challenge, and someone from your team picks the winner.
Track sponsor
One of five tracks presented by your company. You set the challenge and the prize, judge the finalists and meet those teams first.
Platinum
Premium booth, top logo placement on shirts, badges and signage, a judging seat, five minutes on stage at opening, and founding partner status at every future CureHacks.
Gold
Full booth on the main floor, prominent logo, a mentor or judge seat and a workshop slot.
Silver
Shared table and your logo on shirts, badges and the website.
Meal sponsor
Cover lunch, dinner or breakfast for everyone in the room. Your name on screen when it lands, and your team is welcome to serve it.
In kind
API credits, sandboxes, hardware, swag or prizes earn the benefits of the matching tier.
Cureon events have been backed by Lovable, Cursor, Wispr Flow and Poppi.
Questions
- Who can come?
- Engineers, designers, students, founders and anyone who works in healthcare. You do not need to have been to a hackathon before.
- How much does it cost?
- Nothing. Food, drinks and the venue are covered by our sponsors.
- Do I need a team?
- No. Plenty of people come solo and find a team around a problem on Saturday morning.
- I work in healthcare and do not code. Should I come?
- Yes. The weekend does not work without you. You bring the problem, you tell teams when they are wrong, and you help judge what actually helps.
- Will there be patient data?
- Never. Healthcare workers describe problem categories and workflows. Teams build with public or synthetic data only.
- How do I sponsor?
- Email info@cureonhealth.org and we will send the full sponsorship packet with pricing.