For Participants

This page is for participants in the 2022 Health Tech Jam.

Here you can find the instructions and rubric for the final video pitch and the link to submit your video pitch.

Looking for the Zoom meeting link? You can find this in your Eventbrite registration and in all recent emails from Eventbrite! Email sbond7@uic.edu for any assistance.

Prompts Heading link

 

COVID-19 Health Communications - a Patient Perspective

Ideas addressing this prompt should aim to solve a problem regarding COVID-19 Health Communications from the perspective of the patient. The idea should try to tackle (for example):

  • Personal health and wellness
  • Engaging with community during lockdown
  • Mental health during quarantine
  • Physical activity with safety
  • Nutrition communication
  • Much more!

COVID-19 Health Communications - a Clinician Perspective

Ideas addressing this prompt should aim to solve a problem regarding COVID-19 Health Communications from the perspective of the clinician. The idea should try to tackle (for example):

  • Organization for electronic health record systems
  • Data management
  • Communicating with patients about wellness
  • Online misinformation
  • Electronic and mobile health modalities

Submit your pitch!

Video Pitch Instructions Heading link

A group at the 2019 HTJ

You and your team have been tasked with one job: to address a problem in community health with a meaningful and impactful idea for any kind of health technology.

Your teams are made up of students from a wide variety of applied science and health backgrounds; as such, teams have varied ability to produce and design professional visuals or prototypes. Judges will be assessing these ideas not necessarily on the amount of production work towards a final application, but rather on the convincing argument and thought that has gone into the idea.

Your pre-recorded video pitch should have an idea that clearly aligns with any or all of the original prompts and should convince the viewer that your idea would be highly capable of succeeding. You can use a narrative, skit, or simply a clear and straight-forward explanation to back up your idea. Your team should provide visuals – whether created digitally or with pencil and paper – that explain what the idea/app would actually do and how it would look. You may even prototype your idea if you feel that it would strengthen your pitch!

Video pitches should be between three and five minutes, but no more than that. You can pre-record with Zoom or with any other program of your choice. You can use slides if you wish, or any other kind of visual that your team would like to choose.

A group at the 2019 HTJ

Once your pitch is complete, you must upload the video through this google form.

Your submission must be uploaded and complete by 4:00pm 2/13/2022. Any submissions after 4:00pm CST will be disqualified.

Winners will be announced on Sunday, 2/20 at 3:00pm in the same Zoom meeting as the other events.

Judging Rubric Heading link

Teams participating in the 2022 Health Tech Jam have been tasked with one job: to address a problem in community health, presented in the form of three prompts, with a meaningful and impactful idea for any kind of health technology.

These teams are made up of students from a wide variety of applied science and health backgrounds; as such, teams have varied ability to produce and design professional visuals or prototypes. In the following rubric, you will be assessing these ideas not necessarily on the amount of production work towards a final application, but rather on the convincing argument and thought that has gone into the idea.

  • 10 points: The idea clearly aligns with the original prompts.
  • 10 points: The way the team intends to solve the problem is unique; you have not seen or heard of a similar solution before.
  • 10 points: I feel that the idea would be successful in making a meaningful impact to solve the problem or address the prompts.
  • 10 points: The team presents a convincing argument to support that the idea would solve the problem.
  • 5 points: The team’s pitch has a storyline that addresses the initial prompts and is well thought out.
  • 5 points: The pitch is specific and to the point (does not go over 7 minutes).
  • 10 points: Visuals are used to explain the idea and help show what the app/idea will look like from the user’s perspective.
  • 5 points: All content in the design seems to play a meaningful role in the application/idea.
  • 5 points: Visuals that explain the app/idea are clean and aesthetically pleasing.
  • 30 points: I feel that this pitch and idea are highly deserving of the first place Innovation Award.