Medical Device Hackathon (MEDHA) is a hackathon for final year students and young working professionals to explore medical device innovation.

There are participants, who form teams of four with medicine, design, electronics and mechanical backgrounds. They brain-storm new ideas, sketch the concepts, fabricate proof-of-concepts and present them to an expert jury panel. (In eMEDHA these activities are performed virtually).

The problems posed to the participants are obtained from expert doctors in local hospitals. The organizing team curates the problems by checking for market need, innovation potential and technical feasibility. Then short videos are created for showing to the participants. Each team is mentored by a senior innovator or entrepreneur from BETIC network.

Multiple MEDHA are organized every year, during May-July weekends, at multiple partner institutes who wish to set up or have recently set up medical device innovation facilities. It strengthens the local innovation eco-system by bringing teachers, researchers and students from different disciplines

together, as well as connecting them with local doctors, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.