June 10, 2019
Student teams from all over the world competed in an Online Hackathon for the HL7 Student Track Cup Redmond 2019.
Duke’s team was one of three finalists, winning 3-day passes to the HL7 FHIR Development Days Conference. Three team members and their mentor, Dr. Ed Hammond traveled to Redmond, WA to compete against McMaster University from Hamilton, Ontario and Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Each team was given 10 minutes to present their work to a panel of FHIR experts who judged the projects based on the effective use of standards, originality of their solution and their presentation.
As a final project for their Data Representation and Standards course, the six students under the guidance of Dr. Ed Hammond created SPiRE: A Smart Phone App for Managing Adolescent Asthma.