Hackathon and conference focuses on rural health care – March 20-22, Missoula, Montana

More than 70 percent of Montana’s population live in rural communities and rely, at least in part, on the local health care system for life-saving emergency services and primary medical care.

An event focusing on innovation for the future of rural medicine will be held in Missoula March 20-22 http://hackingruralmedicine.org at the University of Montana. The Hacking Rural Medicine Event is modeled after MIT’s Hacking Medicine Program and also will be facilitated by MIT’s team. MIT’s Hacking Medicine program has held more than two dozen events worldwide, helping to develop solutions to some of medicine’s toughest problems.

The Missoula event is the first of its kind focusing on rural health care. Montana’s Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership and UM’s Blackstone Launchpad program brought the MIT program to Missoula.

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/money/2015/03/05/missoula-conference-focuses-rural-health-care/24444087/