# 🏥 ACUHIT Hackathon — "Geleceğin Sağlık Teknolojileri"

### Acıbadem Üniversitesi | 7–9 Mart 2026

 

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## 📌 Introduction

 

**ACUHIT Hackathon** is a 48-hour innovation competition organized by students of Acıbadem University, supported by **Acıbadem Life** and **Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu**.

 

The event is themed **"Geleceğin Sağlık Teknolojileri" (Future Health Technologies)** and takes place at the **Kerem Aydınlar Campus**, running from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon — **7–9 March 2026**.

 

Approximately **75 participants** from diverse disciplines (medicine, computer engineering, biomedical engineering, health sciences, design, and business) will form teams of 4–6 and compete to build innovative, real-world solutions to challenges in the healthcare system.

 

The hackathon is structured in **two phases**:

 

- **Phase 1 – Data Analysis & Model Development:** Teams work on a dataset provided via Kaggle, develop models, and submit a 10-minute YouTube video summarizing their approach. 16 finalist teams are selected based on these submissions.

- **Phase 2 – Campus Marathon (48 hours):** Finalist teams arrive on campus and develop complete, deployable solutions to the problems they identified during Phase 1.

 

Winners are honored under the **"Kerem Aydınlar Sağlıkta Teknoloji ve İnovasyon Ödülleri"** — awards established in memory of Kerem Aydınlar, symbolizing the Aydınlar family's unwavering belief in the potential of young talent.

 

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## 🛠️ Tools and Technologies

 

Participants are expected to leverage a range of tools and technologies throughout the hackathon:

 

| Category | Tools / Technologies |

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| **Data Platform** | Kaggle (dataset distribution & competition environment) |

| **Machine Learning** | Python, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch |

| **NLP / Text Processing** | spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK |

| **Data Analysis** | Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn |

| **Collaboration** | GitHub, Google Colab, Notion |

| **Presentation** | YouTube (Phase 1 video submission), live demo (Phase 2) |

| **Communication** | Slack / Discord (event channels), Zoom/Meet for mentoring |

 

The core technical challenge revolves around:

- **NLP** — extracting structured clinical features from unstructured doctor notes, nurse observations, and discharge summaries

- **Dynamic Health Scoring** — building mathematically sound, clinically validated "next-generation health parameters"

- **Predictive Modeling** — forecasting patient prognosis, length of stay (LoS), and clinical resource needs using AI

 

APIs and additional technical resources will be provided jointly by the **Scientific Content Unit** and the **Technology Infrastructure Unit** prior to the event.

 

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## 💡 Inspiration

 

One of the biggest bottlenecks in today's healthcare systems is the inability to analyze heterogeneous patient data — lab results, vital signs, free-text clinical notes — from a unified perspective. Existing scoring systems are typically static and limited in scope.

 

ACUHIT Hackathon was born from the question:

 

> *"What if we could digitally represent the full health trajectory of a human being — and predict where it's heading?"*

 

Participants are not just asked to write code. They are challenged to **bridge medical literature and mathematics**, and to become pioneers in **digitally representing human health**.

 

The event is inspired by the vision of **Acıbadem University** as a leader in healthcare innovation, and the legacy of **Kerem Aydınlar** — whose name lives on through this campus and these awards, representing hope, youth, and the future of medicine.

 

We believe that the best solutions to healthcare's hardest problems come from **multidisciplinary teams** — where a physician thinks alongside an engineer, and a designer works beside a data scientist.

 

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## 📬 Contact Us & Support Channels

 

For questions, applications, and support, reach out through the following:

 

| Role | Name | Responsibility |

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| **Hackathon Director** | Ariorad Moniri | Strategic vision, sponsor & stakeholder relations |

| **Operations Coordinator** | Umut Kılınçkaya | Logistics, venue, food & beverage, on-site management |

| **Scientific Content & Program** | Murat Emre Öztürk | Problem definition, mentors, jury, evaluation criteria |

| **Technology Infrastructure** | Bahadır Kümüş | Internet, dev environments, datasets, APIs, tech support |

| **Finance & Partnerships** | Ömer Bahadır Kılıç | Budget, sponsorship packages, funding |

| **Design & Communications** | Sevda Reyyan Odabaş | Visual identity, social media, promotional materials |

 

> 📧 For general inquiries, contact the organizing team via the official ACUHIT communication channels (details shared upon registration).

 

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| **Dataset (Phase 1)** | [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com) — shared with registered participants |

| **Acıbadem University** | [acibadem.edu.tr](https://www.acibadem.edu.tr) |

| **Acıbadem Life** | [acibademlife.com.tr](https://www.acibademlife.com.tr) |

| **Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu** | [acibadem.com.tr](https://www.acibadem.com.tr) |

| **Acıbadem TEKMER** | Technology Development Center — post-hackathon incubation support |

| **Event Venue** | Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi, Kerem Aydınlar Kampüsü, A Blok 2. Kat |

 

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*ACUHIT Hackathon — where medicine meets technology, and ideas become impact.*