At Code Hack, participants identify, design, prototype, and pitch innovative solutions that benefit patients, their caregivers, and our healthcare system.
Thank you to all the participants, volunteers, coaches, mentors, judges and sponsors who joined Code Hack 2025! Check out the photos and the 2025 Code Hack Report. The fifth annual hackathon, held March 7 to 9, invited anyone to collaborate, with each person taking on a role based on the their experiences and skills, whether a frontline health care provider, patient, ally, builder or designer.
Learn more about the 2025 Code Hack winners and participants.
What is a hackathon?
Our hackathon is an opportunity for people who are passionate about improving health care to work together.
Over the course of a weekend, you have the chance to pitch what you see as the healthcare challenges in our region and contribute to what could potentially solve these issues.
Applicants do not have to work in health care and there is no cost to participate.
At Code Hack, EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
And we have one common goal: improving health care.
Central to the Code Hack weekend is the 24-hour sprint.
Once our participants have formed small working groups (around 5/6 people) and chosen the projects they want to work on (you also pitch these project ideas), they then have 24 hours to create solutions. This may be an app, it may be a care pathway, it may be signage, a website, or something for a treatment room, anything goes, YOU get to decide!
Winners receive opportunities to further develop their prototypes with Island Health’s Innovation Lab and other community partners. Watch this video to learn more about Code Hack.