Veterans Health Hackathon 2025

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Hosted by Tampa VA Medical Center

August 22-24, 2025, at Tampa Marriott Water Street | Tampa, FL

Now Accepting Applications for the 2025 Hackathon — Click here to apply.

Following the success of the inaugural 2024 Hackathon—Tampa VA Medical Center, in collaboration with VHA Innovation Ecosystem, Microsoft, and MIT Hacking Medicine—is excited to launch the second Hackathon to design solutions addressing the top challenges in Veteran health care.

Creating Solutions to Veterans' Health Challenges

Calling all innovators, makers, design-obsessives, scientists, nurses, doctors, entrepreneurs, programmers, engineers, researchers, artists, UX and CX designers, health care futurists and more. Join us in making a difference for Veterans. This event brings top minds together from VA, academia, and public and private sectors to reimagine Veteran health care. Experienced mentors join subject matter experts to guide “hackers” through this opportunity to revolutionize the care we provide for Veterans.

Interested Participants

Up to 300 participants, drawn primarily from Florida's VA Health Systems (VISN08), their academic affiliates, and the Tampa Bay community will work directly on solutions. Additional hackers will be selected through a nationally competitive process to ensure a diversity of backgrounds and expertise.

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Innovate for Impact:

Veterans Health Hackathon 2025

The Hackathon is a three-day event where participants are teamed up with diverse peers and expert mentors. Equipped with generative AI tools provided by Microsoft and de-identified data from VA, teams will co-create solutions that address VA's most urgent and strategic priorities.

Join us August 22, 2025 to August 24, 2025

Tampa Marriott Water Street
505 Water St, Tampa, FL 33602

What to Expect

Hackers will be assigned tracks based on their application. Each hacker will have the opportunity to express interest in their preferred tracks in the application.

The Hackathon is open to the public and VA employees, allowing participation outside of regular VA duties.

Upon arrival, teams will self-form through problem pitches and will stay together throughout the event.

Applications are continuously reviewed and accepted until the end of the application cycle.

Anyone ready to positively impact Veteran health care including Veterans, Clinicians, Scientists, Designers, Entrepreneurs, Administrators, Business Professionals, Engineers, Programmers, Researchers, and Artists.

Strategic Focus:

Hackathon Targets Priorities for Veteran Health

Veterans Health Hackathon 2025 focus areas are based on VA’s strategic priorities and emerging needs. Hackathon Track Challenges coming soon.

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Track Challenges

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Connect Veterans to the soonest and best care

Address scheduling delays through solutions to enhance telehealth, improve accessibility, match clinical expertise to Veteran needs, align resources for quality care, standardize processes, and optimize care coordination to ensure timely access to the best possible care for Veterans.

Prevent Veteran Suicide (Mental Health)

Focus on aspects like modernizing the technology behind virtual care, new care models and modalities, employee training, implementing diverse and inclusive care practices, and advancing research and specialized care for various Veteran populations.

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Hire faster and more competitively

Improve VA's hiring process by introducing solutions to expedite recruitment, enhance the onboarding experience, reduce operational inefficiencies, and develop advanced hiring technologies, aiming to make VA a leader in 21st-century healthcare employment.