Veterans Health Hackathon 2025
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.
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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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
Track Selection
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.
Open Invitation
The Hackathon is open to the public and VA employees, allowing participation outside of regular VA duties.
Teammate Selection
Upon arrival, teams will self-form through problem pitches and will stay together throughout the event.
Application Process
Applications are continuously reviewed and accepted until the end of the application cycle.
All Backgrounds
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.
Track Challenges
Timely Access to Care
Veterans, caregivers, and family members often face barriers to care even before recognizing their health needs. This track seeks solutions that proactively identify care needs, reduce wait times, streamline referral and scheduling workflows, and optimize care coordination, ultimately accelerating access and reducing the time from request to care delivery.
Optimize Enterprise-wide Costs and Operational Efficiency
VHA’s size and complexity present opportunities to reimagine core operational systems. This track invites bold ideas to optimize enterprise-wide processes, such as procurement, inventory, workforce planning, and clinical operations, to reduce waste, improve resource utilization, and reinvest savings into better Veteran care.
Improve Community Care Coordination
Veterans navigating community care often face fragmented experiences, from provider selection to follow-up documentation. This track seeks solutions that strengthen coordination between VA and community partners, ensure timely information exchange, support Veteran choice, and preserve continuity of care across the VA and non-VA care landscape.
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