Experience of conducting the first Russian cardiology hackathon Cardio data hack

Abstract

This article is about the experience in organizing and conducting the first Russian cardiology hackathon Cardio data hack UFA 2022 which took place in Ufa in November 2022. It describes the preparation stages and organizational conditions of the hackathon conducting, the ways of interacting between the event organizer and participants, and the methods of evaluating the tasks. The first hackathon case was the recognition of ventricular bigeminy in patients with 24-hour ECG recording; the second case was performing a meta-analysis of the studies which assessed efficacy and safety of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation and chronic renal failure stages IV and V. The hackathon attracted 179 registered participants who formed 42 teams, but further only 37 of them confirmed their participation and formed 8 teams. 7 teams gave the final solution of the tasks, and 5 of them presented their results with 3 of them giving solutions for both cases. Eventually, there were obtained the prototypes of solution for bigeminy recognition during Holter monitoring and high-quality meta-analyses evaluating the efficacy and safety of oral anticoagulants.