Innovators build apps with Spezi at the Rutgers Health Hack 2025
Vishnu Ravi, MD led an exciting digital health innovation track at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Health Hack on October 10-12 with over 320 participants! Teams competed in an app-building challenge to create real-world solutions for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital using the Stanford Spezi framework.
Oliver Aalami and Aydin Zahedivash joined Vishnu live from Palo Alto to host an engaging workshop introducing participants to the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign innovation process and our digital health tools. Participants had the unique opportunity to beta test and build their solutions upon an exciting new “vibe-code” friendly version of Spezi that allows for rapid prototyping of digital health apps across multiple platforms using AI coding tools. Projects built ranged from workflow tools to clinical trial matching and improving screening tests. 🚀
🏆 The winning team developed an AI assistant for new inpatient physicians — the “Hospitalist Companion” — designed to streamline access to critical workflow knowledge, a major pain point shared by their clinical mentors. They were awarded a $2,000 prize and will continue developing and implementing this promising and practical solution!
👏 Congratulations to all the participants, mentors, and organizers for an inspiring weekend of innovation, collaboration, and impact in digital health! Special thanks to Jay Naik, Naveena Yanamala, MS, PhD, FASE, Ethan Halm, Allison Marcucci, John (Jack) Hemphill, Roshan Hussain and team for the opportunity to collaborate on this event.
