What's new in 2024?

📝️ A Registration Form

Why a registration form?!? SIIM Hackathons have always been a casual experience and it remains so. However, you are highly encouraged to use this registration form for us to reliable disseminate information and annoucements. Help us help you get the most out of your SIIM Hackathon experience!

💡️ A New Idea Pitch Form

The freedom to pick and choose your projects that you know and love at the SIIM hackathon will always be there.

But for those who prefer a more structured approach, or want to browse ideas currently being mulled for this year's hackathon, we have an idea pitch form where you suggest ideas/projects to tackle this year and nominate a team lead (yourself or something else).

If you want to see what projects/ideas have been pitched, you can see the live results spreadsheet.

☢️ Yet Again, The SIIM Hackathon Dataset is Growing!

As of February, 2024. We are now up to 10 Patients and 54 ImagingStudy resources. Thanks to all volunteer & contributors.
As of May 27th, 2024, pathology studies have been integrated into the dataset (both FHIR and DICOM). Please note a few images were too big into GitHub and were placed on a public AWS S3 bucket. See note here.
Additionally, as of June 2024, a subset of our studies feature IHE Interactive Multimedia Report (IMR) hyperlinks to images. Look for the FHIR ImageSelection resources.

🔥️ FHIR R5 and R4

We started by improving our compliance with R4, which now resides in a dedicated GitHub branch.
Then, we upgraded the main GitHub branch to FHIR R5.
Big thanks to Mike Ross for all his volunteer work on this.
As of May 2024. Our server is running two instances of HAPI, the default one with R5 and another one with R4. See Hackathon Server for more details.

🤖️ Large Language Models (LLMs)

LLM is the word on everyone's mind, right? Last year we brought you access to OpenAI's GPT (the API behind ChatGPT) v3.5 and v4.0 through a partnership with MD.ai. Those two return this year, but are working on bringing even more. More announcements coming soon here! See Generative AI for more information.

We want you to proudly show off your SIIM Hackathon participation and help us spread the word. Please download our social media badge and use it to boast on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc).

🎉️ Celebrating 10 Years of SIIM Hackathons

Together as a community, we have achieved a lot over the years. We are very proud of the Hackathon's impact on the industry and are working on a cool inforgraphic to show off some relevant figures. Stay tuned!

📑️ Expanded Docs

We've just added a guide on exporting DICOM to JPG/PNG and FHIR-related Technologies.

🙌️ Kept from last year

The hybrid format with the longer timelime - it was a hit!
E-badges, yet again

💤️ Deprecated

Nothing yet!