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Samsung, Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT Hacking Medicine Award Cash Prizes to Healthcare Innovation Challenge WinnersBOSTON --(Business Wire)-- Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics, Co. Ltd. in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT Hacking Medicine awarded six teams with cash prizes totaling $6,000 for their creation of innovative mobile healthcare solutions. Each winning team is also now pre-qualified to submit refined proposals for a chance to compete for the Samsung Healthcare Innovation Grant, where $500,000 will be split amongst the winning teams. All Innovation Challenge participants received a Gear S device, the featured product of the event (Photo: Business Wire) "We challenged participants to create something that will change the trajectory of healthcare," said Peter Koo, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy at Samsung Electronics. "These incredible minds did just that by creating solutions that are technically-disruptive, commercially-viable and most importantly, clinically-impactful." The Innovation Challenge kicked off on November 7th with keynote presentations by three industry leaders: Samsung Senior Vice President Peter Koo; Dr. David Ting, Chief Medical Information Officer of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); and MIT (News - Alert) Hacking Medicine Co-Founder Zen Chu. Samsung provided hackathon participants with the Samsung Gear S, Galaxy Note 4 and expert engineering mentors to support twenty-one teams in the creation of scalable healthcare solutions that solve across all levels of the medical value chain. The 1 and ½ day event concluded Saturday evening after a panel of ten judges selected the following teams for their winning solutions:
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