Three-time Gov-Hack winner in Beast Mode

GOLD Coast outfit Beast Mode has picked up three titles at the international open data event GovHack.

The team’s Emergency Department Load Forecasting is like a daily weather forecast for hospital emergency departments, helping hospitals anticipate patient loads and assign resources accordingly.

Beast Mode took out the Health Hack (International); Innovation Hack; and Into the New Hack categories.

Now in its eighth year, GovHack is the world’s largest open data hackathon and Australia’s largest hackathon.

More than 2500 participants in 36 locations across Australia and New Zealand took part this year.

The Queensland Government has published more than 2400 datasets and 9000 resources covering transport, traffic, justice, land use, housing, tourism, births and deaths, and many other areas.

For more information about the winning teams from GovHack 2017, visit https://govhack.org/nationalinternationalwinners/