MEDHA 2026 Medical Device Hackathon at DMIHER
BioNEST DMIHER
📌About the Event
MEDHA 2026 is a 36-hour Medical Device Hackathon organized by BioNEST DMIHER to encourage innovators to develop practical solutions for real-world clinical and healthcare challenges. The event brings together participants from medical, engineering, design, research, and innovation backgrounds to identify unmet clinical needs, collaborate across disciplines, build prototypes, and present their solutions before expert evaluators.
The hackathon is part of DMIHER’s broader healthcare and MedTech innovation ecosystem. BioNEST DMIHER operates at Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research campuses in Wardha and Nagpur and supports innovation across areas including MedTech, biotechnology, BioPharma, and allied fields.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Category: Healthcare Innovation / Medical Device Hackathon
- Duration: 36 hours
- Mode of Conduct: Offline / In-person
- Event Dates: 26–27 September 2026
- Starting Time: 9:00 AM onwards
- Venue: Datta Meghe Medical College (DMMC), Wanadongri, Hingna Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra
- Focus: Developing innovative medical-device and healthcare solutions for real clinical problems.
- Participants will get opportunities to:
- Identify and understand unmet clinical needs.
- Collaborate with participants from different disciplines.
- Design and develop healthcare solutions.
- Build and demonstrate prototypes.
- Present their innovations before expert evaluators.
- Compete for prizes.
📅 Important Dates
- Registration Status: Open as of 25 August 2026.
- Registration Deadline: 20 September 2026
- Hackathon Begins: 26 September 2026, 9:00 AM
- Hackathon Ends: 27 September 2026
- Duration: 36 hours
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- Eligibilty:
- Open to students interested in healthcare and medical-device innovation.
- Medical professionals can participate.
- Engineers are eligible.
- Designers can participate.
- Researchers are eligible.
- Innovators interested in solving healthcare challenges can also participate.
- The event particularly encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing medical, technical, research, and design expertise together.
🏆 Benefits for the Participants
- Participants will compete for attractive prizes.
- Participants also gain:
- Hands-on exposure to healthcare innovation.
- Experience in understanding real clinical problems.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with medical, engineering, research, and design participants.
- Practical experience in developing and prototyping medical-device solutions.
- An opportunity to showcase innovations before expert evaluators.