MIT COVID-19 Datathon: data without boundaries

Eva M Luo^{1

2}, Sarah Newman³, Maelys Amat⁴, Marie-Laure Charpignon⁵, Erin R Duralde⁴, Shrey Jain⁶, Aaron R Kaufman⁷, Igor Korolev⁸, Yuan Lai⁹, Barbara D Lam⁴, Megan Lipcsey⁴, Alfonso Martinez¹⁰, Oren J Mechanic^{1

11}, Jack Mlabasati⁴, Liam G McCoy⁶, Freddy T Nguyen¹², Matthew Samuel¹³, Eric Yang¹⁰, Leo Anthony Celi^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² OB/GYN, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ metaLAB, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ New York University-Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
⁸ HealthDSA: Health Data Science and Analytics Community, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁰ Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹¹ Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹² Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹³ Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁴ Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Eva M Luo et al. BMJ Innov. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;7(1):231-234.

doi: 10.1136/bmjinnov-2020-000492. Epub 2020 Aug 31.

¹ Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² OB/GYN, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ metaLAB, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ New York University-Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
⁸ HealthDSA: Health Data Science and Analytics Community, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁰ Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹¹ Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹² Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹³ Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁴ Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests None declared.

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