This spring’s Duke Critical Care Datathon brought together more than 150 clinicians, data scientists, engineers, and students from across Duke University, Research Triangle Park and beyond for a three-day exploration of critical-care data science. Held April 25–27 at the Duke Health Center for Interprofessional Education and Care, the event combined expert-led sessions, hands-on team challenges and prototype presentations to accelerate innovations in patient monitoring, predictive modeling, and clinical decision support. This event was made possible by the generous support of Mark III Systems/NVIDIA and CloudForce. Their commitment to advancing healthcare AI provided essential computing resources, seed data science mentorship and prize funding that empowered participants to push the boundaries of critical-care analytics. We also thank our mentors, judges, and organizers—Jeremy Tan, Gloria Hyunjung Kwak, Ahram Han, Yueran Jia, Nikki Boatenhamer Freeman, Hyeon-Chul Lee and Hyung-Chul Lee—whose expertise and dedication guided each team. Datasets were graciously provided by Seoul National University Hospital, CHoRUS, MIT Critical Data and Epic Cosmos.
