No matter which side of the health care debate you are on, you’ll probably agree that the system and its components could use an upgrade.  Is it possible to take certain aspects of health care and ‘treat’ them more of an open source platform approach, much like software is today? Can the system components be ‘hacked’ in the same way that makers customize consumer electronics to do their bidding?  Medhack is new brand of event  attempting to do just that. It is billed as a 22 hour hackathon for designers, doctors, engineers or just those with good ideas to find innovative solutions to the current health care situation and solve the big problems faced by doctors. This event and others that follow may mark the beginning of a time when those with STEM skills and ideas bring to bear their individual powers and make ‘disruptive’ changes that drive dramatic improvements to health care. Is is possible that the same impetus that drives people to create thousands of apps and results in the creation of devices like desktop 3-D printers will apply to the last bastion of extreme regulation that affects all of our lives? We’ll soon see. The reasons for STEM proficiency keep growing.