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SAN FRANCISCO, United States – Aug 24, 2026 – JinIX has announced registration for its Rare Disease Clinical Datathon, a patient-centered clinical analysis challenge designed to bring rare disease patients, physicians, researchers and medical specialists together around real-world patient cases.

Unlike a traditional coding competition, the JinIX Clinical Datathon focuses on clinical analysis. During the event, verified medical experts use JinIX’s AI Health Navigator to review consented patient health information, explore clinical questions, identify patterns and develop potential treatment directions that may be relevant to individual rare disease cases.

Patients then receive the resulting findings and can evaluate which insights they consider most helpful and actionable.

“One patient alone may never reach the research community. Together, we can. JinIX Datathon is our way of connecting patients with the medical experts and researchers who can help move rare disease research forward.” — Jeffrey Zhang, CEO of JinIX

Rare disease patients often manage medical information across multiple providers, records, laboratory results and years of health history. JinIX is designed to bring that information into one place and create a more structured rare disease medical journey timeline, helping patients better understand their history while allowing authorized experts to review a more organized view of their case.

The Clinical Datathon applies that model to a structured event in which patients remain directly involved in the process rather than simply contributing data.

How the Clinical Datathon Works for Patients

Patient participation is free and takes place online.

Participants first register with JinIX and connect relevant medical records, laboratory results and health history. A verified physician, researcher or medical specialist can then review the patient’s case through JinIX and use the AI Health Navigator to explore clinical questions and identify potential treatment directions.

Once the analysis is completed, patients receive the expert findings in a structured format. They can review the patterns identified, possible directions worth exploring and other observations surfaced during the analysis.

Patients also participate in the evaluation process by voting on the findings they believe are most useful and relevant to their condition. Their feedback forms an important part of the Clinical Datathon’s judging process.

As a thank-you for participating and exploring JinIX with their health records, patient participants can also receive a one-time $25 bonus reward after completing the participation process.

JinIX emphasizes that patients remain in control of their information throughout the event. Patients decide what information to share, who can access it and for how long, and they can withdraw their participation. Access to patient data by medical experts requires explicit patient consent.

$1,000 Prize Pool for Medical Experts

The Clinical Datathon also invites verified physicians, researchers, clinicians and medical specialists to participate as individual medical experts.

A total $1,000 prize pool will be awarded across four winners:

• 1st Place — $500: Best Clinical Application, recognizing the deepest insight and most actionable findings
• 2nd Place — $300: Runner Up, recognizing strong analysis with meaningful patient benefit
• 3rd Place — $100: Third Place, recognizing solid clinical reasoning and clear patient relevance
• 4th Place — $100: Honorable Mention, recognizing a creative approach or unique patient perspective

Medical experts first register with JinIX and complete professional verification. Participants then receive access to the JinIX AI Health Navigator for the datathon period and use the platform to analyze authorized patient records or JinIX-provided sample datasets.

Experts interact with the AI Health Navigator to ask clinical questions, surface patterns and develop potential treatment directions. The workflow reflects JinIX’s broader focus on clinical decision support for rare diseases, using structured patient histories and AI-assisted analysis to help specialists work through complex cases.

JinIX then generates a structured analysis report from the session, eliminating the need for a separate submission workflow.

Patients Help Determine What Makes an Insight Valuable

A distinguishing feature of the JinIX Clinical Datathon is the role patients play in judging the results.

Submissions are evaluated by JinIX leadership together with a Patient Judge Board made up of rare disease patients participating in the datathon.

Evaluation is based on four criteria:

• Patient acceptance and actionability — 30%: Whether the findings are useful to patients and provide a concrete next step
• Clinical insight depth — 25%: Whether the analysis connects patient data with meaningful treatment directions or disease insights
• Depth of JinIX engagement — 25%: How effectively the expert uses JinIX and provides useful feedback on the AI-assisted analysis process
• Clarity of communication — 20%: Whether the findings are explained in a way patients can understand and act on

By including patients directly in the evaluation process, the Clinical Datathon is designed to reward not only technical or clinical sophistication, but also findings that patients themselves consider understandable, relevant and useful.

Bringing More Expert Attention to Rare Disease Cases

For many people living with rare diseases, finding specialists with experience in a specific condition can be difficult. Relevant expertise may be distributed across institutions, specialties and research communities.

The JinIX Clinical Datathon is designed to create a structured way for patients to make their cases available to verified experts with their consent, while giving clinicians and researchers an opportunity to work through complex rare disease cases using AI-assisted clinical analysis.

Rather than treating patients simply as sources of data, the program gives them visibility into the resulting analysis and a role in deciding which contributions provide the greatest value.

That approach is consistent with JinIX’s broader work around rare disease patient advocacy and research, where patient-controlled health information can become more structured and useful for care and research while keeping patients involved in how their data is used.

The event also gives medical experts an opportunity to explore how AI-assisted tools can support structured review of complex patient histories while keeping the patient perspective central to the process.

Registration

The JinIX Clinical Datathon will take place online in 2026 and is free to join.

Patients: Register at jinix.com/datathon Patient consent: app.jinix.com/patientsconsent

Medical experts: Register at jinix.com/datathon Professional registration: app.jinix.com/physicianregister

Questions can be directed to [email protected].

About JinIX

JinIX is a rare disease patient care platform that helps bring scattered medical records into one place and enables AI-assisted exploration of patient health histories through its AI Health Navigator. The platform is designed to help patients better understand their health information while enabling authorized medical experts to analyze consented patient data and explore potential clinical insights.

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Company Name: JinIX
Contact Person: Jeffrey Zhang
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City: San Francisco
Country: United States
Website: https://www.jinix.com/