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Healthcare and big data in the global village

Leading the Health & Wellness team at the Future Ways of Living 2016 summer school in Milan, Italy. Facilitating an interdisciplinary design team and developing foresight strategies for an entire healthcare system which capitalised on big-data and emerging technologies. Key strategy developed is of the digitalisation and automation of non-emergency first diagnostic process to increase access to healthcare services, increase efficiency of care, and reduce wait time. The result of this exercise was captured in the publication Expo Site Milano as a Global Village: Health and Wellness — Better Data and System Integration for Healthier Future (pages: 112–143) by the Institute Without Boundaries, and in the featured documentary film Living in a Global Village.

Owner: Institute Without Boundaries.
Sponsor: Future Ways Of Living with Arexpo.
My role: Team lead
Responsibilities: lead a team of design researchers, facilitate design thinking activities, capture and write results for a publication.
Project team Guy Matorin (Lead), Daniel Garnier (Architecture), Gianmarco Luggeri (Product & service design), Begum Okten (Communication and product design), Sara Rizza (Service design), Chiara Scagliotti (Communication and product design).

Capitalising on existing technologies can enable an immediate digitalisation and automation of non-emergency first diagnostics. This will reduce the burden on healthcare systems and enable them to increase efficiency with existing resources."

Future Ways of Living - Expo site Milano as a global village, 2016.

Rendering of a self blood screening device in an open community laboratory.

Guy from an interview for the Living in a Global Village documentary film.

A system design diagram of healthcare on four scales including the flow of exchange between data and funds.

Watch the trailer of the documentary Living in a Global Village on Amazon Prime Video:

See documentary trailer

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