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UX and Innovation in Healthcare

21
Jan
2016

18:30 to 21:00

C309, Tait Building (Level 3), City University London

Our first event of 2016 is hosted by City University. We have four wonderful speakers from a variety of backgrounds who will explore, discuss and provoke thought on UX and innovation in healthcare. Come and hear from designers, academics and technologists who are innovating with digital and physical technologies to create amazing new services and products. From dementia care to clinical trials, from smart pills to compact catheters.

If you want to take a look at the future of healthcare, join us and be inspired!

We thank our sponsors Futureheads and GfK for supporting this event.

Solving the Healthcare Problem: Innovation, Technology, and UX

Speaker

Elisa del Galdo is Head of Customer Experience at Blue Latitude Health.

Elisa will be exploring innovation in healthcare through a user experience lens to look at solutions that actually help to solve problems faced by healthcare professionals and patients. She will specifically focus on smart pills, a GSK asthma study, and a COPD patient service.

Designing Products for Intimate Healthcare Needs

Speaker

Jack Godfey Wood is Creative Director at Native and Liberty Fearns is Lead Designer at Native.

Jack and Liberty will give a joint talk on their recent work with Coloplast (a Danish healthcare company specialising in products for intimate healthcare needs). They will use case studies to illustrate their approach to design and innovation and what unifying a range of products really means. They will also explore how they create products such as compact catheters and stoma bags with dignity and discretion at their heart.

UX Design in the Context of Clinical Trials

Speaker

James King is the co-founder of SP+EE, a team of designers, researchers and developers that collaborate with clinicians to design digital tools for healthcare and medical research.

James will show some recent projects and talk about the role of UX in the field of medical research and discuss including and some of the challenges of applying good UX practice when working in a clinical environment.

Mobile Technologies for Residential Dementia Care

Speaker

Neil Maiden is Professor of Digital Creativity at Cass Business School and co-founder of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London.

Neil will talk about recent explorations and evaluations of simple digital apps used on mobile technologies to improve the care of older people with dementia in residential care.

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User Experience Professionals' Association is a not-for-profit dedicated to promoting and supporting UX and its practitioners.

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