The State of Making in Healthcare
World Maker Faire New York 2018
MAKER
Anna Young
MakerHealth CEO Anna Young works from a fundamental belief that, with the right tools, everyday people can use their ingenuity to create devices that heal. Applying years of global experience with the Maker Movement, Anna brings prototyping tools and makerspaces into hospitals enhance the natural problem solving abilities of clinicians and patients. Anna is the Co-Founder of MakerNurse, an RWJF sp
Schedule:
Sunday, September 23
Zone 1 - Center Stage - NYSCI Auditorium4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Health making is revolutionizing the way care is delivered in hospitals, clinics, and home care divisions across the globe. Patient-made machines are changing the provider-patient dynamic. The solutions by clinical staff at the point of care are making care better and more affordable.
What inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:
Every makers at the hospital bedside have given us historical and modern day medical technologies. Using a maker mindset and transparent design, everyone from Nicaraguan nurses to Texan neurosurgeons to high schoolers in New England can participate in reinventing the way we treat and detect disease.
We wanted to democratize the same type of biological automation that gave us the human genome. Using inspiration from natural biological systems we found that by using life sciences as a vehicle for fabrication we can make complex robots much more affordable for everyone.
