A Maker Revolution in Healthcare
World Maker Faire 2017
September 23rd-24th
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 frontline staff are making care better and more affordable.
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 sponsored program to support inventive, frontline nurses. Anna’s roots come from MIT as researcher in the Little Devices Lab and lecturer in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. In 2015, Anna was recognized by LinkedIn as a top Health Innovator under 35 and in 2016 received Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
http://www.makerhealth.co
Jose Gomez-Marquez
Jose Gomez-Marquez leads the Little Devices Lab @ MIT. The group focuses on empowerment technologies for health including DIY medical technologies kits, crowdsourced diagnostics, paper microfluidics, and health technology in extreme environments.
