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OpenHealth Datathon: Designing Future Patient-led Conversations

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Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat that directly or indirectly affects each and every one of us. On the 21st of June at Novartis Pavillon come and share your expertise together with people who experienced antimicrobial resistance, healthcare professionals, designers and technologists to envision solutions based on conversational agents, chatbots and data to address the challenge of resistance development.

Registration is open from this link [ register here! ]

For any questions, please contact makeaware.ide@supsi.ch

The event

OpenHealth Datathon is a half-day event open to all. Participants gather to work together in teams, through tools and techniques based on conversational agents, chatbots and data, to imagine and prototype human centered interfaces and help citizens and doctors face consequences of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotics misuse.

Who is welcome to join

  • Are you affected by resistance development or do you know someone who is?

  • Or are you just curious about new approaches in digital healthcare innovation based on human-centered design?

  • Are you a healthcare professional who wants to learn more about digital data and patient-led conversations?

Program

13:00 - 14:00 Visit to the exhibition Wonders of Medicine (optional, seats are limited and upon registration) 14:00 - 15:00 Introductions and keynote talk on the topic of crowd data and patient-led approaches in healthcare. 15:00 - 19:00 Hands-on design-led activity in which multidisciplinary teams collaborate to design and prototype conversations in the format of conversational agents and chatbots. 19:00 - 20:00 Final wrap-up and offered standing apero

The event is organised by the MAKEAWARE! initiative, part of the Spearhead project and supported by Innosuisse.

Location

Morphogenic Movements, Novartis Pavillon, 2022. Photo credit: iart

Essential info

Friday 21st June 2024 H 14 - 21.00 Novartis Pavillon St. Johanns-Hafen-Weg 5 4056 Basel

Details

The event welcomes people based or working in Switzerland. Activities will be held in English. No specific skills or previous knowledge are required to participate.