The healthcare industry is making rapid progress with revolutionary developments in technology and medical equipment. But for the past several thousand years the classification of the end user has pretty much remained the same, a simple energy conversion system with four limbs, usually, a protected central processing unit and a few rather limited sensors. What happens at the interface between the user and the technology? How do we design our medical products and services to be usable by everyone? Initial solutions were often cumbersome as the end result, in the extreme the saving of a life, could afford a measure of discomfort on the part of the patient. And a complex interaction for the physician. Is the industry now able to move on? Can we deliver advanced technology solutions for health that also deliver a positive experience for the patient and clinician?
At this joint SIG event with the Wireless Healthcare and User Experience groups we will explore where this is happening and what else can be done to deliver a more pleasurable healthcare experience.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Phil Gray, Managing Director, Quadro Design (part of Sagentia Group Plc)
- Kurt Ward, Design Manager, Philips Design
- Ian Hosking, Senior Research Associate, Cambridge University Department of Engineering
- Andy Pidgeon, Group Leader, Cambridge Consultants
- Leon Bovett, Principle Consultant, Accenture
- Joshua Wies, Director, Agewell Biometrics
We will also be having a 'Bring & Share' session to discuss good and bad examples of user experience within healthcare.
Confirmed presenters for Bring & Share include Leo Poll of Akendi, Geoff McCormick of Alloy, Paul McGhee of EAHSN, and Dominic Stenning & Jane Berezynskyj of Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
This event is FREE to members of Cambridge Wireless and people working in the NHS or CUHP/EASHN. Tickets for non-members are £155 plus VAT. To join Cambridge Wireless as a member and attend future events for free, please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up
Limited FREE places for non-members: We are keen to engage with, and foster the next generation of technologists so we have limited FREE delegate places at our events for non-members who are under 30. If you would like to register for one of these places, please register as a non-member and under job title please list your date of birth. We will then confirm if you have received a place within one week of the event.
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