One of great things about working on the People Powered Health programme is that I get to research and learn about inspiring new ways of delivering healthcare from around the world.
So without having a bigger purpose, I thought i’’d share some of my favourite finds with you.
Some of this comes in big reports, like this great piece from the Health Foundation about the impact and evidence around self management, or this report from Stanford Social Innovation Review about the potential for social investment to generate health innovation.
Others are snapshots of great stories about innovations, that enables healthcare to be delivered in peoples homes and rural areas where the professional settings are far away. Like the The Embrace Infant Warmer, an innovative and cost-effective technology that uses a wax to provide thermal support to preterm born babies suffering from hypothermia, which is a key condition for survival, without the need of electricity. Or the neonatatal incubator made of car parts originally designed for use in developing countries for 1/300 of the price of a traditional incubator, with the added benefit of being fixable should it break (did you know that according to a study conducted by Duke University, up to 98% of donated medical equipment in developing countries is broken within five years!!)
However, my favourite health innovation this month is Patients Like Me, and their aspiration to change health care for people living with life changing conditions. Their approach to this is creating the patientslikeme.com platform where patients can share information about how it is to live with their condition, not based on a purely medical framework, but on peoples lived experiences.
It's an amazing story, and I really recommend that you watch the inspiring ted talk by Jamie Heywood, of its founders, below.
We are always interested in learning more about what happens out there in health innovation land. So please share you favourite health innovations in the comment field below, or if you are interested in how we are working on innovation in health follow our work here.
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Fascinating
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