Living labs intime of crisis.

Artur Serrai2cat Foundation

Collabs WorkshopLugano, June 22th, 2010

Living labs started at the end of

a cycle of economic prosperity(Nov. 2006)

Things have changeddramatically(June 2010)

“The worse crisis since World War II”

The possibility of a Big Change

in innovation systems

What happened in WWII?

The begining of of the Military R&D system

Americans have developed military supremacy from

technology (particularly with ICT)

Americans are the global military

superpower

“American are from Mars, European are from Venus”

“Power and Weakness:Why the United States and Europe

see the world differently”

By Robert Kagan

Foreign Affairs, June & July 2002

What is the chances of Europe in the current crisis?

Applying the high tech to the civil systems

Is the Living Lab the answer tothe new innovation system?

A big challenge:

Re-designing theEuropean Welfare State:

Innovating in healthcare systems with ICT

Rutine innovation and breakthrough innovation

Europeans have developed healthcare systems with better

performance

(WHO The world health report 2000 -

Health systems: improving performance)

Can European develop better healthcare systems

with ICT?

Americans are...still young

Europeans are getting older...

Step 1. IT as an innovative

“medical technology”

The i2cat first IT health innovative project

• From an health problem and IT Health Service

• To an IT health innovative project

• To a new IT Health Service...and again

Two cultures in conflict/cooperation

The IT people and The medical community

A second clash

The IT service people

and

the IT R&D people

2005

Current i2cat eHealth projects

E-Health

e-Dependence

Hospital

Oriented

• Eye-Health Tele-Ophthalmology

• Linkcare Biomedical parameter home monitoring

• Catalan TeleStroke Network TeleStroke emergency service

• Help4Mood: A distributed system to support depressed people at home

• Attentianet Elderly home support platform

• connectAlzheimer Pacient social network

• LivingLab4Carers User driven tools development

• SegureHealth RFID tracking & monitoring

• Selene Multidisciplinary knowledge center (product innovation trough livinglab procedures)

• Visual-Health Medical media platform

Created in 2006

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TIC Salut: the Public IT Health unit

• First victory: TIC Salut helps to the IT policy in the Catalan Health Department.

− Putting order in big IT health projects Patient Medical Records Electronic medicine recipes. Digital image network Personal health archive

• The eHealth is already established

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Barcelona 13-02- 09

From eHealth to iHealth

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Step 2.People as

innovative actor

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The new actor in Health care systems:

The people

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The wave of Open innovation• User-driven innovation.• Web 2.0, Living Labs, • European Network of Living Labs. • People are using Internet health services

faster than healthcare systems.

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Barcelona 13-02- 09

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Barcelona 13-02- 09

A best practice.

Universitat del pacient

Patient's University

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Barcelona 13-02- 09

A second best practice:Seniorlab, a LL project

• A community of seniors interested in independent living and innovation

– Seniors and Elders, a new age group.– Innovation as a culture for promoting

independent way of living.• Socialization• Interest in novelty. Neotenia• Learning again• Technology innovation: Connecta

Alzheimer, a user-driven technology tool.

– The knowledge/wisdom society

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Barcelona 13-02- 09

Some conclusions• 1. IT Health can be strategic for reforming

the European Welfare systems.• 2. The ICT Medical community can be a

driver of the innovation in the healthcare systems.

• 3. Patients, even seniors, can be an ally in this innovative effort.

• 4. The economic crisis offers the possibility and the need to take innovative solutions.

• 5. Lls is the answer.

ThanksArtur Serra

artur.serra@i2cat.net