Presnting some strategic possibilities for European Living labs in time of economic crisis. COLLABS, Final meeting. Lugano, june 2010

1. Living labs in
time of crisis.
Artur Serra
i2cat Foundation
Collabs Workshop
Lugano, June
22th, 2010

2. Living labs started
at the end of
a cycle of economic prosperity
(Nov. 2006)

3. Things have changed
dramatically
(June 2010)

4. “The worse crisis
since World War II”

5. The possibility of a
Big Change
in innovation systems

6. What happened in
WWII?
The begining of of the
Military R&D system

7. Americans have developed
military supremacy from
technology
(particularly with ICT)

8. Americans are
the global military
superpower

9. “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

10. What is the chances of Europe
in the current crisis?

11. Applying the high tech
to the civil systems

12. Is the Living Lab the answer to
the new innovation system?

13. A big challenge:
Re-designing the
European Welfare State:
Innovating in
healthcare systems with ICT

14. Rutine innovation and
breakthrough innovation

16. Europeans have
developed healthcare
systems with better
performance
(WHO
The world health report 2000 -
Health systems: improving performance)

19. Can European develop
better healthcare systems
with ICT?

20. Americans are...still
young

21. Europeans are
getting older...

22. Step 1.
IT as an innovative
“medical technology”

24. 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

25. Two cultures in
conflict/cooperation
The IT people
and
The medical community

26. A second clash
The IT service people
and
the IT R&D people

27. 2005

28. Current i2cat eHealth projects
•
Eye-Health Tele-Ophthalmology
•
Linkcare Biomedical parameter home monitoring
•
Catalan TeleStroke Network TeleStroke emergency service
E-Health •
home
Help4Mood: A distributed system to support depressed people at
•
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)
e-Dependence •
Visual-Health Medical media platform

29. Created in 2006

30. 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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32. From eHealth to iHealth
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33. Step 2.
People as
innovative actor
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34. The new actor in
Health care systems:
The people
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35. 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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39. A best practice.
Universitat del
pacient
Patient's
University
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41. 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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43. 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.
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44. Thanks
Artur Serra
artur.serra@i2cat.net