Juhan Sonin

Lecturer, Design & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Juhan Sonin is an emeritus of some of the finest software organizations in the world: Apple, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been a creative director for two decades with his work being featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, BBC International, NewScientist, WIRED, and National Public Radio (NPR). Juhan currently lectures on design and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Juhan designs clinical and consumer health software for every application: from desktop to skintop to celltop. He's lead the HIMSS mobile health workgroup, consulted for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the design of Medicare services and national health IDs, co-designed Project Laika (the data interoperability service used in EHR certification), and co-authored a National Institutes of Health (NIH) and California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF)-funded guide book on EHR design.

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Patient Experience Design and Innovation

Sunday, April 12th, 2015

12:20 Closing Keynote: From Bathroom To Healthroom: How Magical Technology Will Revolutionize Human Health

It's time to design products to capture life and physiologic signs invisibly... usually through non-invasive sensors that don't require a single drop of blood, but just whiffs and sniffs. And when it is visible, it must be designed to feel wonderful.

Remember doctor's visits when you were growing up? The wooden tongue depressor. The well-worn stethoscope. That weird thing they jammed in your ears. And now, my young children are getting about that same treatment. But that is going to change.

As design harnesses digital, materials and networking technologies, a very new health experience is just over the horizon. Proactive, lifestyle design. Tracking real-time health data. Non-invasive tools. Custom "just for you" treatments based on your actual genome. These are all real technologies, being used by ordinary people. Together they are leading us to "stage zero" detection and treatment which has the potential to double or better the lifespan of every first-world citizen. Not science fiction, the children of the 2020's will only know this reality. Tongue depressors will be limited to school craft projects and popsicles. And it is all the product of technology and design.

From Bathroom to Healthroom introduces participants to the macro factors shaping these realities, along with an in-depth exploration of the various impacts of and opportunities for design.