Videha Sharma, PhD, MRCS, BMBS

Healthcare systems around the world are under increasing pressure: aging population, disease complexity, workforce shortages – people are living longer, but often with greater suffering and poorer quality of life. The amount of healthcare delivery is going up, but are we ‘living more’?

We have made, and continue to make, great discoveries in healthcare, but the failures of health services today aren’t due to a lack of great scientific progress, but due to a lack of application of those discoveries. The healthcare industry remains poorly equipped to move from exploration to application.

Videha Sharma will be discussing two key messages with us:

– We need to think and work differently and embrace the role of experts outside of science and healthcare to realize the potential of innovation

– We need to continue to move towards preventative models of care

Implementing these will allow us to reduce the amount of healthcare consumption per individual, and across society, resulting in not just longer, but also healthier lives – shifting from ‘sick care’ to true ‘health care’.

In order to imagine a world where healthcare is seamless and focused on health rather than sickness, we need the field of UX and healthcare to come together even more!