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Health technology and medical innovation: why open-source is vital

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Health technology and medical innovation: why open-source is vital

Balli, Fabio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-5810 (2021) Health technology and medical innovation: why open-source is vital. In: Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative SDG Summer School, 5-7 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Resources that fulfill fundamental needs must have a participatory governance, regardless of who owns them (Rodotà Commission and Italian Supreme Court building on Nobel Prize Dr Elinor Ostrom). Examples: open-source hand rub saves 8 million lives yearly; open-source MRI scanners could spare 60-140 million € yearly in Germany alone; open-source prostheses mobilize 30000 volunteers with a 0 € business model; Open Source Drug Discovery gathers 110 projects on neglected diseases; open-source games for health showcase a ludic model to mutually take care. It is vital because: 1) being healthy requires commoning: 2) it can double access to care; 3) it helps fight corruption; 4) costs can be cut by 10 or 100. Additional resources: reminder of definitions (free/libre and open-source vs gratis); three steps to start (Goals, design principles, validation); self-assessment (health, people, process, licences, resource allocation, physical availability, impact); links to guide for makers, poster with further examples, report on open source in Switzerland.

Divisions:Concordia University > Research Units > Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games
Concordia University > Research Units > Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Concordia University > School of Graduate Studies > Individualized Program
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Refereed:No
Authors:Balli, Fabio
Date:5 July 2021
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.5281/zenodo.5053608
Keywords:health commons, health democracy, access to care, systemic corruption, cost of innovation, medical industry transformation, critical public health, global health delivery, community health, universal health coverage, co-creation, participatory research, free/libre and open-source software, open-source hardware, agile development, peer production
ID Code:988523
Deposited By: Fabio Balli
Deposited On:13 Jul 2021 19:01
Last Modified:13 Jul 2021 19:01
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