Appropriate healthcare technology for developing countries: low-cost, frugal technology medical devices.

Name: Appropriate healthcare technology for developing countries: low-cost, frugal technology medical devices.
Start: 2013-09-18T09:00:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

18 September 2013

Overview

In the developed world, it takes years for a manufacturer to demonstrate that a new medical device or drug is safe and effective. This delays new treatments and can increase costs by many times the original investment.

In the Global South, priorities are different: it’s accepted that if lives can be saved by a quick and cheap innovation, even if results are not perfect, the device should be made available.

At this seminar, you can hear cutting-edge opinion from designers, engineers medical practitioners and business researchers, learn about innovative frugal medical technology developments and products and examine case studies focusing on East Africa and India.

This is your chance to explore how engineers can reduce the technology gap between rich and poor healthcare systems, and the principles of frugal tech: how simple solutions addressing most of a healthcare problem are more vital than an unaffordable 100% solution.

Why you should attend
•   Hear leading experts and practical developers showcase the benefits of frugal technology
•   Encourage developers to think innovatively for healthcare solutions in cost-limited environments: how can traditionally high-tech expensive solutions be radically simplified?
•   View state-of-the-art frugal technology including neonatal incubators in Nigeria, hand hygiene and mobile biometric technology
•   Network with multi-disciplinary experts

Day 1

09:00 - Registration

09:30 - Chairman's welcome and introduction

09:40 - Healthcare and frugality: an impossible marriage?

Babulal Sethia, Lead for Global Health, Royal Society of Medicine and Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital

•   Potential benefits to healthcare in ‘developed’ countries through international partnership
•   Using the healthcare workforce more effectively
•   Frugal behaviour and improved quality metrics

10:10 - Jugaad innovation: a frugal, flexible and inclusive way to grow

Prof Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

• New solutions in healthcare in India and other emerging economies
• Implications of this approach to innovation: for the west and emerging markets

10:40 - Appropriate healthcare technology

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Executive Chair and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London

•   Utilising mobile phone technologies (mHealth) to improve co-ordination and integration of end-of-life care in developing countries
•   Integrating social media into modern healthcare
•   Linking GP and hospital data to improve the primary care experience for NHS patients

11:10 - Refreshments

11:40 - Developing SMART products for emerging markets

Anirudha Dambal, Strategy and program manager, Global SMART products (X-ray products), Siemens AG (Healthcare)

•   Designing differently for emerging markets
•   Siemens' methodology of SMART innovations
•   Success stories and lessons learnt from Siemens X-ray products

12:10 - Resourcefulness: the key to appropriate healthcare innovation

Ketan Varia, Director, Kinetik Solutions

•   Why a ‘system’ is needed for innovation, and why it works
•   Thinking in time and space
•   Finding and using resources for effective problem-solving

12:40 - Foundations of sand: local manufacturing of bed-nets in East Africa

Dr Michael Jennings, Chair, Centre of African Studies, and Senior Lecturer in International Development, SOAS, University of London

• Controlling malaria via long-lasting insecticide treated bed-nets (LLINs)
• Wider economic and social impacts of LLIN production and
organisation procurement policies

13:10 - Lunch

14:10 - Frugal technology presentations

Including
•   Simon Berry: ColaLife
•   Dr Hippolite Amadi: neonatal incubators in Nigeria
•   David Williams: the ShakerScope
•   Toby Norman: mobile biometric technology
•   Adam Sutcliffe: Orbel Health hand hygiene
•   Virginia Gardiner: Loowatt

15:15 - Refreshments

15:45 - Further presentations

16:45 - Panel discussion

Babulal Sethia: Lead for Global Health, Royal Society of Medicine, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital

A consultant congenital heart surgeon since 1986, Babulal has initiated programmes of healthcare in South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Babulal initiated and currently leads the Global Health programme at the Royal Society of Medicine, an educational charity. He continues to work for the NHS in London and teaches and publishes widely on his interests in congenital heart disorders. Read more about Babulal.

Professor Jaideep Prabhu: Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Jaideep has held positions at Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and UCLA. His research interests are in marketing, innovation, strategy and international busine

Jaideep’s current research focuses on how multinationals are using emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa as a lab for affordable and sustainable innovation for global application. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation, described by the Economist as ‘the most comprehensive book yet’ on the subject of frugal innovation. Watch an interview with Jaideep here.

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett: Executive Chair and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London

Tom was previously Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, and led several independent healthcare reviews and commissions. He was also a Director of the National Council for Palliative Care.

In September 2012, Sir Thomas was appointed Executive Chair of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. Tom has been author of a number of independent reviews including The Philanthropy Review and a Review of End of Life Care for Adults and Children. In January 2013, he was appointed Chair of ‘Who Will Care? The Hughes-Hallett independent commission into health and social care strategy’ in Essex. Tom was formerly Chairman of English Churches Housing Group and the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, and a Special Trustee of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is a Trustee of The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The King’s Fund. Read a profile of Tom here.

Anirudha Dambal: Strategy and Program Manager, Global SMART products (X-ray products), Siemens AG (Healthcare)

Anirudha’s expertise is in innovation, strategy and new product development. He has driven emerging markets research and product definition activities across X-ray modalities for India, Brazil and Chi

In the past, Anirudha has worked with the Siemens Corporate Research and Technology group to develop "appropriate technologies for the under-served 2 billion", focusing on rural healthcare and decentralised renewable energy solutions for India.

Ketan Varia: Director, Kinetik Solutions

Ketan is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ management and consulting experience, and was a non-executive director for North West London Hospitals Trust.

Ketan is the founder of kinetik solutions. He is focused in leading strategy and improvement teams within an operational context. He is a mentor in the Prince's Trust and has led change assignments for a variety of FT Global 500 companies. He is passionate about using innovation in resolving operational issues.

Dr Michael Jennings: Chair, Centre of African Studies, and Senior Lecturer in International Development, SOAS, University of London

Michael works on governance, aid and development and civil society in East Africa. His research focuses on the role of non-state organsiations in development, health and welfare in sub-Saharan Africa.

Michael is a regular contributor of expert briefing documents on a wide range of political, social and health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and has provided expert analysis on African politics, society, economics and development for a range of clients, including multinational companies, diplomats and journalists. Read more about Michael here.

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