HHS IDEA Lab Town Hall: Invent Health

Washington, D.C. – Have you heard about the growing movement of individual inventors and problem solvers creating tools, devices, and other physical solutions to home and clinical care challenges? (Here are some examples).

Learn, explore, and contribute your perspective around a new and rapidly moving space in health and healthcare.

HHS IDEA Lab Town Hall: Invent Health will be a series of presentations and conversation offering important background, setting it in a healthcare context, and then specific examples of how this movement is affecting the Department. The event takes place Jan. 28, 2016, from 10:00am to 11:30am, EST., in room 800 at The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Washington, D.C. and available online. The Invent Health initiative (akin to the Maker Movement if you are familiar with it) seeks to empower inventors both inside and outside government to create tools for better living and better clinical care.

Speakers
Presenters are inventors, federal employees, and sage wizards hosted by HHS CTO Susannah Fox that includes: 

• Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Mark Hatch, Founder & CEO, Tech Shop & Author of The Maker Movement Manifesto
• Jose Gomez-Marquez, Director, Little Devices Lab, MIT
• Anna Young, Co-founder, MakerNurse
• Darrell Hurt, PH.D., Project Lead, NIH 3D Print Exchange Team

Agenda

• Introduction
• Introduction to Broader Inventor/Maker Landscape
• Impact on Health and Clinical Care Environment
• Impact on Department
• How HHS Inventors Are Interacting in this Space
• Q & A and Open Discussion

Want to Attend?
Anyone can tune-in via live stream or attend the event (seating capacity is limited so register early). Registration access issues, please send us an email with your name, agency/org and if you will be attending in-person or virtually.

Source: HHS