AERA digital healthcare

During my Bachelor project at the University of the Arts in Berlin, I was looking into current developments in the digitalisation of the healthcare system. On a theoretical discourse, I traced back the importance of healthcare for governments to justify their claim to power in modern democratic systems. Developments in electronic and connected healthcare provide further methods of surveying health outcomes and new means to influence it, thereby giving this historic relation between healthcare and politic a new immediacy.

For the applied part of the bachelor project, I took part in a research project at the Fraunhofer IAO Institute in Berlin. The project examined the development of start-ups in healthcare-related environments. In that phase of the project, Gianni Passerini and I developed a concept for the use of a mobile device to analyse blood values. As the needed technology is not yet available, though its development is foreseeable, we consented to work on the user interaction for future hardware. The result is an interactive prototype which helps to discuss and envision use cases and possible implications of the way we perceive healthcare in the future.

Context

The project was part of my bachelor thesis in the program “visual communication” at the University of the Arts in Berlin, 2016.

Team members

Gianni Passerini
Kilian Kottmeier