People-powered HealthScience:Disrupt – Future Health13th Sep 2016

Maxine MackintoshChair, HealthTech Women UK

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The power of the crowd…

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Diversity Makes Innovation better

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DPeople-powered Health

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1. Information Asymmetry: An imbalance in power of a transaction where one party has more/better information than the other

2. Principal-Agent Problem (& paternalism): Where one person/entity makes decisions on behalf of another

3. Social Movement Theory: Social movements are a type of group action. They are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues which carries out, resists or undoes social change.

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“What have social sciences ever done for us?”

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David Aberle (1966): 4 types of social movement:

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The irony herein lies… People: human beings in general or considered collectively/ the members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group

We will ALL be users of healthcare in our lives – we should therefore be the designers too

77%!?!?!?!?!?!http://www.nhsemployers.org/~/media/Employers/Publications/Gender%20in%20the%20NHS.PDF

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• 85% of nursing directors are women

• Of medical staff:

- 52% GPs are female

• Bands 5-9 ~75% female

• 7% of female staff are doctors & dentists (28% for men)

• 32% finance directors are women

• 24% of medical directors are women

• Of medical staff:34% consultants are female

• Lowest band (1-4): 81% women

• 42% CEOs are women

• 68% of HR directors are women

• 54% doctors in training are female

Remember the 77%...

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E.g. Artificial Intelligence?

You’re training an algorithm to see

patterns. If you do not have the breadth in

your dataset then you will produce biased

results

HealthTech Women UK just scratches the surface

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There are still barriers…

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“We can't tell people to change their culture, what we have to do is grow the numbers and show the way we can change the culture from within rather than dictating”

Clare Marx (1st female president of the Royal College of Surgeons)

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