Healthcare Innovating Via NYC DIY/DIT "Health Maker Lab"

Greetings, HCx3DP Synergists!

This is our latest update for our "HCx3DP Meetup NY" scheduled for Thursday, 18 June.

Our complete Thursday evening Meetup title and subtitle are now:

"Health Maker Lab": Healthcare Innovating Via NYC DIY/DIT Digi-Fab Making---

Fostering Hyper-Local Synergy & Betterment of Healthcare Institutions, Maker Nurses, Citizen-Scientists & Their Neighborhoods

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Our Roundtable/Workshop Expert Participants (as of today, 16 June 2015) include many who worked together with us at our 17 April Meetup at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, BK, plus some important new players. Here's Thursday's Event Team:

David Solomonoff, President, New York Chapter, Internet Society (Confirmed);

Kelly Reilly, Director of Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice, Maimonides Medical Center; Impresario, World's First Mini Maker Faire at a Hospital (Confirmed);

Jon Luongo, MS, CCLS, Child Life Specialist, Maimonides Infants & Children's Hospital (Confirmed);

Matt Lipshultz, Meetup Co-Organizer, Hack Manhattan (Confirmed);

Victor Ty, Pediatric Radiology RN; Maker & LEGO Medical Designer: 3D printing LEGO Digital Designs; Maimonides Medical Center(Confirmed);

Oliver Medvedik, PhD., Co-Founder; Director, Scientific Programs, Genspace (Confirmed);

Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Project Manager, Health Tech, Center for Economic Transformation, New York City Economic Development Corporation (Invited);

Jonathan Askin, Technology Law Professor, Founder/Director, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy (BLIP) Clinic, Brooklyn Law School. Innovation Catalyst for the Brooklyn Law Center (CUBE) for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (Confirmed).

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As I think you now know, our "HCx3DP Meetup NY (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/)" is out to change how Healthcare works---using grassroots-driven "neo-tech" of every applicable kind.

So, we're collaborating with a number of community-based, action-making, commerce & common-good players at the intersection of Healthcare and Digital Fabrication. Our Roundtable participants Thursday evening are---like many of you---players with interests in DIY/DIT Healthcare, Med Sci, BioTech, BioMedical Engineering, 3D Printing and innovative uses of our new HC/3DP hybrid. This includes ThoughtWorks---our venue-host sponsor.

We've now conceptualized and sketched-out a program we're calling "Health Maker Lab" (HML).

Thursday's Meetup event (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/221203424/)---with participation from a topic-focused audience like you --- will help us to continue planning the best route to advance HML at speed.

Our near-term goals include establishing a non-profit and recruiting appropriate partners & sponsors to join in our quest. This challenge includes our hyper-local HML community-building for middle-class job generation in NYC. And, that, too, is driven by empowering variants of HCx3DP.

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More Background...

Our April Meetup---at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, Brooklyn---was entitled "Effective Public Policy in The Age of (HCx3DP) Disruption---Ensuring Local HCx3DP Commerce & Common-Good While Fostering A World-Dominating, Industrial-Segment, Cluster HQ in NYC..."

Due to the interests, dynamics and aligned directions of our very-expert---and enthusiastic!---Roundtable participants on 17 April, we adjusted our central focus ad hoc. On the fly---we concentrated on how we might actually DIY/DIT MAKE "Effective Public Policy…" in local healthcare together. The term "MAKE" was---and is---highly appropriate. A group of our HCx3DP Synergists are now intent on creating a new and innovative subset---community bio, med and HC-based---of the burgeoning Maker Movement.

The short-form and working title of our HCx3DP-Synergist member-segment---and prospective, explanatory venue-tag---is "Health Maker Lab" (HML).

To move our nascent HML-focused effort ahead, our Thursday evening, 18 June, Meetup will present a hybrid Roundtable/Workshop format. In this mode, we'll hope to excite, elicit and capture the ideas, concepts and prospective plans we will create together---interactively---between and among our Experts and (expert!) audience.

C'mon on out Thursday evening: help us make something important happen...

Best!

LAND
Organizer