Greg Solis
Human Centered Design Lead
04.04.24 (17:30H CET) | LINKEDIN LIVE
Beyond New Technologies: Modernizing Equitable Access to Healthcare.
04.04.24 (17:30H CET) | LINKEDIN LIVE
From fax machines and paper pads to AI-assisted interventions, technological innovation has been changing the landscape of health services across the board. But how, and where has health tech made a difference in providing the right health services to those who need them most?
The past decade of healthcare innovation has produced amazing innovations in fields ranging from cancer care to women’s health. Unfortunately, innovations originating in the private sector often benefit a minority of people, typically folks who are in socioeconomic positions of privilege, who are also highly motivated to pursue better health, and have robust support networks. On the other hand, publicly funded health innovation often struggles to move from academia to application in civic health systems.
With recent market changes, a lot of privately funded products and services have moved from a focus on innovation and reach, to prioritizing profit. In parallel, public health is finally benefiting from new technologies at scale, and applying automation in an effort to expand care and improve standards. How are these changes impacting population health?
Greg is a hands-on research, strategy, and design leader specializing in problems of access to health. Greg has over a decade of experience designing across industries and modes of interaction. For the past seven years he has been working on developing new human-centered products and services for legacy healthcare corporations like Roche, Bayer and NGK as well as startups, new entrants, and most recently public health systems. His approach combines understanding individual emotional frictions and motivations for those experiencing health conditions, examining potential impacts for interventions at the population level, and designing iterative viable products that originate wherever the system is today, evolving towards intentional and preferable futures of health.
Currently, Greg works as a Human Centered Design Lead at Bellese Technologies, an independent civic innovation agency, where he leads 3 research and service design streams for CMS, the US government agency that provides health coverage to over 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Healthcare.gov, the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Greg has recently relocated from San Francisco, California to Woodstock. Vermont, where on his free time he enjoys hiking, tinkering with building and riding bikes, and is just getting into growing adaptogenic mushrooms
