EP 40: Designing Open Source Healthcare | Juhan Sonin

Juhan Sonin specializes in healthcare design and system
engineering. He is the director of GoInvo (goinvo.com). The
studio’s designs helped 700,000 Massachusetts residents
receive food benefits, are used by Wikipedia to explain
complex health concepts, and help manage care plans for 150 million
US residents. His work has been recognized by the New York
Times, Newsweek, BBC International, Wired Magazine, and NPR
and he's published in The Journal of Participatory Medicine and The
Lancet. Juhan has spent time at Apple, the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and MITRE. He currently lectures on design and
engineering at MIT. Juhan’s laser focus on healthcare and open
source design has affected national efforts for the United States
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to the California Healthcare
Foundation (CHCF). His open source healthcare products have also
been leveraged by Walgreens, Crossover Health, and Hallmark
Clinics, to name a few. Next up in 2021 they are working to lead an
open source, national push for patients owning their data. Bon and
Juhan talk about open source healthcare, the need for a
longitudinal health record for patients, and why Juhan shared his
own genome publicly.