Digital Healt Connect

My brief was to provide an overview of the 11 presentations that took place over the course of a full day. I worked digitally - in keeping with the theme of the conference - wearing headphones for the translations. The visual result had to be in French. I used a very dynamic, almost provocative colour code. I chose to structure the fresco according to the themes and by sketching the portrait of each speaker. At the end of the day, I took the microphone to present an oral conclusion based on the drawing, which was projected onto a giant screen. This 5-minute summary at the end of a day rich and diverse in content was much appreciated. It was also an opportunity to give my point of view as a patient and to challenge the audience: "Why haven't you invited patients to give their opinion on the future of the healthcare system, when they too are the first to be affected?"

This conference was one of the most memorable for me, not only because of the quality of the organisation and the satisfaction of a very attractive visual presentation, but also because I found it fascinating to explore the mutual impact of the healthcare system and the environment, the challenge of imagining the future and identifying the levers and actions for change: a medicine that is 3/4 preventive, increased screening, optimised digitalisation, eco-designed equipment for circularity, a decentralised system that relies on creativity and smart/low technologies, the use of artificial intelligence to operate less and better.

I was blow-minded by the speech of Solomzi Makholiso, a researcher at EPFL, who put forward a vision that I found totally astonishing: instead of designing complex and expensive equipment in rich countries and sending it back to the countries where it is obsolete, even though it will be unusable there, innovations could be developed directly for everyone, thereby reducing the costs of the healthcare system for rich and poor alike and contributing to medical justice around the world.