Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Paolo Malighetti

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health

Smart[er] Citizens

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Bergamo University

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Smarter City and Health

• General aim of smart evolution should increase….Sustainability

….Wealth

….Well being

..Health as a core component of well being

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Health and technologies

• Scientific Advances and deployment of (IT) technologies are reshaping the way we image/live healthcare Remote care (Wearable sensors) Genomic advances Preventive/predictive technologies

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Health and Technologies• example from “THE CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF MEDICINE”

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

New Technologies and issues

• Enable an abundance of health data to be refined and delivered selectively, only when and where needed.

• Personal health data (privacy issues vs advantages of crowd information)

• Real time warning/forecasting• Role of Neuroscience

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Health City: a paradigmatic shift

• Put ‘People well being’ on the fore Identifying 21st-century health needs What matters most to citizens and communities Identifying barriers to health and well-being A livable city A city where it is easier to get an healthier life

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

A terapeutic city?• “Mobile health devices and services will blur the

line between environmental sensing and health sensing, and mass use of mobile devices will blur the line between individual health and public health while utterly transforming our models of urban populations.”

Anthony Townsend

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Smarter health projects• Address fundamental technical and scientific

issues that would support much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on wellbeing rather than disease

• http://www.imacitychanger.org/imacc/story/238-smart-city-healthy-kids-a-research-project-assessing-the-health-of-children-in/

• The Philips Center for health and well-being

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Topics

• Healthy Lifestyles• Living with Grace / Aging in Place

Technologies• Social Integration and Social/cultural

empowerment

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Healthy Lifestyles

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Healthy Lifestyles

http://www.imacitychanger.org/imacc/story/238-smart-city-healthy-kids-a-research-project-assessing-the-health-of-children-in/

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Living with Grace / Aging in Place Technologies

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Living with Grace / Aging in Place Technologies

2002 2012

Population Over 75

3%

20%

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

International active aging index

Bergamo as Health City for a Smart[er] Health Paolo Malighetti

Smart[er]Citizens

Social Integration and Social/cultural Empowermernt