The Tech hands you the keys to innovation and the power to change the future of medicine in Innovations in Health Care, presented by El Camino Hospital. This is the first exhibit at The Tech that explores advances in health care technology while explicitly detailing the innovation process.
Technology saving lives, created by people who “found their why,” are the focal point of the experience. Many innovations came from unlikely sources of inspiration or are solutions created by inventors outside of relevant fields.
Visitors to Innovations in Health Care will:
- Explore how a dog’s sense of smell might help detect cancer (and test their own sniffing powers.)
- Consider ways to help doctors remotely diagnose medical problems without expensive equipment.
- Brainstorm new ways to filter water in developing nations.
- Experiment with different materials to keep infants warm.
- Learn how to design and build within constraints, an important key to innovation.
- Develop pre-surgery checklists that make procedures safer.
- Detect differences between standard vaccines and new nanopatch technology.
- Contemplate how 3D printing may change health care by creating skin and organs.
