Here are three windows into Utopian mobile medical futures:<\/p>\n
Blood Sharing Commuter Train Lounge<\/h3>\n
Partner:<\/strong> NHS Blood and Transplant coordinates the donation of blood, tissue, organs and stem cells in the UK. >>\u00a0Joanne Leeman (NHS) – Marketing<\/p>\n Pitch: <\/strong>Donate blood in comfort on your commute to work.<\/p>\n Team: <\/strong>Ditte Bendix Lanng, Thor Nielson, Andrea Vistoria Hernadez Bueno<\/p>\n Imagine that you could spend your commute donating blood to\u00a0those in\u00a0urgent need. \u00a0Through the NHS Blood and Transplant register, you would be \u00a0offered a comfortable, convenient and customizable Blood Sharing Lounge<\/em>\u00a0on your Lancaster\/Manchester commute. While sharing blood you can skype, answer e-mails, watch a movie, listen to music, meditate, or simply enjoy the landscape. And, of course, you can regulate the temperature and light to create your ideal conditions. You can do it alone, or with friend, relative or co-worker. Perhaps a blood sharing date would be of interest?<\/p>\n Through insights shared by Joanne Leeman from NHS Blood and Transplant, we\u00a0identified three themes:<\/p>\n Sharing:<\/em><\/strong> Join the blood sharing community, overcome cultural barriers to blood donation, build identity, trust and community.<\/p>\n Agility:<\/em><\/strong> Create a multifunctional and resilient blood sharing system that is adaptable to everyday and crisis situations (i.e. scalable, mobile, responsive).<\/p>\n Donor care:<\/em><\/strong> Tailor to donor comfort\u00a0preferences, embed blood sharing in everyday life (e.g. commute), attract new donors.<\/p>\n Through these themes, we addressed critical issues, namely the necessity of a targeted \u2018pull\u2019 system to attract the donation of certain\u00a0blood types (e.g. rare blood types, O-) and to address the reduction in blood demand (i.e. avoid storing too<\/em> much blood for too<\/em> long).<\/p>\n In addition to the commuter scenario (Everyday Pull), we developed two other future design scenarios to respond to these issues:<\/p>\n Blood Relay<\/strong><\/p>\n Partner:<\/strong> Northwest Blood Bikes provides a voluntary out-of-hours transport service to our NHS hospitals by carrying blood, platelets, samples, breast milk, etc. between hospitals that is urgently required. >>\u00a0Simon Hanson – Fleet Manager, Committee Member and Emergency Rider<\/p>\n Pitch: <\/strong>Expand the capacity of Blood Bikes by creating a multi-modal relay.<\/p>\n Team:<\/strong>\u00a0Ole B. Jensen, Cecilie Breinholm Christensen<\/p>\n Two key dynamics arose when we listened to Simon Hanson from Northwest Blood Bikes. First, how passionate<\/em>\u00a0Blood Bike volunteers feel about riding motorcycles. Second, the commitment of volunteers to do good <\/em>in the community. Building on this passion and desire to do good, we proposed an expansion of the current practice with the\u00a0Blood Relay<\/em> project. The Blood Relay<\/em> pulls together voluntary charity organizations with a shared interest in enhancing multi-modal mobility of blood, tissues and other medical products.\u00a0Blood Relay works by connecting community groups with a passion for motorcycles, drones, bicycles, kayaks, etc. and having these groups transport vital materials through an intermodal relay.<\/p>\n A vital part of the\u00a0Blood Relay<\/em> is the Lancaster Blood Relay Grid. The grid is the operational matrix of the Multi-Modal<\/em> Blood Relay<\/em>. The grid connects groups in each quadrant creating an overview of available modes, taking into consideration issues such as traffic congestion, difficult weather and infrastructure breakdown. For each quadrant there are mode-specific voluntary community groups that will contribute to the seamless transport of vital goods.<\/p>\n The main advantage of the Blood Relay<\/em> system is that it makes the transport of blood and other medical goods more resilient and flexible. By drawing on different transport modes and leveraging their relative advantages, the Blood Relay<\/em>, relative to just the use of motorcycles, covers a greater area, increases travel speed and expands system capacity.<\/p>\n Partner:<\/strong> Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team is a team of volunteers that helps fellow mountaineers who are in trouble. >>\u00a0Roger Pickup – Deputy Leader and Search and Rescue Dog Handler<\/p>\n Pitch: <\/strong>Create an offline network for hikers to backtrack and\/or connect with other hikers in the vicinity<\/p>\n Team: <\/strong>Louise M\u00f8ller Hasse,\u00a0Line Sand Knudsen, Michael Planck<\/p>\n After an inspiring introduction to the work of Mountain Search and Rescue, our team started mapping out the possible challenges that the rescue team was meeting, trying to identify a design problem\/opportunity to improve. A few of the common challenges in the Lake District is that hikers get lost, they are not aware of the risks in the area and\/or how to prepare for a safe experience. \u00a0Our team ended up asking: How can we design a safety net for hikers in the Lake District without compromising the hiking experience?<\/em><\/p>\n Our proposal was the \u2018Human Compass\u2019 \u2013 a personal wearable connected to other hikers in the District. The main idea is that you can help others (and yourself) when getting lost, or even in critical situations, by guiding you to other people in the vicinity\u00a0or, in serious cases, to call the Mountain Rescue team, which\u00a0can easily identify your position using the Human Compass .<\/p>\n It has been inspiring to collaborate with the people and in the environment of Lancaster University. Many thanks to you and not least the community partners for sharing work experiences and for challenging us with exiting cases to the workshop!<\/p>\n Credit main photo: www.bloodbikes.org.uk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do we move vital goods in times of crisis?\u00a0How do medical\u00a0and rescue organizations move blood when and where needed? 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