Makers: Health (August) Digest
A look at the projects and people from our third Makers: Health

Here at No Moss we always challenge all mortals who come into our domain to be the very best of what they do, and at last weeks event we wrapped up one of our most aspiring Makers events to date in partnership with The Centre for Independent Studies. Makers: Health (August) was the second event in our series of Health events, as well as our second event to feature a number of innovation owners helping the teams create. The theme for the event was Save time, Save lives — reducing the amount of time it takes to access vital medical services. This provided the teams with a useful space to create projects in that could better the world of health.
Makers is a community-guildhouse-meets-incubator with a focus on learning through creating. On the surface, it is a startup accelerator program punctuated with prototyping events every six weeks. Under the hood, it is a community of people who put their sweat where their ideas are. The results of these projects are successful applications going into market.

The most ambitious project to come out of the event was definitely Queue’d, developed by Pauline Su, Jack Perry, John Codeinaire, Hyun Kim, and Suyin Kee. It was a combined effort of five participants, all developing an application related to the theme, “Save time, Save lives”. Users start by selecting a suburb, which then displays various clinics closest to you and how long waiting times are at each. You are then able to further refine these times by selecting the type of visit you’re looking for, and a specific doctor you’d like to see.
Queue’d is aimed to providing people transparency of time so that patients have a more thorough knowledge of when to come in or how long they need to wait. It provides real time data including any delays to improve visibility and prevent patients waiting longer.
Click here to watch the pitch.

The next project we’re going to take a look is LifeTree, developed by Michael Fung and Gladys Chee. The app aims to make work at clinics and hospitals more accurate and accessible. It provides barcodes for each patient so doctors can identify the patient through a scanning system; preventing the addition or change of information to the wrong patient. Also, the application streamlines the location of information so that doctors don’t have to look through pages and pages of patient data.
Click here to watch the pitch.

The last project we’re going to take a look at is Pain Tracker, developed by Toby Coy and Kira Rose. The app assists those with chronic pain by helping them track incidents of pain. Some of the features the application includes are tracking a patient’s mood, information on the location of pain, diet, and sleep patterns. The application can also be customised to fit the user’s schedule. The aim of the app is to make it easier for patients to give their doctors information on their pain between sessions, enabling doctors to give more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
Click here to watch the pitch.

That wraps up our look back at Makers: Health (August). It really was a blast putting on this event, and we were very much wowed by all the projects that our teams created. There were even more than the ones we touched on in this article, so if you’d like to see all of them you can see a playlist of the pitches and talks at the event on our Youtube page.

We’d like to thank all of the innovation owners who attended the event. It was a great experience hosting you and hearing all about the contemporary problems facing your industries. Many of our Makers expressed how much of a help it was to learn about health issues from you, and how grateful they were to have your expertise guiding their projects.
Makers: Health (August) was the second in our series of three health themed events. We have more events coming up, starting with Makers: Health (December), which is being run in collaboration with Hello Sunday Morning. If you’d interested in attending and creating projects like those mentioned in this article, you can find out more information and sign up on our website.
We hope to see you there,
The Makers Team.

