OuiShare Fest Barcelona, the Festival of Collaborative Health

On the past 26-27 October, Barcelona was host to the second edition of the OuiShare Fest Barcelona 2016, the most important professional event in collaborative economy, an emerging economic-social discipline that explores the technology’s potential in reducing transaction costs – three examples are worth a thousand words: Uber, Airbnb, Wallapop.

Producing makes less sense if sharing is within reach of everyone: today not even the traditionalist economy, as the article in The Economist (March 2013) says, can deny the implications of this maxim.

So how can we apply the principles of success of these applications (sharing available resources and coordinating agents) in the world of health?

Joan Guanyabens (digital health expert consultant), Oscar Flores (Made of Genes), Mª Jesús Salido (Social Diabetes), Carlos Castillo (Eurecat), Begoña Nafria (Sant Joan de Déu) and Genís Roca (RocaSalvatella) are some of the speakers who will discuss this.

The health track pivoted around two central axes: the role of the patient and Big Data in health. The first because the patient is ever more proactive regarding their own health; platforms like the new Portal AppSalut will help improve the management of health apps by the patient and health professionals, and through the, still long, route of the processes of shared decision taking, with the analysis and improvement of the patient experience.

The second because it is at the centre of the discussion: how can we express the management of this knowledge and what role do the citizens play? Joan Guanyabens, Javi Creus (Ideas for Change) and Andrea Barbiero (digital health expert consultant) anticipated the creation of a workgroup with the goal of making a proposal in this area.

Under the motto of “Deconstruct, reinvent, combine”, the Fest brought more than 80 speakers and 500 attendees to the Parc Tecnològic Barcelona Activa, figures which meant a success which is already foreseen in the second edition in which health will foreseeably play an even more consolidated role.