Last but not least, there is agrowing. necessity forthe social sciences and. humanities to fnd new roles and. relevance by generating knowledge. applicable tothe new dynamicsand structures of contemporaryand future societies. in which areas will social innovations. havethe greatest impactinthe future?. Our society is not only facing such. challenges as social exclusion and. unemployment as well as inequalitiesin wealth, education, and health care,but also climate change and sustainable.development. The most urgent and. important innovationsinthe 21st century. will take placeinthe social feld.

Traditional waysin whichthe marketandthe state have responded to societal.demandsare no longer suffcient. At thesame time, technological innovations. reveal limitations when it comes to coping. with pressing societal challenges.

If Germany wants to move forward. on its way to becoming aglobal innovation. leader, it will be necessary to include social. innovation as part of acomprehensive. innovation strategy and to open up theinnovation process to society. However, inorder to better assessthe impact of social. innovations, we need to understand theconditions under which they emerge,spread, and lead to social change.

This is akey task of social innovation. research, an emerging area which. should be given higher priority if we. want to meetthe numerous challenges. our society is facing.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Howaldt. Director, Central Scientifc Institute,Technische Universität Dortmund. Interview with:30 31Whatare some ofthe studies you’re. currently conductingin this area?. As afollow-up to our experiment. that showed that social stress. processing is abnormalinthe brains. of city dwellers, we’re currently. using this observation to try to fnd. out what exactly it isin acity that. increases your risk or increases your. resilience to city life and stress. Weare doing this by using asmartphone. that people carry. It allows researchers to localize peoplein cities. We ask. them: “How do you feel?” “What’s. your stress level?” Things like that.

We also have maps ofthe city. environment, maps of green spaces. or socioeconomic status or noise. or pollution, things that we believe. might be important. So we track people’s experiencein conjunction with. their social geographic. environment and then we bring. people intothe laboratory at theUniversity of Heidelberg.

We conduct. our experiment and measurein their. brainsthe extent to which their stress. processing is abnormal. Then we ask. which aspects ofthe urban environment. these people have been exposed tointhe previous days predictthe brain response. In this way,what we’re getting - througha.combination of neuroscience and. urban science - is arank ordering. of things thatare good for you. or bad for you as aresult of livingin acity.

Event Speaker:_. Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg. Director, Central Institute of Mental Health,Mannheim, Germany; Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University. Prof. Dr. Andrew Rundle. Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman. School of Public Health, Columbia University. Irmintraud Jost. Executive Director. Heidelberg University Association (Moderator)

Stress andthe City. November 2,Co-Sponsor:_. Livingin amajor urban area is. associated with greater lifetime risk. for anxiety, schizophrenia, and mood. disorders. Why?. That’s avery good question. It’s actually. quite interesting because citiesare abig. success story,in general. Peoplein cities. are, as arule, healthier; they have better. access to health care and contraception;. theyare richer; and that is one of thereasons why there is massive urbanization.

But there is also adark side, and that is. exhibited by mental illness, which is clearly. increasedin cities. If you’re currently livingin abig city like New York, your risk for.depression and anxiety increases by about. 30, 40, 50 percentin large analyses.

And if you’re bornin abig city and raised. thereinthe frst years of your life, then therisk for schizophrenia, asevere mental. disorder, increases by 300 percent. That’s. a lot more than any gene, for example, that. we know for these illnesses. So, that. curious observation has led many people to theorize: “What could it bein cities that. causes increased risk of mental illness?”and one ofthe fndings that our laboratories. hadin astudy conducted atthe University. of Heidelberg was that this might have to do with social stress - with people incities being more reactive to social stressand we think also being more exposed to social stress, especially when social. networksin citiesare fragmented.

What can acity dweller do to immunize. his or her brain againstthe effects. of urban stress?. This is avery good question because. you can’t easily move out ofthe city.

That is something people can try. individually, but as agroup, more than half. ofthe world’s population livesin cities, so. it will become rather crowdedinthe country. if you try that. You’d have to try something. else and part of what our research is. currently doing is trying to fgure out. which aspects of city lifeare good for you. or bad for you with regards to resilience to stress. One result from that research. is that it is really good to be exposed to green space. It can be as small as atreeinthe corner; it can be Central Park orthe High Line. The extent to which youare exposed to green space is up to you;. however, research has clearly shown. this to have avery benefcial effect. on your stress processing. Another thing. that you should be trying to do is to improve your social connectedness. because one ofthe paradoxes of cities. is youare very close together,the packing.density is high, if you will, but theconnectedness of people is lowerandthe connections themselves are. often not very positive; they can evenbe adversarial. So, working on that,having spaces where people know youand like you, like aclub or you go toa. choir and sing, or work with your familyand friends, that’s going to be very. benefcial. And fnally, if you’re really. stressed, thereare proven techniques thatare easy to learn, such as mindfulness,which is atechnique derived from. meditation that we now use very broadlyin psychiatry to help people relax and get. a grip on their emotions. So there are. always things that you can try to do to reduce your stressin cities.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg. Director, Central Institute of Mental Health,Mannheim, Germany; Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University. Interview with: Currently, over 50 percent ofthe world’s population livesin cities. By 2050 over. two-thirds of people will residein urban. environments. Although city living has many. advantages, residingin cities is often associated. with ahigh cost of living, high crime rates,and large population density. Research has. also shown that people who grow upin cities. process negative emotions, such as stress,differently from those who move tothe city. as adults. These and other factors often resultin severe or prolonged stress. A panel of experts. discussed whether city living makesthe brain. more susceptible to mental health conditions,whether people livingin cities and rural areas. differinthe way that their brains process. stressful situations, as well as whether scientistsare able to detect which aspects of city lifeare most stressful - fndings which may help to improvethe way urban areasare designed.

32 33of people who have bought wearable. health trackers but do not use them daily,a diabetic patient or one suffering from. Alzheimer’s disease may turn to such. tools not for interest, but for survival.

As medical devices jointhe ranks of theInternet of Things, patients and physicians. havethe opportunity for unprecedented. access to health information. Skin patches can track adiabetic patient’s blood. glucose levels 24 hours aday, withouta. single fnger prick, to prevent spikes or. crashes. Adhesive devices not much. larger than aBand-Aid can monitor an. elderly patient’s heart rhythm at all times,or deploy 3-D sensors and onboard. accelerometers to detect an unstable gaitand call for helpinthe event of afall.

Smartphones can perform electrocardiograms and ultrasounds, and engineers. have turned mobile devices into optical. microscopes capable of fast, sophisticated disease detectionin any setting.

This nonstop stream of data comes at acost, however, explained Dr. Sam. Bierstock, aretired surgeon and expert. on healthcare information technology.

“It’s one thing to have all this data, and to collect it and make it accurate - but. you have to get it tothe people who. can use it and not overload them. It’sa. huge challenge,” he said. Data from. personal health tracking apps as well. as medical devices can bombard usersand their healthcare providers with. information that is certainly plentiful, but. may have limited utility. Simply being. able to generate data is notthe endpoint - designing useful algorithms to interpret and transmit data to thosein aposition to act on it, whether it’s thepatient or his physician, isthe ultimate. goal of such personal health monitoring.

Synchronizing and securing health data is. also an area of concern. Electronic health. record (EHR) systems, now used by most. major and many smaller hospital systems,do not share information. Thus, data. collected at one hospital is not accessible to hospitals using adifferent EHR, amajor. factor compromising continuity and. quality of care. Additionally, electronic. health recordsare more valuable than. credit card or even social security. numbers, making them prime targets for. cyber criminals. “It coststhe bad guys. almost nothing to try to get into thesesystems, and they only need to fnd one. way in,” said Dr. Peter Levin, CEO of Amida Technology Solutions and theformer Chief Technology Offcer for theUnited States Department of Veterans. Affairs. “Asthe good guys, we have to not only defend against blistering. attacks [on our health record systems],but we have to remember allthe ways. attackers have tried to get in. The asymmetry is enormous. ”. Personal monitoring devices for both. disease prevention and managementare predicted to become aubiquitous.component of healthcare as quickly asthe year ***

But experts caution that. eventhe smartest monitoring devicesandthe most precise dataare useless. without interpretation. As Dr. Bierstock. noted, “medicine is not adigital science. - you have to putthe information. intothe hands of professionals. ”. Wearable technologies, likethe activity trackers now ubiquitous among city. dwellers and suburbanites alike, have shifted. people’s perception of ftness. What was once an. amorphous concept has been transformed into. a set of health-related data points as real and. tangible asthe exquisitely tuned, sensor-packed. wristbands that millions wear each day. An estimated 500 million smartphone users. have downloaded personal health-related applications, and that number is expected to more. than double before ***

Whetherthe goal is to exercise more, eat less, stop smoking,dodge food allergens or learn to meditate,there’s an app to support it.

Beyond ftness, chip miniaturization and therapid advancement of sensor technologies is. fueling arevolutionin both wearable and. implantable devices that can help diagnoseand manage disease. For those with chronic. illness,the wearables market is driven by neither. form nor novelty; unlikethe more than 50 percent. Just ten years ago, asking afriend or colleague how many steps they walked. that day would have been met with blank stares and befuddlement. Today,more people than ever have this number at their fngertips - along with how. many miles they traveled, their average heart rate, andthe number of calories. burnedinthe process. Each morning, millions of people wake up and consulta. smartphone app to fnd out how many hours they sleptthe night before.

By Hallie Kapner An increasing number of medical devices, such as heart rate monitors, pacemakers,defbrillators, and drug delivery systems, use. wireless communication to monitor patients bothin hospitals and at home. These devices use. personal data and health-related information.

Moreover, devices such as implantable cardiac.defbrillators and pacemakers treat chronic. diseases with electrical therapy that can bewirelessly modifed. These devices and systems. thus represent agrowing risk with respect tothe security ofthe medical data they contain.

The speakers discussed patient privacy, data. security, and amore integrative approach to healthcarein aging societies.

Event Speakers:_. Dr. Peter Levin. Co-Founder & CEO, Amida Technology Solutions. Sam Bierstock, MD, BSEE. President & Founder, Championsin Healthcare, LLC. Guido Schmitz. Director of Global Packaging Design, Innovation. R&D Department, Bayer Consumer Care. Prof. Dr. -Ing. Christof Paar. Chair for Embedded Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum;. Adjunct Professorin Electrical & Computer. Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst(Moderator)

Opportunities and Risksin E-Health. November 4,“Electronic health records are. more valuable than credit card. or even social security numbers,making them prime targets. for cyber criminals. ”. Co-Sponsor:_. Patient, Monitor Thyself:Risks and Revolutionin Personal Health Monitoring. 34 35GCRI ONthe WEB. “GCRI continues to facilitate meaningful and. robust dialogue on international innovation. trends drivingthe 21st century global economy.

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