Design for multiverse healthcare: The innovation spaces and transformation paths of the medical and health industry in the Digital Era

Abstract: With the popularization of intelligent technology and digital survival methods, the medical and health industry faces numerous opportunities, challenges and changes. This study aims to explore the innovation space and transformation path of the medical and health industry in the era of digital survival. First of all, this study starts with the concepts of big health and big health industry, and summarizes the whole life cycle of individual health and the multiple innovation spaces of health design. In the exploration of multiverse healthy design, the study starts with the analysis of human identity, and defines the way of human existence in the future society as conscious human, physical human, social human, and digital human; thus, different types of health are derived, namely mental health, physical health, social health, and digital health; and the multiple innovation spaces of the medical and health industry are analyzed, namely, consciousverse (conscious space), physicalverse (physical space), socialverse (social space), and digitalverse (digital space). Each innovation space has its own unique characteristics and functions, and they can influence, intersect and interact with each other, providing new possibilities for improving people's health level and quality of life. Secondly, the study analyzes the five major transformation paths of the health industry, namely"Digitalization&Intelligence","Inclusion&Accessibility","Personalization&Customization","Systematicness&Intersectionality", and "Globalization&Localization". The content of this study will expand new innovation space, provide new innovation inspiration and transformation ideas for designers, technicians, researchers engaged in the development of health products, services and experiences, as well as institutions, organizations, enterprises and practitioners related to the health industry.

Keywords: Big Health, Big Health Industry, Future Healthcare, Design Futures, Multiverse, Innovation Space, Transformation Path, Digital Survival

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005703

Cite this paper:

​