It's Not Just Roads and Bridges: Our "Civic Healthcare Infrastructure" is Crumbling, and Here's How to Fix It

promote cross-border innovative healthcare solutions and expand the pipeline of groundbreaking ideas linked to technology in community health. The goal of 'Bio 9 Ventures' is to leverage emerging technologies such as point of care diagnostics, home healthcare services, telehealth practices, preventive care initiatives and women's health, which demonstrate the immense potential to transform health care delivery.

Civic Healthcare Innovations are essential

"Civic engagement and Civic infrastructure" are a "system of organizations and relationships - with the explicit goal of maximizing public participation and private agencies in service of better public problem-solving." That includes everything from the public health centers where people get access to primary care, to civic information sources and digital channels for learning about and engaging with government and civic healthcare initiatives.

The pandemic revealed vulnerabilities in brittle systems but also opened opportunities for healthcare innovations that should evolve and continue. School boards, city and county councils, and countless other boards and community organizations opened their meetings - many for the first time - making for "a golden age of public health access to the more responsible governmental bodies." However, many public health policies were less responsive, less participatory and less inclusive in today's world.

The good news is that there is considerable bipartisan agreement and momentum for investing in civic assets globally. Various life sciences enterprises, healthcare foundations, communities advocating for the Technology Modernization Funds, that allows governments to propose transformative technology projects to make their programs work more effectively and better engage citizens.

By prioritizing equity and genuine participation, and by working in deep partnership with community foundations and investing in catalytic leaders, civic healthcare infrastructure can help us envision a stronger and healthier world.

Our Civic Healthcare innovations addresses various Community Health Elements:

  • Identifying top public health concerns within the specific geographic area, such as environmental and social factors that affect healthy life choices.
  • Supplementing or developing intervention plans to address resource gaps in the community, such as establishing community health centers, mobile clinics, and outreach programs.
  • Initiating home healthcare-monitoring, point of care diagnostics, mobile imaging & radiological services.
  • Educating residents on the benefits of preventive care and healthy behaviors to facilitate life changes.
  • Providing essential services such as screenings, social support, and counseling, women’s health, pediatrics, chronic illnesses etc.
  • Helping residents gain access to resources such as affordable medical, dental, and mental health care services.
  • Reducing the need for expensive emergency care and hospitalizations.
  • Advocating for improved care for at-risk populations to state and federal policymakers.
  • Working with other community agencies to address the area’s mental, physical, cultural, and social characteristics.

Bio9Ventures Framing of Civic Innovations

The development of new or better methods, processes, systems or technologies by citizens to:

  • address healthcare challenges or harness opportunities for creating better futures;

  • positively influence or transform healthcare systems that impact their lives;

  • build cross-border connections to others, to place or to culture.