You might find our Melbourne Design Week Q&A event well worth listening to if you’ve never wondered about the benefits of having your health information at your fingertips, or if you didn’t know that (in most countries) your GP owns your medical record, not you!
Listen up, take action and drive a system change that puts you at the centre of your healthcare.
WATCH the professionally facilitated Q&A event for Melbourne Design Week about My Health Story (MHS), a digital platform that enables people to organise, reflect on and communicate their health information across their care journey.
MHS was born from lived experience: years of misdiagnosis, chronic pain and navigating fragmented healthcare systems revealed design failures that inspired a patient-centred solution.
Founder, artist, and chronic pain advocate Soula Mantalvanos, and co-director, husband, and carer Theo Mantalvanos, will share the origin story, the role of caregiving, and how their experiences shaped a platform that improves communication, reduces administrative burden, and gives individuals more control over their care.
The Q&A session aims to explore healthcare as a design problem, demonstrating how putting individuals at the centre of their care improves access to information, enhances coordination and drives better outcomes.
Key themes include:
- behaviour change – at the individual, provider and system level.
- the potential to transform a fragmented system into one that works for people.
- real-world benefits for practitioners, including clearer patient histories, reduced duplication and more efficient consultations.
The project demonstrates how design thinking applied to lived experience can support a more connected healthcare system.
The successful event was facilitated by Gabriel Edwards, who led the discussion, offering insights to a live audience in Melbourne and online, that included designers, healthcare professionals, researchers, changemakers, and investors who expressed interest and offered further ideas on the power of lived-experience-led healthtech and how it can deliver measurable impact.
To continue the conversation, contact My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, directly at soula@myhealthstory.com.au.
Melbourne Design Week Gabriel Soula Theo
