Health and life sciences

Scaling intelligent health in constrained systems

EBRAINS

2022–2024

Advancing brain research through open science
OXMAN

2022–2024

System-level change through nature-centric design
New England Journal of Medicine

2018–2019

200 years of medical breakthroughs
Gleamer

Since 2023

Elevating patient care with AI

Health and life sciences organizations have a historical opportunity. Patients are more open than ever to digital care. Payers are shifting to outcome-based models. And AI can genuinely relieve the cost and staffing constraints holding the industry back.

AREA 17 helps you run successful transformation by shaping brand, experience, and technology as a single, coherent system.

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Health and life sciences organizations can no longer compete on innovation claims. Trust, and increasingly funding, goes to those that connect every AI and digital promise to measurable impact on access, cost, and clinical results, and that treat data protection and usage transparency as central to how they present themselves to patients, partners, and payers.
Patients expect care to feel like the best digital experiences they have anywhere. Fragmented portals, episodic touchpoints, and disconnected clinical workflows fail that expectation, and drive avoidance, non-adherence, and clinician burnout. The organizations pulling ahead are redesigning journeys end-to-end: from finding care to staying well, with AI handling routine interactions and human expertise reserved for the moments that determine outcomes.
AI only delivers at scale when the foundations beneath it are stable, interoperable, and governed. Most healthcare organizations are not there yet: fragmented systems, ad hoc pilots, and security treated as an afterthought create risk faster than value. The organizations building a lasting advantage are those that modernize their data infrastructure first, embed security and governance from day one, and scale AI only once the architecture can support it.

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Director of Experience Design, Humanly

Health and life sciences index

Latent Labs

Since 2025
Gleamer

Elevating patient care with AI

Since 2023
The Technology Partnership

The space to invent

Since 2018
EBRAINS

Advancing brain research through open science

2022–2024
OXMAN

System-level change through nature-centric design

2022–2024
Nanodiamond Biotechnologies

2023
The Lancet

2021–2022
Whitehead Institute

Clarifying the complexity of foundational research

2020
Wyss Center

Advancing our understanding of the brain

2020
Elsevier

2020
TNBC Foundation

2019
New England Journal of Medicine

200 years of medical breakthroughs

2018–2019
Humanly

A new kind of patient experience

2018
Simons Foundation

Advancing research in mathematics and the sciences

2017
Eurac Research

2012–2017
Wyss Institute

Biologically inspired engineering

2016
Human Grid

2013

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Health and life sciences

Scaling intelligent health in constrained systems

EBRAINS

OXMAN

New England Journal of Medicine

Gleamer

Compete on proven outcomes instead of promises

Turn fragmented interactions into continuous care journeys

Stabilize your foundations, before scaling AI

Health and life sciences index

Latent Labs

Gleamer

The Technology Partnership

EBRAINS

OXMAN

Nanodiamond Biotechnologies

The Lancet

Whitehead Institute

Wyss Center

Elsevier

TNBC Foundation

New England Journal of Medicine

Humanly

Simons Foundation

Eurac Research

Wyss Institute

Human Grid