EMHS Youth Innovation Think Tank 2020 20 August 2020On Tuesday 11 August year ten and eleven students from seven high schools attended the annual EMHS Youth Innovation Think Tank.
The EMHS Youth Innovation Think Tank pairs high school students with clinicians and subject matter experts to collaborate on innovation solutions to common health issues.
This year we hosted students from Lakeland Senior High School, Mercy College, Swan View Senior High School, Comet Bay College, Belridge Senior High School, Methodist's Ladies College and Shenton College.
The students, guided by their expert mentors from EMHS and Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), tackled either telehealth digital literacy or adolescent patient transition with the goal of finding a workable solution.
The students then pitched their ideas to an Executive Judging Panel, who chose Methodist's Ladies College (MLC) as the winning team.
MLC focused on the issue of adolescent patient transition and developed an innovative ‘QRious’ system using Quick Response (QR...