Dialoasis, Design, and Determination

Heading into our big implementation week, I spent a lot of time thinking about dialysis, and what exactly we were setting out to accomplish. My motivation for joining the GMI program was driven by the desire to work to improve the lives of patients around the world....
Week 4: Cuartito Completo

Week 4: Cuartito Completo

In approximately 35 hours of a work week, our team had completed a (mostly) fully functioning prototype for our DialOasis implementation project! An unbelievable feat that we were all certainly proud of. A feat like this requires concentrated time blocks of work,...
DialOasis Coming to Life

DialOasis Coming to Life

This week we’ve been “sprinting” to the finish line with our DialOasis project. A “sprint” is a five-day push to design and create a prototype of a solution. The goal of a sprint is customer feedback on the last day. This provides maximum value with minimal...

Week 4: Prototyping

This past week we had a very focused objective of completing a prototype to get patient and doctor feedback on Friday. The prototype was mostly designed by last year’s GMI cohort, so our main task was to make it out of locally available materials. You may be thinking,...
Week 4: Don’t Stop Just Yet

Week 4: Don’t Stop Just Yet

(Bug Bite Counter: 56)   Here’s your weekly video recap of what GMI has been up to: DialOasis and Ziplines!   As I sit in the sunny, temperate climate of the central valley of Santa Ana, I can only look back and smile at all that our team has...