We design digital infrastructures for equitable, participatory and resilient health systems.
Convivens Lab is an applied research, design and development laboratory at HEG Geneva (HES-SO), working at the interface between digital health, health systems and public-interest governance.
What we do
We do not build applications. We do not build dashboards. We do not build prototypes meant to impress. We build infrastructures. Digital, organizational, semantic and governance infrastructures designed to make health systems more equitable, more understandable and more resilient over time.
What We Build
We design and implement health data infrastructures, federated observatories, decision-support systems, participatory governance frameworks, evaluation and accountability mechanisms, interoperability standards, and patient-led digital tools. Our goal is not novelty, but durability.
Focus Areas
Our work is organized around five interconnected focus areas.
Equitable Health Infrastructures
Designing infrastructures that reduce structural inequalities instead of reproducing them.
Rare & Neglected Conditions
Working with communities facing chronic neglect to rethink access, research priorities, and care pathways.
Trustworthy Health Systems
Building systems that are understandable, auditable, contestable, and worthy of trust.
Care Navigation & Patient Agency
Reducing the complexity burden imposed on patients and their families.
Applied AI & Real-World Evaluation
Developing responsible, interpretable AI systems grounded in real-world use.
Selected Initiatives
Current projects, infrastructures, and collaborations.
BeeMyBlood
Access to safe, compatible blood products is not only a clinical issue; it is an infrastructural and governance problem.
Equitable Health Infrastructures
Read moreSwissNeuroRehab
Neurorehabilitation pathways are fragmented across institutions, cantons, and disciplines.
Equitable Health Infrastructures
Read moreCareWatch
Harm, discrimination, and systemic failures are often invisible in health systems.
Trustworthy Health Systems
Read moreTREVOR
Patients with chronic or complex conditions face fragmented information, inconsistent guidance, and poorly coordinated services.
Care Navigation & Patient Agency
Read moreEMMA
Mobility barriers strongly shape access to care, employment, and social participation, yet remain poorly integrated into health system design.
Care Navigation & Patient Agency
Read moreEDITSCD
Gene therapy and genome editing approaches for sickle cell disease require rigorous evaluation frameworks that go beyond clinical efficacy to assess equity, access, and long-term governance.
Rare & Neglected Conditions
Read moreASCertain
Many populations remain statistically invisible.
Rare & Neglected Conditions
Read moreWAI Think Tank
AI governance is dominated by technical and corporate framings that often exclude critical perspectives and participatory approaches.
Trustworthy Health Systems
Read moreWho We Work With
We collaborate with hospitals and clinical networks, patient organizations, cities and public administrations, universities, foundations, international organizations, and industry partners under strict ethical guardrails.
Why Convivens Lab Exists
Many digital health projects fail not for lack of technology, but because of governance problems, misaligned incentives, and structural blindness to inequality. We exist to address these blind spots.