Design as a Critical Healthcare Profession
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The challenge of healthcare demands both rigorous methods and a humane outlook responsive to patients and practice. We are interested in your stories & ideas, so please join the site or contact me (Peter Jones).
Twitter @designforcare
Invitation to Contributors
"How, if at all, are you Thinking Twitter in your design or healthcare projects?"
And, How are public social services being used for care conversations?
While some of us are using social services to communicate and exchange, others are using in real world user applications. Is anyone working with patient communities using Twitter? Clinicians? If so, how?
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Designing for Care and Care in Design
Summary: Healthcare and appropriate, informed care practices are of critical importance to nearly everyone. Healthcare practice is changing, will continue to change and adapt to technology and consumer demands, and its delivery and institutions are changing. Service and product designers need to understand their role in the practices and systems involved in both health services and consumer health information. The notions of appropriate or poor design in healthcare must be removed from the point of application and expanded. It becomes a design imperative to include both the “sharp end” of patient care and the softer management context of systems, practice, decisions, and information. Failures from either end can be equally final.
Blog Posts
Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary 2/7/10
Posted by Sam on February 7, 2010 at 11:57pm
Hospitals of the Future
Photo: The Sarah Network of Brazil
Hospitals of the Future. This Scandinavian design firm's blog illustrates some of the challenges in service design for large hospitals. While different collections of design methods and strategies have been employed in the… Continue
Posted by Peter Jones on February 2, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary 1/31/10
Posted by Sam on February 1, 2010 at 3:52pm — 2 Comments
New Funding Grants for UK Care sector launched this week!
The Department of Health in the UK has also built an network for people who work in the Care sector and have a twitter account (@DignityCampaign).
What is most interesting about this fund is that it's using a model that is quite different than traditional governm… Continue
Posted by Katherine Hui on January 13, 2010 at 9:30am
Forum
New Ways to Review Healthcare Literature
The Interpretive Collaborative Review (ICR) process is designed to guide collaborative profiling, scoring, and recording of jointly perceived significance associated with online publications. The goa…
Started by Peter Jones 19 hours ago.
A great article from the front lines 1 Reply
Hello everyone,I read this very insightful article by Christine Sinsky, MD: http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0300/p6.html Dr. Sinsky has been a vocal proponent of usability in HIT, most recently commenti…
Started by Brady Anderson. Last reply by Peter Jones 20 hours ago.
Open Innovation Contest
Get to know Amy Tenderich and her Diabetes Mine healthcare blog. Last year, the 2009 Diabetes Mine contest led to an incredibly feasible and well-designed innovation, that led its $10K winner on to M…
Started by Peter Jones Feb 2.
Social Applications in Health Communities 1 Reply
How are you adapting your products and services to Twitter, Facebook, and other social network resources? How is Twitter trending in patient care or in clinical information exchange? We probably kno…
Tagged: Communities, Health, Twitter, media, Social
Started by Peter Jones. Last reply by Peter Jones Jan 14.
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