Cases for Digital HealthCare
Design Thinking for SmartHealth Cases
Let’s Design The Hospital Of The Future! - The Medical Futurist
A BBC documentary aired in the 1950s featured huge lamps in the operating room. They said that the medical record could get to the doctor sooner than the actual patient. Quite futuristic things, right? Well, we need to be more brave about that. If the hospital of the future will not be our home, it should include a few new technologies. Let's see which ones!
Next Revolution in Healthcare: Empathy!
Patienterne i centrum for Healthcare Services
Insights from the ER
At Worrell, our passion for healthcare leads us to design for a patient-centric future. We set out to explore the extremes of emergency medicine in order to learn more about the provision of care in that dynamic environment. Our goal was to re-imagine how that system of emergency care might be impacted by design, advancements in health information technology, and wireless technology.
Instead, we found a shift in our thinking in what it truly means to be patient-centric. In trauma cases, care is delivered solely on behalf of the patient. Care is well coordinated, rapid, and driven by established protocols. These principles of trauma care inspired us to ask the question, if these principles were applied to general medicine, how could the system work better on behalf of the patient? This video documents our exploration of one potential care model for a patient centric future.
Bring Design Thinking to Healthcare
BT Stuck pauses a moment to describe his graduate days in visual communication design, which led him to healthcare.
David Kester: We need to be in a state of constant design.
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Designer David Kester recently left his position as chief executive of the Design Council in the United Kingdom to explore a new challenge at Thames and Hudson Publishers. At this year’s What Design Can Do conference, Kester spoke about the ways in which design is increasingly useful for organisations, institutions and social purposes.
In his presentation at the conference, Kester focused a project titled ODE, which looks at ways people with dementia can remain independent and continue to live in their homes. “One of the greatest obstacles for people suffering from dementia is that they tend to forget to eat. This leads to weight loss, often resulting in them being taken into care”, says Kester. ODE is an appetite stimulation by aroma that maintains an interest in eating, “it just reminds the dementia sufferer that now is the time to eat, now I feel peckish, and it has worked”, says Kester.
In this interview, Kester explained that although designers are not always the ones coming up with groundbreaking ideas, they are able to make things more elegant and bring dignity into the design process.
Designers are the people who will figure out the best way to implement ideas using fun, enthusiasm and optimism. They bring a wonderful sense of hope and that’s what I love about design: optimism and hope, says Kester.
Kester used a hospital bedside table as an example of how using people in various fields can lead to discovering more than we know currently. “If we use scientists, nurses, patients and design researches, we will find out new and exciting things”, says Kester.
Designers are increasingly being used in developing whole new ideas and are part of the discovery and exploration process, says Kester.
Through implementing design into all elements of a business in order to better the business and increase its profits, Kester used the White Logistics and Storage company to highlight the importance of embedding design into all aspects of an establishment. “Design was able to put this company at the forefront of business and their competitors”, says Kester.
I believe you need to continue developing the high quality craft skills, while placing designers into multidisciplinary teams to work on interesting problem sets. The institutions that get this right will serve us well in the future, says Kester.
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Monash Health and Isobar Cases
Good recognised that adolescents with disabilities or chronic health issues are at a vulnerable point in their lives. As a minority group coming through Monash hospital they often get forgotten about. It is important to set this group up for success, enabling them enter early adulthood with every expectation of being valuable and productive members of society.
We wanted to look at how design thinking can help solve their day-to-day challenges and what sort of initiatives these kids and teenagers would like to see improve their care at the hospital, and their lives overall.
Kids for Kids. Kuldiga vol.2
In one week creative Service design summer school "Kids for Kids" 6 - 11 year old participants did service design proposal for Kids hospital in Kuldiga, Latvia.
Superheros
As children, we dreamed of being superheroes. But as we grew, we moved beyond the imagined superpowers of our childhood to embrace our own ability to create life-changing technologies. Paired with MC10, the Worrell team was challenged to envision a world where embedded computing power could be used to enhance the performance of our daily activities. What resulted was a sixth sense, extending our natural abilities, ultimately improving lives. Please enjoy Worrell’s latest digital story “Superheroes."
This is Service Design Thinking
Service Design Berlin, Summer School
