Rethinking Health
Our Rethinking Health initiative was launched in August 2007, thanks to a generous gift from Robert Pew, Chairman of the Board of Steelcase and Chair of ID's Board of Overseers. Rethinking Health brings together systems analysis and structured planning, user-centered design research, and design planning for value-added innovation, to explore what design thinking can contribute to "fixing the US healthcare system."
Related projects
Rethinking-DesignThinking-Healthcare
The Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families
Cardiac Cath Lab: IT User Experience & Information Flow
Related courses
Large Scale Systems Workshop
Design Workshop: Healthcare Research
In Autumn 2007, the Systems Workshop led by Charles Owen and John Pipino focused on five institutional stakeholders in the healthcare system: employers, health providers, health plans, suppliers and governments (go to the link below). The Human-Centered Healthcare Design Research Workshop led by Judith Gregory focuses on the 6th ubiquitous stakeholder group -- individuals and families, employees, communities and populations. The workshop focuses on people's experiences in everyday life in their interactions with key institutional stakeholders and in their wellness and healthcare actitivies. The research generates understandings from user-centered research that are suggestive for design. The first two projects in 2007 explore caregiving in the clinic in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, and caregiving in the home in 'sandwiched caregiving' families (go to links below).
Bibliography:
Designing for Cognitive Artifacts and Activities in Clinical Care
by Ji Hyun Sun
and Judith Gregory, International Association of Societies of Design Research, November 2007
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