Innovation is a hot buzzword in healthcare, and digital health investment is booming. But how can the industry create successful tools that are actually useful for patients?
”There’s an opportunity here to both succeed and to fail,” said Molly Woodriff, MPH, senior product manager at NYU Langone Health, during her presentation at HIMSS21: "Design thinking is something that can really increase...
Update: HIMSS20 has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Read more here.
Pamphlets and binders are old hat when it comes to take-home patient education. Instead, a growing number of providers are referring their patients to mobile apps and other digital resources.
It’s an approach that South Shore Health System’s Luke Poppish says comes with a number of major benefits for a health system — an...
Update: HIMSS20 has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Read more here.
Patient satisfaction is a laudable goal for any healthcare provider, but winning high quality ratings and patients’ trust goes well beyond courteous staff and warm bedside manners. Consistent record keeping, robust contingency plans, well-supported staff and strong end-to-end engagement all play a role in crafting the ideal...
It’s little exaggeration to say that the healthcare industry has been transformed by new technologies. Automation, big data analysis, consumer-facing digital tools and more are steadily becoming the norm in daily care, and by and large come with promises of better outcomes and lower costs.
But not every new technology that’s made it to the big show has been a home run, however, and just about...
When it comes to healthcare design it takes a village — or perhaps more accurately, a hospital community.
“We believe behind every healthcare interaction there is a human story, and the designer’s mindset is to discover what that human story is and use that as an impetus for innovating solutions,” Aaron Sklar, cofounder of Prescribe Design, said at a panel on design in healthcare at the World...
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently released a whitepaper, based on a workshop held last April, on designing telehealth and remote visits for consumers. The 20-page document is interesting, extensive, and hits on some good points about how to make telehealth convenient and effective for consumers. Yet both the whitepaper and the workshop excluded the viewpoint...
At MadPow's Healthcare Experience Design 2012 conference this week in Boston, Josh Clark the founder of design consulting firm Global Moxie shared his "Seven Deadly Mobile Myths" in a presentation that would likely resonate with many working in mobile health today. Clark's first major foray into healthcare apps was with the very popular Couch-to-5K website and app, which originally launched in...
