Design for Care
Collaborative learning for transformative healthcare design
About the Book
Design for Care, a Rosenfeld "vertical" book, explores design practices across the spectrum of healthcare experience.
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
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
From the Field
Now available in e & print - Fred Trotter's new book on Healthcare IT is O'Reilly first entry in the healthcare sector. Thorough, detailed & highly recommended
Latest Activity
Designing for Care and Care in Design
Design for Care brings methods and practices found effective across healthcare contexts to designers in all situations, illustrated by current cases & design research. We aim to inform information, service, & system designers to make a positive difference in healthcare.
Healthcare and self-care practices are changing, rapidly. Each health sector has a different view of patient or user activity, but in so many cases there is no "user" to design for. Instead, we are all health seekers. The personal journey and spectrum of care may be unique to each health seeker. Designers must understand the whole health seeker - our upstream activities, defining moments, and downstream effects, and the services that we touch along the way. Design has an emerging role as a care provider - we have a responsibility to research, redesign, and remediate the touchpoints of care, informed by our understanding and designing for the health seeker.
Blog Posts
The trouble with treating patients as consumers
The trouble with treating patients as consumers
I somehow missed this January post from ePatient Dave and the HBR piece, but the perspective is very close to mine in the early chapters of the book.
HBR online: The Trouble with Treating Patients As Consumers, by Augusta Meill and Gianna Ericson at …
ContinuePosted by Peter Jones on March 15, 2012 at 11:35am
Responding to Mental Health 2.0
Emachi Enaji posted a thoughtful forum piece that I missed back in December (I'm probably used to seeing these in the Blog section above). I wanted to draw attention to his inquiry and two questions that get to the heart of design for care services. One thing Emachi said - in the middle - I'd like to focus on:
Continue" ... finding a means from the design perspective…
Posted by Peter Jones on January 18, 2012 at 4:26pm
Forum
Synovation Member Webinar: The Evolution of Innovation
Synovation Health Collaborative, the catalyst for a better health system, invites you to attend our monthly Webinar on the topic of the Evolution of Innovation by Mark Kestner, M.D. In his brief…Continue
Tags: webinar, Synovation, Arizona, innovation, systemic
Started by Chris Whitside Apr 18.
Design Literacy in the Mental Health 2.0 Domain 1 Reply
Hi All,I'm new to this group, but having browsed the archives alone, I'm unsure if there's been a conversation on the topic. The topic of providing some design literacy when seeking a basis for…Continue
Started by Emachi Eneje. Last reply by Peter Jones Jan 18.
What's Wrong With Medical Education Today? 1 Reply
A thoughtful and inspiring post from a psychiatrist, of all specialties, concerned about current medical education expanding its scope into practice and away from the centrality of the human body…Continue
Started by Peter Jones. Last reply by Peter Jones Jun 4, 2011.
Suggested Resources & Links 18 Replies
Hi all. Didn't see a place to suggest new links and resources, so I made one.
Started by Marc Rettig. Last reply by Bernard Farrell Feb 18, 2011.
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