July 2010
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Big-Data-Medicine: Google's Brin and Parkinson's... →
Jul 26th
Big-Data-Medicine (BDM) Gets A $100M Commitment... →
Jul 16th
Minute Clinic's Michael Howe at WIF10: "PACE... →
Jul 1st
June 2010
4 posts
Lessons for Innovators and Designers from the... →
Jun 25th
Future Care in Action: Geriatric Care Example →
Jun 24th
Future Care = Sensors + Big Data + Designed Care... →
Jun 23rd
IDEO's Method Cards →
Jun 16th
May 2010
14 posts
Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1629 members New Community/Blog site at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/members/blog_view.asp?id=570061 Linkedin group site at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: SERVICE DESIGN: Thinking vs. Doing Is Your Social Network Making You Sick?
May 23rd
Is Your Social Network Making You Sick? →
May 21st
SERVICE: Design Thinking vs. Design Doing →
New post at the new site.  See you there!
May 19th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1610 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Disruptively Innovating Healthcare by Clayton Christensen Social Network Beats Clinical Trial to Results McKinsey Sees an...
May 16th
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McKinsey Sees an Emerging Healthcare Innovation...
The global market for healthcare innovation is highlighted in this recent McKinsey Quarterly article.  Some of the strategies identified are:   Get close to the patient   Use existing technology to reinvent delivery   ‘Right skill’ the workforce Worth the read.
May 16th
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May 14th
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Disruptively Innovating Healthcare by Clayton Christensen The only way to make healthcare more affordable is by driving care to lower cost venues (hospitals to outpatient to offices to homes) and provided by lower cost care-providers (specialists to primary care to midlevel providers to nurses to selfcare). The complexity and fragmentation of healthcare has exceeded the capability of human mind...
May 13th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1597 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: IT’S HUGE: design thinking made visual project via Joe Heinowski SPLASH: Population level Data-Based Healthcare by...
May 10th
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May 6th
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IT’S HUGE: design thinking made visual project via Joe Heinowski A visual document on the shift in what it means to DESIGN. Well done Humantific!  Some more great posts on Joe’s blog today.  Follow the title link.
May 5th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1577 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: IBM Almaden Institute 2010: Smarter Healthcare Through Modeling and Simulation In Search of a Simple Healthcare System The...
May 2nd
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The Future Electronic Medical Record →
(via carlosrizo) This recent article in Scientific American has an intersting perspective on a discussion that has been active on the Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin group.  How does the EMR meet the needs of different users (physicians, patients, regulators,…)?  What can we learn from the social transformation sweeping the internet and changing ourlives?
May 2nd
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In Search of a Simple Healthcare System In this TED talk, George Whitesides argues that simple things are:   Reliable/Predictable   Cheap   High Performance (=value/cost)   Easily used as building blocks of more complex things How can we simplify the healthcare system using that definition?  The talk offers one example.
May 2nd
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“You know that you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
May 2nd
April 2010
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IBM Almaden Institute 2010: Smarter Healthcare Through Modeling and Simulation Eleven million cancer patients.  Twenty five thousand in clinical trials (less than 0.3%).  The data (and potential learning) from 10,975,000 cancer patients is lost forever.  (Skip intro by going to 6 minutes and 45 seconds)
Apr 29th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1549 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Data-based Care and the Future Internet Design Principles: The Profound Lessons of Building Marshmallow Towers The Tale...
Apr 25th
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HBR: Disruptive Changes Are Coming to the Delivery... →
Nice trend summary analysis of the changes coming to healthcare delivery.  Care Designers needed.
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Design Principles: The Profound Lessons of Building Marshmallow Towers   Learn by doing   Work in parallel   Be first to market   Iterate   Respect resource constraints Some more lessons:   Don’t involve your CEO   If you have to involve the CEO, include the admin assistant   Convince HR to hire a few KG grads Learn more at the Marshmallow Challenge  
Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1514 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Survival Tips for Healthcare Designers Our World: Transform or Collapse Second Life Medical School is Open for Business ...
Apr 18th
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Waste: The Biggest Healthcare Design Opportunity David Cutler, Harvard economist and senior healthcare advisor to the Obama campaign, discusses the three biggest waste areas in healthcare: Workflow waste Insurance system waste (the focus of the recent policy action) Care waste Can the workflow and care waste areas be reframed as future design opportunities (or current design failures)?
Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Second Life Medical School is Open for Business The future of medical education?
Apr 13th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1471 members You can preview the new platform at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Survival Tips for Healthcare Designers Our World: Transform or Collapse Quote of the Week: “Do the difficult...
Apr 12th
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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they...”
– Lao Tzu
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 8th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1414 members You can preview the new platform at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Diabetes Mine 2010 Design Challenge A Three Minute Recipe to Starting a Movement Healthcare Innovation Moving...
Apr 4th
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Multimedia Books "Vooks" Are Here →
If you even suspected that the iPad is a transformative innovation checkout Vooks.  Hopefully the EMR equivalent isn’t far behind. For some books this will be a perk but for others it will take the content to a totally new experience space (follow the link and view the trailer).   
Apr 3rd
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Healthcare Innovation Moving into the Mainstream Maria Bartiromo talks to Arthur Caplan, Director of UPenn Center of Bioethics, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and Steven Nissen, Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.  A very broad spectrum of issues covered including informatics, genomics, wellness incentive programs,…
Apr 3rd
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A Three Minute Recipe to Starting a Movement The secret: don’t be afraid of appearing foolish and find similarly-minded others.
Apr 2nd
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...”
– Charles Bukowski (via joeheinowski)
Apr 1st
March 2010
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Mar 31st
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Network Update: Network membership is 1327 You can preview the new platform at www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: MAKING MEANING: doing what matters by Joe Heinowski Getting the Expriencing and Reflective Selves to Take Care of...
Mar 29th
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Ethnographic Study of Teen Diabetes Rachel Kerr presents an example of using ethnography to study the teen diabetic exprience.  In this second slide set, she presents some future technologies that could make easier for teens to live with diabetes. 
Mar 29th
“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to...”
– The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators (via hiten)
Mar 28th
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via quote-book) (via hiten)
Mar 28th
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The Pursuit of the Semantic Electronic Medical Record via Carlos Rizo carlosrizo: Every kid should watch this video about #open #data. Thanks to the participants for your bold vision.
Mar 26th
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Getting the Expriencing and Reflective Selves to Take Care of Themselves Daniel Kahneman (winner of Nobel prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics) talks about our two selves: the expriencing and the remembering (reflective).  Preventive and chronic care expriences are no fun for either self for the most part.  Is it surprising that the physical self isn’t getting...
Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Update: Group membership is 1188 New platform rollout delayed one week to 3/28/10. Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Oncology as Design: Cancer Care Through the Eyes of a Designer Clay Christensen’s Diagnosis: Healthcare Business Model Malpractice ...
Mar 22nd
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;...”
– Napoleon Hill
Mar 22nd