Poster: Design Thinking in Health Care

19 Ways That Design Thinking Can Transform Healthcare

In our review of 6 trends nudging hospital design towards responsive healthcare, design thinking ominously featured in traces. From a lay perspective, the fact that the word design features in both hospital design and design thinking, may make our review appear grossly underwhelming. That’s until findings of a survey conducted by NEJM Catalyst titled: Care …

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With LINAC deal, Mediheal Hospital Group Stakes Claim in Kenya’s Growing Status as Medical Tourism Destination

Almost a decade ago, India Medical Times carried a report that painted a grim picture of the state of medical tourism in Kenya. 50,000 patients from Kenya , and rising on a y-to-y basis, were expected to visit India for medical therapy that year alone. A figure of one tenth of the cost of medical …

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Hospital Construction Standards in Kenya on the Spot as Leading Private Hospital Chain Caught in the Eye of the Storm

We recently looked at six hospital design trends that chart a path to responsive healthcare in the 21st century. Our dissection of complex constructs like lean design healthcare, UX design and evidence based design, informed us that consumer focus punctuated every one of the six trends. It is about time industry players placed shaping of …

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Questions As Merc’s Experimental Ebola Vaccine Heads To The Democratic Republic of Congo

With WHO and the Democratic Republic of Congo Ministry of Health reaching an agreement on the use of Merc’s experimental Ebola vaccine in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest battle with the hemorrhagic disease, the reaction across health and the press is understandably muted. Ebola in Africa There was Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia before …

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