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Tag Archives: Decision Making
Experimenting with Flying Cars
Share/Bookmark Recently, I spent a few hours with a neurologist and a neurology RN in a quiet room making 15 minute phone calls to patients. These patients were scheduled to be seen at the clinic a few weeks later. We … Continue reading
By Dana Ragouzeos |
Posted in Experience, Insights
Tagged behavior change, Center for Innovation, Decision Making, Design, Design, Design Research, Experimentation, Healthcare Delivery, Patient Empowerment
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The Artist, the Scientist and the Doctor in Each of Us
What is immensely hopeful is that the new science of morality offers a foundational, empirical, legitimizing rationale for health care designers to ply their trade.
Instead of being seen merely as artists whose skills are primarily aesthetic, or even simply decorative, the new science of morality connects design principles directly to the life and death matter of human healing. The affinity of aesthetics and morality, once celebrated mainly by poets, artists and philosophers, is now a proven scientific fact.
Viewed through the lens of this new perspective on human nature, designers should and must be regarded as full and active collaborators in the health care process. Continue reading
By Francesca Dickson |
Posted in Insights, Transform
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Decision Making, Moral, Moral Science, Morality, Morals, Science, symposium, Transform
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Thinking About Life, Death and Design at Transform 2010
More than anything, the recent two-day symposium at Mayo Clinic – “Transform 2010—Thinking Differently about Health Care” – got me reflecting about how we make moral decisions as human beings.
This question was to me the sparkling golden thread running through the symposium’s 42 brilliant presentations offered by clinicians, surgeons, nurses, computer programmers, human rights activists, inventors, social workers and many others who brought their mighty passion for healing to bear on a single stubborn problem – the conundrum of human suffering. Continue reading
By Francesca Dickson |
Posted in Transform
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Decision Making, Design, Design Thinking, Innovation, Moral, Morality, Morals, symposium, Transform
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More is not necessarily better.
Share/BookmarkThe article, First Physical, from the Archives of Internal Medicine about the President’s physical was passed along to me by Victor Montori. It offers such a fascinating window into the issues facing healthcare delivery reform. I could quote the whole article … Continue reading
By maggie breslin |
Posted in Innovation
Tagged Center for Innovation, CFI, Decision Making, Design, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Delivery, President
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