Tag Archives: Design Thinking

Health Care + Design in Singapore


Share/Bookmark Stepping off the plane into Singapore is like stepping into a new-era showcase of architecture, product, and service design. It’s closer to the feeling of being 14 years into the future rather than only 14 hours. Dig a little … Continue reading

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What if… you tried teaching design thinking to pre-med students?


Share/Bookmark It’s not unusual to have a handful of visitors drop by the Health Leads desks in Chicago for a day, looking to find out exactly what it is we do. To us as student leadership, it’s always nice to … Continue reading

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So, what is human-centered design?


Share/BookmarkSo often we at CFI are asked about how we work, what exactly is human-centered design, how do we use desing-thinking, etc… Recently, a nice blog was written after an interview with Dana Ragouzeous, one of the designer/researchers at the Center … Continue reading

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The Transform 2011 Symposium is happening NOW!


Share/Bookmark If you can’t be there, you don’t need to miss out. We will be uploading our videos as soon as we can. Imagine that more than 50 leaders in health care innovation were gathering to share their ideas and … Continue reading

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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

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