Healthcare by Design: A Handbook for Changemakers - Hardcover

by Barry Katz (Author), Simon Mawer (Author), Future Medical Systems LLC (Author)

Healthcare by Design presents a practical, step-by-step guide for healthcare professionals seeking to address challenges such as regulation, safety, complexity, and culture, which affect patients and families, clinicians, and healthcare organizations.

Written by experienced design professionals with specific expertise in healthcare, the book draws upon recent developments in design theory and extensive industry experience. Understanding that design is as much about mindsets as methods, it provides practitioners with tools that will guide changemakers in ways to frame questions and identify opportunities, build teams, and create institutional support, and to scale their solutions throughout their respective organizations.

With the aid of illustrations, charts, worksheets, and case studies, Healthcare by Design brings the creative practice of designers into productive partnership with the data-driven, evidence-based world of healthcare. The book reveals how a designer's toolkit - ideation, design research, prototyping - can be used to solve problems with fresh eyes. As a result, Healthcare by Design will provide an invaluable guide to creating actionable and sustainable solutions to improve healthcare delivery.

Author Biography

Barry M. Katz is an emeritus professor of industrial and interaction design at the California College of the Arts.
Simon Mawer is the VP and chief of staff at Alio Medical.
Kara Harrington is an industrial designer and co-founder of Future Medical Systems.
Rob Lister is a designer in healthcare and co-founder of Future Medical Systems.
Schirin Lucie Richter is a national guest lecturer at CERC Stanford School of Medicine and co-founder of Future Medical Systems.
Svava María Atladóttir is the chief transformation officer and executive director at Landspítali National University Hospital of Iceland.