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Design thinking for health care

“By fostering simple innovations through design thinking in hospitals, we can tackle many challenges in the hospital in new ways, saving both dollars and lives.”

As a designer and professional patient, I couldn’t be more thrilled to read this piece by Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran, a Toronto-based pediatrician. Dr. Kalaichandran illustrates several examples of design thinking being successfully used in various hospital settings from a patient’s pain level assessment to trauma teams in emergency rooms. Check out the full piece here.

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design health patient care sports

Why we should all hack medicine (on pointe!)

I was incredibly inspired by my colleague Jose Colucci‘s daughter, Lina Colucci, and her TEDx Brussels performance/talk about hacking medicine. As someone who has worn painful pointe shoes (and still have the awful feet to prove it), taken multiple medicines, and used a breast pump, I found quite a lot to empathize with here. I know you will too.

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Twitter goodness

IÂ’ll keep this one short because this story is just so awesomely succinct (and a bit older, but every time I read it I smile).

@ChrisStrouth tweeted “sh*t, I need a kidney” and then got one. Read more here = stories.twitter.com/chris_strouth

Many other great Twitter stories here = stories.twitter.com