Thomas Goetz in Wired Magazine highlights Alexandra Carmichael and her decision tree for health decisions, along with 2 other scenarios. Alexandra is the founder of the CureTogether open source health research community. CureTogether is an innovative service that facilitates finding effective ways to address health concerns by active participation by people living with certain conditions, . . . → Read More: How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?
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Are EHRs (Electronic Health Records) Error Inducing Machines? Thanks to Brady Anderson on the Design for Care community site who alerted us to Dr. Christine Sinsky’s “eNirvana – Are we There Yet?” I believe we are “not yet there.” As long as the Medicare specification known as “meaningful use “criteria ignores design, usability, and . . . → Read More: Collaborative Sensemaking & the Irreducible Burdens of Healthcare Information Experienced systems and design professionals have increasingly raised their concern for the poor design of eHealth Records (EMR, EHR) systems for the last couple of years. The rapid increase in adoption and deployment, spurred by US government stimulus spending, has pushed vendors to roll systems to market in unrepentant haste. With interaction design that would make . . . → Read More: Infrastructure lock-in, Innovation lock-out Reposted from the Rosenfeld book site / author blog. I am inviting experienced designers (and professionals and administrators) to review and advise the course of a new book, Design for Care. Interested and interesting people can register on the book’s community site at designforcare.com. Healthcare is a sector of complex interconnected systems. If we act only on the . . . → Read More: Designing for Care And Microsoft also wants your health records as well. The New York Times reports on the NEJM article warning about the entrants of mega-players GOOG and MSFT as purveyors of your private healthcare information. These are not altruistic enterprises – they have to turn a profit on this somehow. So it does make one wonder about . . . → Read More: Google Plays Doctor |
Blogs have evolved into several popular forms - mine is an old-school online publication of written works in progress. While the topics range widely, they reveal my interest in understanding the emerging social meaning of technology in use, finding better ways of designing for knowledge and organizational practices, and progressive interpretations of systemic innovation. The title is meaningful - I see design processes as dialogic. Not just iterative, but design as languaging, both verbal & visual. We co-create & co-interpret in shared languages. A dialogic orientation requires we discover and appreciate the perspectives of all participants in a socio-technical system. Dialogue is performative designing - it requires both discipline and improvisation, to enable emergence of new meaning in human systems. We hold these dialogues every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Realize that dialogue has occurred when speaking leads to a new state of mutual understanding, and right action arises. This is also the purpose of designing. |
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