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How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?

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 [...]

Collaborative Sensemaking & the Irreducible Burdens of Healthcare Information

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, [...]

Infrastructure lock-in, Innovation lock-out

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 [...]

Designing for Care

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 [...]

Google Plays Doctor

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 [...]

A Peter Jones Place

Dialogue - the search through meaning to understanding - is not common in our culture. Consider how people use the word to refer to very different communicative practices. Dialogue makes sense of different perspectives for a shared concern and enables wise action from that understanding.

Unlike the strategic goal of designed experiences, where we become spectators or at best players, dialogue enacts the real. Dialogic design is not reinventing the social; it is intentional social system design. It is inquiry, understanding, enactment - not technique. It means asking questions that help us discover what matters.

How can Design do better by doing good? How might we innovate a future with more meaning and less stuff? What are the emerging practices of new citizenship? Who are we educating ourselves to become?

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