Designing for Health: Interview with Minal Shah, MD [Podcast]
Intentional design and innovative technology are reshaping the healthcare landscape and streamlining clinical workflows, minimizing cognitive load, and improving the experience for both patients and care teams. A wide range of transformative strategies, including the redesign of clinical decision support alerts to reduce burnout, and the critical role of governance in sunsetting outdated digital tools. […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Brandy Parker [Podcast]
In today’s healthcare environment, building trust, ensuring accessibility, and understanding real-world patient behavior are critical to delivering effective care. Human-centered design offers a powerful framework to reimagine health experiences and move beyond surveys to direct observation of how people interact with care in context. This approach uncovers deeper insights that drive more inclusive, practical, and […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Christian Pulcini, MD [Podcast]
Navigating pediatric emergency care often presents unexpected complexities for both families and clinicians. Innovations rooted in human-centered care offer meaningful opportunities to reduce these challenges and improve outcomes. By integrating the rigor of implementation science with the empathy of human-centered design, professionals can bridge the persistent gap between evidence-based research and everyday clinical practice. This […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Randolph Bias [Podcast]
In today’s complex healthcare landscape, good design goes far beyond aesthetics as it’s fundamentally tied to safety, efficiency, and patient trust. Usability has evolved from its roots in human factors to become a vital component of modern, data-driven healthcare design. Poor UX can have serious consequences, from confusing patient portals to inefficient clinic workflows. By […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Karen Joswick [Podcast]
What differentiates today’s value-based care models is complexity and the stakes. With broader surgical episode coverage, tighter financial accountability, and heightened expectations for care coordination, success demands far more than clinical quality alone. Health systems must focus on standardizing care pathways, engaging surgeons with meaningful performance data, and ensuring patients are prepared not only for […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Kai Romero, MD [Podcast]
Innovation in today’s healthcare landscape is evolving rapidly, with new technologies frequently introduced to enhance clinical workflows and improve patient care. However, it’s critical to pause and reevaluate what meaningful innovation truly looks like. Often, reducing complexity, streamlining processes, eliminating redundancies, and focusing on human-centered design can be more impactful than layering on additional tools. […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Shreya Shah, MD [Podcast]
AI-driven documentation tools are advancing rapidly, now offering enhanced customization and greater responsiveness to clinician feedback, and enabling more efficient and tailored clinical use. As these technologies evolve, collaborative development with clinicians and deep understanding of clinical workflows become essential to ensure meaningful integration. While these tools hold great potential to streamline care delivery, their […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Stefanie Simmons, MD [Podcast]
Mental health stigma continues to be a major issue in healthcare, exacerbated by the overwhelming stress and burnout that healthcare workers face daily. Increasing burnout highlights the urgent need for change. It is crucial to advocate for transparency in medical licensing and to make mental health resources more accessible to healthcare professionals. By normalizing conversations […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Melissa Welch, MD [Podcast]
Access to high-quality, preventive, and primary care is essential to achieving better health outcomes, yet it remains out of reach for many individuals and communities. To address these disparities, healthcare systems must implement models that not only support providers but are also designed with the needs of patients and communities in mind. This includes leveraging […]
Designing for Health: Interview with Resa Lewiss, MD [Podcast]
In the fast-paced realm of emergency medicine, optimizing design and workflows is crucial for enhancing both patient care and operational efficiency. Prioritizing human-centered, effective solutions that benefit both patients and healthcare providers is key to improving outcomes. Equally important is the continuous collection of feedback from healthcare teams and patients during the design process, as […]