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Fully Inclusive Gender Equity: A Resource Guide
Fully Inclusive Gender Equity: A Resource Guide

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Design Thinking in Healthcare

DESIGN THINKING IN HEALTHCARE

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DESIGN THINKING

Design Thinking is a design style that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It’s extremely useful in confronting complex problems that are ill-defined or unknown.

 
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PROBLEM SOLVING with design thinking:

Design thinking solves problems by:

  • Understanding the human needs involved

  • Constructing the problem in human-centric ways

  • Creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and

  • Adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.

 
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How Does Design Thinking Work In Healthcare?

Design Thinking in Patient Care

Applying design thinking to the patient care process, allows you to uncover ways in which care goes beyond the treatment.

Implementing a customer empathy map will help you understand your patient’s pain, concerns, fears and go beyond the clinical treatment.

Design Thinking in Clinical Experience

Think of your most recent waiting experience. Patients could potentially spend a large amount of time in waiting rooms, sometimes waiting to be treated and other times waiting to see the doctor.

Design thinking may bring forth innovative ways of helping patients feel comfortable and making their experience bearable. You can start by asking questions and understanding their mindset. If you can not reduce the wait time, think of ways to utilize it.

 

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Fully Inclusive Gender Equity: A Resource Guide

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This Resource Guide is a living document to provoke discussion, inspire questions, increase knowledge and understanding, and connect us to powerful allies in this space. We hope that you will disseminate the guide, with attribution, through your own networks, and reach out to add to this growing compendium.

 

DOWNLOAD the 2021 “Resource Guide for Women and Institutions Seeking Fully Inclusive Gender Equality” BELOW:

Contact us with questions regarding this resource guide and with contributions for this resource guide at info@carolemmottfoundation.org

 

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Remote Patient Monitoring

HOW DOES REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING WORK?

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REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) can be used to enable monitoring of patients in their home, which increases their access to care and decrease healthcare costs.

 
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DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS

RPM devices, such as scales, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure cuffs, can be connected to patients’ tablets or smartphones via Bluetooth. Wi-Fi is normally used to transmit readings back to the hospital for doctor review.

 
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CALL CENTERS

Nurses who are working within the medical facility's call center can immediately contact the patient as metrics are reported from the patients RPM devices in real time. This approach can also help patients avoid re-hospitalization by providing proper care as a preventive measure and as it is needed.

 

Medical Compliance

Medical compliance happens in real time. For example, there are tools to help track the vital signs of organ transplant recipients after surgery once they are released from the hospital or patients can wear a patch that detects when they take their medications while giving notifications as needed.

RPM has helped reduce hospital admissions by 38%

Patient satisfaction has increased 25% due to RPM.

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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON IMPLEMENTATION

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It’s safe to say at this point that there is no aspect of our collective lives that has not been impacted by COVID-19. Schools are closed and work methods as we know them have drastically changed. We’re being ordered to stay in our homes by local officials and droves of people are overwhelming the healthcare system across the globe with this novel strain of the virus. No industry seems to be untouched, but healthcare is certainly taking the brunt. While those on the frontlines fight to stay well and equipped to deal with this medical crisis, administrators and health infrastructure staff are scrambling to provide timely support and still execute on planned initiatives to benefit providers and patients. It is still possible to follow through with planned healthcare IT projects, but it’s worth acknowledging how Epic implementation efforts could be impacted by COVID-19…and to plan accordingly.