Towards a convergent approach to the use of data in digital health design

Digital health is a vibrant and dynamic field, encompassing subsets such as mobile health, health information technology, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalised medicine. While digital health adoption has been markedly accelerated by the covid-19 pandemic (Inkster et al., 2020), an evolving body of research has focused...

The Impact of Perioperative Remote Patient Monitoring on Clinical Staff Workflows: Scoping Review

Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) interventions are being increasingly implemented in health care environments, given their benefits for different stakeholders. However, the effects of these interventions on the workflow of clinical staff are not always considered in RPM research and practice. Objective: This review explored how...

Finding the land, planting first seeds: lead user research in early stage design for intelligent ecosystems

This contribution explores the potential of lead user research for early-stage designing for intelligent ecosystems through a literature review and a single case study concerning a lead user research initiative on blood pressure monitoring. The results suggest advantages of executing lead user research in early-stage designing for intelligent...

Design research, eHealth, and the convergence revolution

The Quadruple Aim is a framework which prioritizes four 'aims', or dimensions of performance, for innovating in the healthcare domain, respectively: 1) enhancing the individual experience of care; 2) improving the work life of health care clinicians and staff; 3) improving the health of populations; and 4) reducing the per capita cost of care....

Three Approaches to Design Engineering in the Health Domain: A Systemic Perspective

This paper proposes a categorization of existing approaches to healthcare-related engineering design based on systems thinking principles. Three existing approaches to healthcare-related engineering design are isolated which contribute differently to health systems fundamental purposes and interconnections. The three approaches are labeled as ...

Effortless interactions for emergency care

This thesis presents a research and subsequent design intervention developed in the context of a Design for Interaction graduation assignment called Effortless interactions in Emergency Care. The design process was characterized by a strong focus on analysis, and in particular on user research, which included intense inquiry activities such as...