Arhealth: Enabling wellness as a road to health with service design

The COVID-19 health crisis at the beginning of 2020 saw a dramatic number of adaptations to health systems around the world. One of these adaptations was the accelerated shift towards e-health solutions. This rise happened because of the inability of the medical system to serve patients of non-respiratory related illnesses during the pandemic....

A Roadmap towards Touchless Interaction during Image-guided Therapy: Enhancing workflow in complex medical procedures through strategic technology implementation

Philips is the global leader in Image-Guided Therapy (IGT). This medical specialization provides integrated solutions that allow for minimally invasive medical procedures. A specialized medical team consisting of multiple stakeholders works closely with Philips's newest technological devices and systems during these interventions. These complex...

Designing the road to the implementation of Heart for Health's eHealth solution at general practitioners: formulating advice for future development

The Dutch healthcare system is currently under a lot of stress. Contemporary social, technological, economic and political trends demonstrate an emerging pressure on both primary and secondary care. The trend with the most profound impact, is the growing amount of chronically ill patients, causing a high pressure on the workforce and on limited...

Insight.me: Enabling a collaborative use of healthcare data

This thesis presents research on data and healthcare and proposes a design vision that enables collaborative use of self-tracked data. This work was developed within the Cardiolab as a graduation work in Strategic Product Design. It aimed to identify the needs and aspirations of practitioners and patients and, then, embody the findings on a...