How Designers Are Transforming Healthcare

This is an open access book.

How Designers are Transforming Healthcare is a bold manifesto for change, demonstrating the value of a strategic design-led approach. Drawing on a rich array of real-world projects, this book illustrates how designers, in collaboration with clinicians and consumers, are co-creating transformative change across healthcare environments, products, services, and systems.

1 Changemakers: Designers and Healthcare. - Part I Participatory Human Centred Co-Design. - 2 Virtual Multi-Clinician Care for Diabetes: the Virtual Outpatient Integration for Chronic Disease (VOICeD) telehealth project. - 3 Cancer Wellness: Co-creating a new virtual service delivery model. - 4 Equitable Access to Stroke Care: Visualising systems of care for stroke patients. - Part II Design Thinking. - 5 It takes a village' : Co-designing family-centred care in a paediatric intensive care unit. - 6 NICU mum to PICU researcher: A reflection on place, people and the power of shared experience. . - 7 Bringing the university to the hospital: QUT Design Internships at the Queensland Childrens Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. - 8 Designing out-procedural pain: the value of a rapid onehour co-design sprint. - 9 Co-designing Design Thinking Workshops 10 Introducing Design Thinking for Senior Health Professionals. - Part III Prototyping. - 11 More than a cute thing to do. - Part IV Design Doing. - 12 Parroting playful places: Designing wayfinding for the Queensland Children s Hospital. - 13 Whose heartbeat is that? : An animation approach to promoting cultural safety in healthcare. - 14 Co-designing access to just healthcare for all consumers. - 15 Graphics and Icons for healthcare with a focus on cultural appropriateness, diversity and inclusion. - 16 Agency and Access: Redesigning the prison health request process. - Part V Design Visioning 17 Co-designing the future: Technology-enabled care in regional communities. - 18 Connecting rehabilitation teams: A design-led, arts-based and appreciative inquiry inspired approach to organizational change in healthcare. - 19 Emergency Room Exits and Entrances. - 20 Design as a catalyst for `systemic designability : Reflecting on the origins of HEAL and its vital role in transforming healthcare in Queensland.