{"id":109,"date":"2014-01-13T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:09:44","slug":"design-council-red-open-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/2014\/01\/13\/design-council-red-open-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Council RED – Open Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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source: www.designcouncil.info\/RED\/health<\/p>\n

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Abstract: <\/strong>This project made people, patients and front-line workers collaborate by brainstorming ideas, critiquing concepts, testing things out in context and suggesting improvements.<\/p>\n

The process of innovation consists in introducing patients, professionals and interested people’s collaboration in order to develop factors of innovation in the health field instead of the traditional “lab research-based” methods.<\/p>\n

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“By 2010, one in ten of us will have diabetes. […]
\nWe need to design new types of services that tap into people’s motivations and relate to their daily lives. […]
\nWorking with the Bolton Diabetes Network and Kent County Council over nine months in 2004\/5, RED designed and prototyped two new health services.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of the results of this process is called Me2, a system that supports and enables people to live well with type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

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“These services are designed to be co-created by people and professionals. They represent a shift in thinking in the way we approach preventative healthcare, and demonstrate how design can be used to put patient centred thinking into practice.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Economic \/ Industrial<\/p>\n

Growing importance of specific users -like patients suffering diabetes- joined as associations that, due to their numbers and their specific needs, can assure pharmaceutical companies a valuable market target and therefore prompt research in specific fields.<\/p>\n

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Political<\/p>\n

Public health institutions \u2014 as main actors in the field \u2014 is helping making such semi-public programs effective.<\/p>\n

Design \/ Art<\/p>\n

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Obstacle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political<\/p>\n

Public health institutions also have to actively contribute in spreading the concept in order to reach a wider effect.<\/p>\n

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Indication<\/strong><\/p>\n

Change in current innovation patterns<\/p>\n

Health is a field that until now has been driven by research and administration alone.
\nThis weak signal introduces how new factors like user-centred approach can contribute to the field. The focus seems to be placed more on ill persons and their needs than on the illness itself.<\/p>\n

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Sector specifics \/ cultural specifics<\/strong><\/p>\n

This weak signal is specific to the health sector.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet<\/p>\n

www.designcouncil.info\/mt\/RED\/health\/<\/a><\/p>\n

www.designcouncil.info\/mt\/RED\/health\/REDHealth01.mov<\/a><\/p>\n

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