Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation
The Harvard Business Review website posted an article on an alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide: human-centered design and co-creation. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. One example of this is The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) which brings together multi-disciplinary teams of healthcare and non-healthcare professionals to co-design novel solutions to US and global health challenges through hack-a-thons, awards programs, and business acceleration activities. CAMTech is an open innovation platform now involving a network of over 4,300 engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and designers from over 700 organizations. To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges.
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