Items Tagged ‘Center for Innovation’
April 15, 2010
Mayo Clinic’s goal: A healthcare system that fits a town
Last winter, as the country bickered over death panels, Tea Parties and socialized medicine, a woman quietly observed life in Austin, Minnesota. She visited community centers, hung out with pastors and interviewed workers at Hormel, Austin’s main employer and maker of Spam. What that cultural anthropologist at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation found is […]
December 15, 2009
Inside the Design Thinking Process
The Aspen Design Summit brought together 60 top executives to apply design thinking to large social problems… The 64 invited attendees…rolled up their sleeves and got to work. Divided into five groups, each team was tasked with coming up with a solution to a specific problem. To try to prevent participants from being creative […]
Tags: Center for Innovation
October 30, 2009
Doctor’s office design makes a difference
U.S. researchers suggest room design can improve the quality of a visit to the physician’s office. The randomized trial, published in Health Environments Research and Design Journal, found physicians felt they were able to share more information and patients felt they had better access to information in an experimental office design in which the […]
October 28, 2009
Room Design Can Enhance Patient Care
The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of a visit to the physician’s office. A collaborative research study developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which a consultation room designed to support present-day clinical encounters could affect the consultation between patients and clinicians. […]
Tags: Center for Innovation, room design
October 26, 2009
Health By Design–Notes From the GE HealthCare Conference
GE’s Health By Design conference in NYC generated a significant number of insights into the shape of health care reform that go far beyond what is being discussed in Washington DC… Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, Director of the Center for Innovation & SPARC Lab, Mayo Clinic. SPARC has 8 designers embedded in the core business—the […]
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October 6, 2009
It’s a scary time to be a new graduate. But some seem more optimistic than others. Around the world, graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master’s programs that integrate design, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in “design thinking.” Twenty-One People Who Will Change Business – slide show features: Caroline Lu, Designer/researcher, SPARC Design […]
Tags: Center for Innovation, SPARC