In a world of evidence-based guidelines, reams of patient education material, penalties for readmissions, and board rooms full of red and green report cards, many of us quietly wonder… Are we missing something? Because… it just doesn’t feel right.
In this TED video, Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, raises the question: “Are we in control of our decisions?”
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Can games help us prevent or cure disease? Improve patient compliance? Make a safer health environment? Or improve medical education?
In this TED MED talk, Steve Cole from HopeLab discusses cancer therapy and the game Remission. Watch this video and explore the role of play and games in health innovation.
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Healthcare has its own lexicon, its own jargon, and its own set of metaphors. This language we use, the words we choose, the manner in which we forge them into sentences, and the metaphors we use to sculpt ideas can all have a profound impact on innovation in the healthcare space… for better or for worse.
Watch this James Geary video from the TED talks:
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Sometimes, in order to find the best solutions, we need to look no further than nature itself. Researchers from a variety of disciplines have tapped into this idea and are busy at work studying sharks.
Mimicking sharks seems only natural when you consider the marvel of their design. With a hydrodynamic shape, water moves smoothly over the
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When something has been around for decades and remains virtually unchanged, one of two things holds true…
(a) It is so well-designed, it is not in need of change, or
(b) It is in need of change and is therefore, ripe for innovation.
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To Better Is Human™… That is the mantra with which Dr. Fairbanks leads MedStar Health’s human factors engineering efforts. Some may find despair in disaster. But a strong urge within all of us seeks the opportunity in it. Watch this intriguing video on what we can learn from the BP oil disaster.
In this 30 minute video series from MI2′s Innovations In… Patient Safety Forum, Dr. Terry Fairbanks explores the similarities in the culture of BP prior to the oil disaster of 2010 and the “House of Medicine”.
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