Strategic design is becoming a key priority as healthcare providers realize compelling correlations between better design and increased patient satisfaction as well as other key metrics. No longer an ...

Creative-problem solving solutions, encapsulated in ‘design thinking’ methodology in which patient-centered approach to innovation of MCS systems necessitates a participatory co-design process that ...

One quandary that teaching hospitals in particular face is how to create a pathway to innovation. Although some institutions have approached this challenge by starting a fund to invest in healthcare ...

The evolution of clinical trials shows that although much has changed, several things remain the same. When a patient expresses interest in a trial, they complete an informed consent process, and ...

Editor's Note: In a recent Health Affairs essay titled “What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist,” Don Berwick surveyed the debate in the health policy community over how the ...