Very interesting talk from James Munro of Patient Opinion. Via Nick Marsh.

James Munro, Patient Opinion – Service Design Thinks 3 from Nick Marsh on Vimeo.

“What will the future of in-patient health care look like? Perhaps something like the “Patient Room 2020,” a project that NXT, Clemson University, and Birdtree Design are trying to bring to market in the next 10 years.” Read more in Fastcodesign.

A talk by Axel Unger, Head of the Health Practice, Europe, IDEO at the conference: Innovation in Healthcare Delivery.

The Role of Design in Service Innovation from IDEO on Vimeo.

The New York Times describes the health issues which some cities in the USA face with new migrant populations.  The article is enlightening and highlights the importance of understanding cultural norms and how communication is one of the keys to treatment.

If you have a spare 30 minutes go and listen to Mark Porter’s report on how telemedicine is transforming patients’ lives.  “Telemedicine is bringing benefits to both patients and doctors in Wales. Now that the neurologist no longer has a two and a half hour drive each way from Swansea to Aberystwyth he can run clinics for his patients in mid Wales every six weeks rather than every three months. Instead the neurologist, Dr Hinds, links up to the consulting room in Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth from his home base in Morriston Hospital in Swansea. With the latest technology he can see the patients and any scans and blood test results.”  Radio 4.

The New Media Medicine Group at MIT Media Lab exploring how technology can help individuals control their health.

New Media Medicine from nextlab on Vimeo.

Nesta have recently published a report ‘The Human Factor: How transforming healthcare to involve the public can save money and save lives.’ An excerpt from the foreword “This report examines the challenges faced by the National Health Service. It shows how radical new ways of innovating that give genuine power to frontline staff, patients and the public can reduce spending at the same time as increasing health and wellbeing.”    You can download the report from this page on Nesta’s website.

Nursing Times has published an article which looks are using ‘patient stories’ to help identify processes of hospital care which require quality or clinical redesign. The paper commented that patients and their families should be included in the ‘co-design’ of care.