Pooja, Your inspiration will come from outside the Health industry. 90% of US Healthcare is 10 years behind the technology and design curve... and backwards (i.e. not patient-centric).
Giant issue in the HC-space: there is zero data interoperability (for example no CCD/CCR/C32 validation or data exchange across organizations). This is by design (for vendor lock-in)... and it kills any chance for digital data sharing across the globe. Follow a few nurses, doctors, and (most importantly) patients around in their everyday hospital activities. This will be a HUGE eye-opener. Books to peruse: Understanding HealthCare, Internal Bleeding, The End of Medicine, Set Phasers on Stun (among many reads). Podcasts: Life and Death in the USA, Dr Mike Magee's podcasts Grady - Spot on about MS CUI. Good idea but the execution is laughable. There are several open source health efforts (like Vista, openEHR, Tolven, etc) that need a monster amount of Design help. Pooja - if you need assistance, shoot me an email. -Juhan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21932 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
