Following up on Round 1
In Round 1 of co-design (see Virtual healthcare co-design (Round 1)), efforts focuses on identifying challenges, successes, barriers, and their contexts. Based on the stories and other artifacts from that co-design, subsequent iterations of co-design can expand to explore more specific areas of interest.
Personal Needs and Preferences, and their Contexts
Explore ways to help individuals articulate their personal needs and preferences, and the contexts in which these needs and preferences are relevant. For example:
- Language and communication
- Diet, medication, allergies
- Mobility
- Literacy / legibility
- Religious and cultural traditions, and personal beliefs
Software Tools
Subsequent co-design iterations can explore how software tools can alleviate challenges and barriers, and amplify successes identified by round 1 co-designers. Such software tools could include:
- Personal health monitoring
- Journaling
- Aggregating and analyzing personal data and contexts
- Portable personal needs and preferences
Processes
Subsequent co-design iterations can explore processes that created challenges and barriers identified by round 1 co-designers. Such processes could include:
- registering and booking online appointments
- attending online appointments
- client / patient intake
Additional Stakeholders
Later iterations of co-design can expand to include other stakeholders in the healthcare system / process such as practitioners, nurses, and other individuals who play a role in a circle of care.