Engineering value-effective healthcare solutions: a systems design perspective

François Patou, Anja Maier

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Abstract

Our modern healthcare systems commonly face an important dilemma. While they depend on innovation to provide continuously greater healthcare value, they also struggle financially with the burden of adopting a continuous flow of new products and services. Although several disruptive healthcare models, i.e. decentralised, personalised, pervasive, connected, and stratified, promise to relieve some of this tension, they do not per se guarantee optimal value generation. We argue that systems thinking and engineering design can remedy this limitation. We support this claim by making the case of Design for Evolvability and by elaborating on two examples: MRI systems and Point-of-Care in-vitro diagnostics solutions. We specifically argue that Design for Evolvability can realign the agendas of various healthcare stakeholders, serving both individual and national interests. We finally acknowledge the limitations of current engineering design practices and call for new theoretical and empirical research initiatives taking a systems perspective on healthcare product and service design.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17), Vol. 3
Subtitle of host publicationProduct, Services and Systems Design
EditorsAnja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
Place of PublicationGlasgow
Pages31-40
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2017
Event21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17) - The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada., Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 21 Aug 201725 Aug 2017
Conference number: 21
http://iced17.org/

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design
PublisherThe Design Society
Volume3
ISSN (Print)2220-4342

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17)
Abbreviated titleICED17
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period21/08/1725/08/17
Internet address

Keywords

  • design for X (DfX)
  • large-scale engineering systems
  • biomedical design
  • innovation
  • healthcare

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