Health Design Thinking: An Innovative Approach in Public Health to Defining Problems and Finding Solutions.

ABSTRACT: Current trends in the United States health care landscape call for innovative and adaptive approaches to improve outcomes and reduce inefficiencies. Design Thinking is an innovative approach to problem-solving that leverages insights from the end-users of new products, services, and experiences in order to develop best-fit solutions that are rapidly prototyped and iteratively refined. When compared to traditional problem-solving methods in health care and other public health adjacent fields, Design Thinking leads to more successful and sustainable interventions. Design Thinking has facilitated improvements in patient, provider, and community satisfaction, and in public health, has increased efficiency and collaboration in intervention development. Given the promising nature of Design Think

SUBMITTER: Abookire S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484480 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature