Meeting
Abstract Number: 9
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: The rapidly changing and increasingly complex hospitalist work environment has placed new focus on provider burnout and resilience. As hospitalist leaders seek tools to address these issues, the design thinking process offers a novel user-centered approach. Initially developed in the tech industry, design thinking moves quickly and iteratively through five stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and […]
Abstract Number: 176
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Practical and financial pressures have placed a renewed focus on improving the human experience of healthcare from both the patient and provider perspective. Despite this, aligning patients and interdisciplinary providers around meaningful experience improvement in the inpatient setting remains elusive. We sought to develop an innovative interdisciplinary design process for experience improvement on a […]