I just wrote and published this article called 'Designing the Future: An Innovation Workshop for Future Medical Professionals'. The Medical Entrepreneurship Club at SUNY Downstate hosted this innovation workshop yesterday! Read about what we did!!
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The first step to creating a new reality is dreaming it.

“Healthcare should be a beautiful experience for patients, caregivers, and clinicians.” -Bon Ku, MD, MPP & Ellen Lupton

A CT scanner on wheels? That’s the dream of Bon Ku, a former Jefferson Health physician, who envisions a mobile health clinic that could help patients in rural and urban areas. trib.al/00VRrGY

NEW: ARPA-H just launched a program to provide advanced hospital-level care to ALL parts of the country.

The agency is tackling this challenge with PARADIGM, a program to improve rural health care access!

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'What if we could deliver advanced hospital-level care to every rural county in America?'

Through the new PARADIGM program, ARPA-H aims to develop a mobile platform to deliver many different types of care. Bon Ku, MD, MPP ARPA-HDirector

Details: arpa-h.gov/research-and-f…

PARADIGM’s impact has the potential to resonate far beyond the boundaries of a map, reaching into the lives and well-being of countless individuals across the nation!

GOING THE DISTANCE: PARADIGM is on a mission to bring health care to rural communities far and wide. So, get ready for care to come closer to home! arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…

HEROES will bring together major players in the health care ecosystem — insurers, investors, providers, and most importantly, patients — to completely change the health care paradigm so that future innovations will have a better chance to be sustained in the real world.

Through THEA, we’re seeking to develop the next breakthroughs in transplantation, preservation, and neuroscience to address the challenge: ‘What if we could restore vision to those who are blind?’

Simon Hodes, General Practitioner Selvaseelan Selvarajah Atul Gawande Uni of Birmingham NB Medical Sophie Park Great thread!

From a practical perspective on how to innovate in healthcare, Bon Ku, MD, MPP and Ellen Lupton’s Health Design Thinking is great.

Christabel Pankhurst Institute UoM NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme

Design thinking can improve the experiences, devices, services and spaces of healthcare. Bon Ku, MD, MPP of the Health Design Lab Thomas Jefferson University shares 5 reasons why with #AspenIdeasHealth ➡️ bit.ly/40YapQQ

Last year in The Power of Design, we explored how design practices are key drivers of research and innovation in our first session with Natsai Audrey Chieza, John Cary, Bon Ku, MD, MPP, Miho Mazereeuw MIT UrbanRISKLab and Sarah Williams. See the full recording on YT: buff.ly/3QOzURq

Exciting to see THE plug 🔌 in action helping to power innovation in healthcare! It was designed and built by a rockstar team Thomas Jefferson University #HealthDesignLab ! Because we never say no to a crazy idea that just might work!

Example of hostile architecture: the Camden bench

Roman Mars 99 Percent Invisible
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Check out my conversation with the amazing Liz Salmi!

We talk about about patients co-designing research, having immediate access to our own medical records & the need for a chief patient information officer.

@MyOpenNotes
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This week on Design Lab Podcast, @bonku talks with Liz Salmi, #BTSM organizer and strategist at @MyOpenNotes, about bringing punk rock into healthcare, having immediate access to our own medical records, and co-designing research with patients. bit.ly/designlabpod

ICYM Bon Ku, MD, MPP Mike Natter, MD and LaShonda Robertson, RN for our special illustrated (by Mike Natter, MD 😁) presentation of Design Lab: Voices from the Front Lines
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