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Design-Led Engineering
The Power of Service Design: Unlocking Digital Success in Healthcare
Apr 23rd, 2024In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, digital transformation is essential for enhancing patient care, improving efficiency, and reducing costs. As organizations seek ways to improve their digital services to better serve their customers, its paramount to align them with your business objectives. However, navigating this journey can often feel like exploring uncharted waters. Enter Service […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Working Towards a Mature Accessibility Culture at Emids
Mar 7th, 2024As organizations recognize the importance of creating inclusive environments for those with disabilities, they may struggle with where to begin. At Emids, we used a systematic approach to evaluate our current state of accessibility and developed a strategic plan for improvement. By sharing our story, we hope to inspire other companies to work towards maturing […]
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Behavioral Design
Design-Led Engineering
HealthTech
Beginner’s Guide to Behavioral Design in HealthTech: Key Strategies and Tips
Jan 12th, 2024Behavior change is the new frontier in healthtech Globally, seven out of the 10 leading causes of death are a result of – or exacerbated by – unhealthy behaviors. This is not lost in healthtech where the market value of mHealth apps currently sits close to $50 billion and is expected to more than double […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Want Your Health App To Succeed? Consider These 8 Behavior-Change Design Tips
Apr 15th, 2021If you want your health app to flourish, keep these tips in mind. These techniques have an important goal. They’ll get people to use your app for a long period of time. And that’s important when users are trying to achieve results in their health journeys. We recently examined a few reasons why so many digital […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Why Digital Health Apps Fail And What You Can Do About It
Apr 8th, 2021The global mobile medical app market is exploding. It was worth $4.2 billion in 2020. In 2027, that number is expected to reach $20.7 billion. Even with all that growth, many digital health apps aren’t effective at creating positive health outcomes in the lives of people. Here’s why. The digital health industry is booming, but […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Engage Consumer: A New Foundation to Break the Mold
Apr 1st, 2021A decade ago, digital transformation in healthcare was focused on product features and large-scale transformation was often cost-prohibitive. Ideas were solved as engineering problems with technology tacked on, leading to wasteful spending and frequently failed initiatives. However, over the past two decades, growing consumerism and advances in technology have necessitated a shift in the status […]
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Design-Led Engineering
How Healthcare Ecosystem Maps Can Help You Prioritize Product Investment
Dec 2nd, 2018When developing a new healthcare product or service it can be difficult to prioritize which features should be included in the initial release – especially when we consider the complexity of healthcare systems, regulatory requirements, and the need to continuously improve medical care and health outcomes. Healthcare ecosystem mapping is a valuable tool for visualizing […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Healthcare Customer Journey Mapping
Oct 5th, 2018Healthcare customer journey maps often expose pain points and opportunities for improvement in many other areas along the entire user journey – not just as it relates to software applications, but how it relates to patient perceptions, satisfaction scores, and overall customer experience. Part of creating a ‘sticky’ digital health application that becomes a part […]
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Design-Led Engineering
4 Benefits of Using a Microservices Architecture in Digital and Connected Health Solutions
Aug 3rd, 2018Dive into what microservices is and discover the benefits of implementing a microservices architecture when it comes to accelerating your digital and connected health solution’s time to market. Healthcare is poised for significant change over the coming years as a result of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual assistants, sensors, and wearables. Significant investments […]
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Design Thinking
Design-Led Engineering
Design Thinking: A UX Framework for Healthcare Apps
Jan 18th, 2016UX design has a direct correlation to user adoption, time to complete a task, reduction in errors (thereby decreasing the risk to patient safety), a decrease in support calls, and an overall increase in user satisfaction. One of the most prominent issues facing clinicians and patients when trying to use a healthcare-related application is their […]