Design Innovation for Health and Medicine

Design Innovation for Health and Medicine offers an innovative approach for solving complex healthcare issues. In this book, three design experts examine a range of case studies to explain how design is used in health and medicine-exploring issues such as diverse patient needs, an ageing population and the impact of globalisation on disease. These case studies, along with high-profile industry projects conducted by the authors over the past decade, inform a novel framework for designing and implementing innovative solutions in this context. The book aims to assist designers, medical engineers, clinicians and researchers to shape the next era of healthcare.

Dr Erez Nusem lectures in the Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning at University of Sydney. His research emphasises the value of design in realising social and economic outcomes, with a focus on organisational change and design integration through longitudinal embedded projects. 

 

Dr Karla Straker is an Early Career Development Fellow in the Design Lab at University of Sydney. She is co-author of the books Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in the Digital Age (2018), and Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat (2018).

 

Professor Cara Wrigley is Director of the Design Innovation Research Group at University of Sydney, leading a team of researchers on projects spanning healthcare, science, business and defence. She is a prolific author and thought leader in the field.