This is a continuation of a personal project around the topic of a smarter healthcare system. Improving the Canadian healthcare to make it accessible and easy to navigate is an interest area of mine. As such, I like to look into what makes other healthcare systems work? what systems can we adopt? what is preventing or limiting us from incorporating tech-based or any other solutions? why is the process of change within healthcare so slow? and what are some of current issues that our healthcare system faces?
Unlike my other projects this is not as intensive process as I like to let my creative side out, finding an issue and then speculating ways of addressing it, often utilizing the seven steps of creative problem solving. This not only assists me in gaining further insights on wicked problems that I can address in my other projects but also let's me develop my own skills by trying to address these challenges that arise through mixed method techniques. Some get scrapped, some ideas are combined with other projects, some are presented to a wider audience, while others end up here in my portfolio as complete / incomplete ideas to come back to.
Overview:
When it comes to personal projects one of the frameworks I enjoy using is the 7 Universal Stages of Creative Problem Solving.
This project utilizes the framework through identifying some key issues within the Canadian health system and trying to address it through a tech-based solution, more specifically an app.
Result:
The final product was an app. Simple and efficient and can cater to larger demographics. We already carry so much information on our phones, this just seemed to be the natural progression we were going in.
The goal of this piece was more so focused on design and implementation of the 7 Universal Stage of Creative problem solving framework. I hope to pick up on the ideas and key issues I have found through this small project to help guide and build future projects and understanding of the healthcare system that I am a part of.
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