Month: December 2022

Cause And Effect – HCD Magazine

As the temperatures finally dip here in the Midwest and we have our first dusting of snow on the ground, I can’t help but be grateful to stay inside and enjoy some quiet moments—for a couple of good reasons.

It was a dizzying late summer/early fall, as our Healthcare Design team produced both our HCD Forum event in September and then just three weeks later our Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in October. In between the two, my family and I moved to a new house. (I’d say thankfully it’s just one mile from our previous house, but we’ve come to realize moving is a nightmare regardless of distance.)

And as we’ve settled into our new place and work to make it our own—and are repeatedly exasperated by the laundry list of to-dos that come with loving a century-old home—I’m reminded of why we ended up here in the first

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How crowdsourcing can advance precision medicine programs

Sarah Prezek is a lead associate and project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton. This blog was coauthored with Vishal Thovarai, lead scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Elaine Johanson, director of the health informatics staff under FDA’s Office of Data, Analytics, and Research, and program manager of precisionFDA.

Healthcare organizations understand the enormous potential of precision medicine. The current one-size-fits-all medical treatments deliver non-uniform results and often perform poorly for those who do not fit the “average patient” health profile.

By considering an individual’s specific health attributes, including genomic, environmental and lifestyle information, medical professionals can better tailor specific treatments that will deliver more successful outcomes.

What if, for example, doctors could better understand which COVID-19 vaccine would perform best on a particular patient based on their unique health profile, or gain insights into how to address the multitude of symptoms associated with long-term COVID?

Enter precision medicine. Advances

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Breaking Through 2022 Finalist: A.R.O.M.A.

Breaking Through 2022 Finalist

Now in its third installment, Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through is a conceptual design competition that encourages industry members to forget the traditional rules and restrictions of healthcare design to answer the challenges anticipated for the future of healthcare delivery. Four finalists made it to the finale that took place at the 2022 HCD Conference + Expo in San Antonio and presented their concepts to the audience during a keynote session.

Concept: A.R.O.M.A.
Team: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Team representatives: Erica Parker, product designer; Christopher Brause, product designer; and Pulkit Jain, senior data engineer

The premise: Most healthcare data is collected via slow, expensive research projects that are reactive to long-existing health concerns, meaning communities might experience a huge toll before anything is learned or action taken.

A.R.O.M.A. (Ambient Robotic Olfactory Monitoring Apparatus) proposes a preventive health tool that leverages sensors and artificial intelligence

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