PEDS219

How might we design a product or service that helps each person to navigate the system to meet their health needs? This course aims to blend the best methods of co-design with key insights from digital product design and foundational AI to create novel solutions to population-health challenges, working alongside people from communities that have been historically underserved. Responsive to real-world challenges from a healthcare partner, students will work with patients with chronic illness (and their caregivers) to co-design solutions that reimagine the future of primary care. To understand these challenges, we will explore the intersections among epidemiology of chronic illness, fiscal and policy constraints, and social well-being. We will place a special emphasis on the practical challenge of delivering the right care, at the right place and time. Stakeholders will include clinicians, community experts, technologists and payers. Students will work in teams to design, prototype and test concepts that reflect the worlds in which their co-design partners live and work, all with an eye to helping our healthcare system work better for them.