Results for: Author: jenniferjackson
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Community • Issue 017
UnitedHealth Group and Optum Emphasize the Care in Healthcare
As with virtually every other aspect of our lives, technology has revolutionized healthcare. Over the past decade, patients and healthcare providers began to interact through online and mobile devices.
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Community • Issue 017
Smarter Healthcare: Expanding Patient Engagement
The quest to improve American healthcare has traditionally focused on finding new drugs, producing more powerful diagnostic tools, and building medical centers with ever-expanding footprints. Despite these investments, costing 5 percent of GDP in 1960 and over 18 percent of GDP in 2018, the U.S. healthcare system is fundamentally broken, if not unsustainable.
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Community • Issue 017
Modern Midwifery: Designing Equitable Birthing Care
An Interview with Tiffany Townsend, Certified Professional Midwife, Doula, and Certified Lactation Counselor
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Community • Issue 017
Community as Medicine: Re-Designing Healthcare
I’m Dr. Elizabeth Markle. I’m a psychologist, an innovator and entrepreneur in the fields of human health and well-being, a scholar of Intentional Community (literally, community shaped by design), and Co-Founder of Open Source Wellness.
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Community • Issue 017
How will COVID-19 Change Healthcare Design?
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the overall resilience of our health system infrastructure to cope with increased demand. It has also brought the importance of design and the built environment to the forefront when considering emergency preparedness and infection control.
