Design Future Health
design thinking in health technology education
The GREAT Network organizes Basic and Intensive Courses inspiring practical applications tailored to boost ideas in innovating novel solutions for various healthcare challenges of today.
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Solutions for Healthcare and Life Science
One of the network collaborators is the Hospital District of Southwest Finland. The aim is to find ways to improve patient care and working conditions of healthcare professionals by innovating working solutions that efficiently address empirical challenges.
The GREAT Network
The Design Future Health (GREAT) project is a network of Nordic and Baltic Higher Educational Institutions namely – Universities of Oslo, South-Eastern Norway, Tartu, Turku, Åbo Akademi and Centre for Digital Life Norway. The network builds on a close research collaboration between the network partners, which advocates for novel solutions to tackle the challenges in commercializing academic and clinical discoveries.
Creating a Novel Culture of Innovation
The network introduces Design Thinking to promote a new culture of innovative thinking and applying it in health technology innovations. The education offered by the GREAT Network is based on the design thinking process created by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, the so called d.school.
The Art & Science of Design Thinking
Design Thinking has existed since the 1960’s; yet it has been used relatively little in health education. Medical schools and health education programmes have only recently started to explore Design Thinking possibilities in education. The network aims to stand in the forefront of the leading edge of recent pedagogical development and implement new learning tools, fostering creative minds to make a difference that matters.
