product innovation – Design for Wellbeing

Wellbeing project in course

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:09:57 +0000

Using their achieved engineering skills to solve real challenges from real industrial companies is an important and inspiring challenge for the almost ready engineering students and a central part of the “In Real Life” mantra that BTH students practice. This years’ breed of Innovative product development students from three different programs have come together to address challenges from four different partner organizations.

SICAHT

The students working with SICAHT (http://www.sicaht.org) were given an open problem of how use of digital technologies could have a transformative impact on the healthcare sector. An important task for the students was to frame the problem and define for themselves what they wanted to change with their solution. The students targeted loneliness among elderly people, who may have been dealt a life changing experience such as losing a near relative, which significantly altered their social networks. Based on extensive user research they came up with the solution of the “Golden Experience”, which is a social network directly aimed at members being at least 65 who needs a nudge into more social activities and interactions.

The Golden Experience

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PSS Extreme Innovation 2015/16 completed

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Emergency room process improvement

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:12:32 +0000

A better tomorrow starts with a better healthcare. Where patients and doctors can help one another and make the hospital a place of mutual respect and top of the line, effective healthcare. Our system wants to do this and much more. With better patient flow and better background on every patient the hospital will be able to give a more secure healthcare and calmer environment.

In the course “MT2502, Creativity for Product- and Service Development” (Master programme in Mechanical Engineering) students Henning Bakke, Henrik Kvist and Isac Vidman decided to take a walk on a different side and go for a project on how to improve the emergency room process.

In their report “Patient Receiving – How can we make a system that will improve the efficiency of the patients receiving in the Emergency room for both patients and staff?” they target emergency rooms, that nowadays have long waits that can affect staff and patients in a bad way. Stress and malpractice can be a daily routine in which the patient have to return for new diagnostics. According to Svenska Dagbladet, many patients choose to turn to private healthcare, where they think they will get better treatment.

Case: Emergency room process improvement

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