Design Frameworks for Health Facilities

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The Design Frameworks for Health Facilities paper was presented at the Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference, hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia October 2010.    

Design Frameworks is an innovative online tool to gather resources from a cross-disciplinary field of problem solvers.

The tool is a model for professionals to inform their creative problem solving of systemic events in social, economic and environmental complexity.

Design Frameworks was developed by Alan Ricks and Michael P. Murphy Jr., Executive Director, MASS Design Group. 

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Collaborative Healthcare: advancing sustainable knowledge systems for service delivery

My daughter and I visited Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center last July. Our visit was prompted at the recommendation of Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT, to learn more about the advancing practice of collaborative medicine in health care service delivery for children.

(Peter Gloor's research focuses on COINs - collaborative innovation networks.The study of COINs, or swarm creativity, offers us a deeper understanding of how to share information in large systems to advance knowledge aquisition by all participants and address distribution of that knowledge at scale. Be sure to visit and participate in the COINs global community here.)

With Alice's photos, we posted the slide show above. As you're watching, listen to Dr. Margolis's interview describing the value networks, collaboration and community bring to advance medical innovation and health care service, posted to I-Open and here to this blog.

We'd like to thank Dr. Margolis for generously participating in the New York, New England, New Jersey, Cincinnati July 2009 interview trip, co-sponsored by The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open). We'll be posting additional interviews from our trip to this blog and to I-Open in the upcoming weeks.

The photo set for the July trip is posted to Flickr. We invite you to visit more photos by Alice Merkel here.

Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

Interview: Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. talks about his work in collaborative medicine as Co-Director of the The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He shares an overview of his efforts over the last twenty years to improve quality systems health care delivery for children.

Dr. Margolis discusses health care systems, and the value strengthening social network practice, mapping, and analysis bring to improving innovative practices and knowledge sharing. His research is discovering the value of networks, collaboration, communication and community to advance medical innovation and health care service amongst large networks of health care center staff, patients, and their families.

By discovering new collaborative practices, people and institutions can advance new forms of health care quickly.

As you listen to this interview [00:29:46] be sure to watch the slide show and videos on Flickr. Photos by Alice Merkel.

Related post at I-Open: Interview: Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA