May Mallahzadeh ⏤ 2024
Journey Through Research
This page provides additional context to the research. Each item listed below is an article.
Healthcare through a designer's lens
Outlines the author's journey from discovering a passion for healthcare design to describing the journey during her academic program.
Fundamental terms and concepts
Explains the author's choice to present her research on a website to engage a broader audience, foster dialogue, and make research topics accessible.
Listening to patients: a journey towards inclusive healthcare
Explores using social media insights from chronic condition patients to improve healthcare and engage stakeholders.
How can we heal our broken healthcare system?
Explores healthcare evolution, emphasizing patient and caregiver engagement and involving them as co-creators in healthcare improvements.
Collective dreaming in healthcare: from information to inspiration
Highlighting the need for combining evidence-based and exploratory design research to address unmet needs and foster innovation.
From healthcare system to healthcare culture
Explains the healthcare system's complexity and emphasizes the need for a patient-centered approach that values diverse expertise and collaboration among patients, providers, and researchers.
How patients, providers, and researchers can thrive together
Emphasizing the need for better communication and collaboration among these groups to improve healthcare outcomes and patient experiences.
Toward patient-led innovation
Highlighting the need for patient-centered design, patient-driven innovation, and patient-led research to improve outcomes.
Public access to data
Explaining the need for better public access to empower informed health decisions and combat misinformation.
Right questions, real implementation
Researching irrelevant questions and rarely implementing patient involvement frameworks lead to unmet patient needs.
Learning health network
Defining the Learning Health Network (LHN), its potential, and current implementations.
Recruitment is hard
Discussing recruitment challenges and offering tips and resources for effectively recruiting patients and researchers.
Power of stories
Exploring the power of story-sharing and its potential to inform and enhance healthcare delivery.