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This post is part of the Biodesign’s Jugaad series following a group of Stanford Biodesign fellows from India. (Jugaad is a Hindi word that means an inexpensive, innovative solution.) The...

This post is part of the Biodesign’s Jugaad series following a group of Stanford Biodesign fellows from India. (Jugaad is a Hindi word that means an inexpensive, innovative solution.) The...

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Innovating for kids’ health: More from first day of Stanford’s Childx

...make MRI exams faster and more effective for children. Garner spoke about how scientific findings can unlock thinking about difficult problems, while Vasanawala gave practical tips about innovating, which included...

...make MRI exams faster and more effective for children. Garner spoke about how scientific findings can unlock thinking about difficult problems, while Vasanawala gave practical tips about innovating, which included...

...year for her to adjust. She believed them, but she didn't fully understand what they meant until she took a design thinking class during her freshman year at Stanford. She...

...year for her to adjust. She believed them, but she didn't fully understand what they meant until she took a design thinking class during her freshman year at Stanford. She...

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...my knee, kick it out a little bit..." "This is really amazing," Fuller agrees. "It gives me the chills just thinking about it. This is the kind of knowledge and...

...my knee, kick it out a little bit..." "This is really amazing," Fuller agrees. "It gives me the chills just thinking about it. This is the kind of knowledge and...

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...interaction between play and design thinking. He asserts that the opposite of play is not work, but boredom. Play is not frivolity, but a certain set of behaviors that can...

...interaction between play and design thinking. He asserts that the opposite of play is not work, but boredom. Play is not frivolity, but a certain set of behaviors that can...

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Stanford alumni aim to redesign the breast pump

...similar for many of today's busy, mobile moms. Meanwhile, Guthrie was at Stanford developing her passion for designing for women, Delzer recounts. "A lot of things that have been designed...

...similar for many of today's busy, mobile moms. Meanwhile, Guthrie was at Stanford developing her passion for designing for women, Delzer recounts. "A lot of things that have been designed...

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Operation Heart: Engaging patients in caring for patients

...are you, and you, and you. Sarah E. Kucharski is a consultant, public speaker and advocate fostering the patient voice in medicine through design thinking for innovation and social media....

...are you, and you, and you. Sarah E. Kucharski is a consultant, public speaker and advocate fostering the patient voice in medicine through design thinking for innovation and social media....

...the achievements do little to ensure that the resulting research findings are accurate. Stanford study-design expert John Ioannidis, MD, DSci, has repeatedly pointed out serious flaws in much published research...

...the achievements do little to ensure that the resulting research findings are accurate. Stanford study-design expert John Ioannidis, MD, DSci, has repeatedly pointed out serious flaws in much published research...

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...changing the culture of health care.” In addition to continuing to build community, the Medicine X Academy will aim to use technology, the principles of design thinking, and a model...

...changing the culture of health care.” In addition to continuing to build community, the Medicine X Academy will aim to use technology, the principles of design thinking, and a model...

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...drop of a liquid onto a surface. This low-cost device can be used to test water quality, to provide affordable medical diagnostic tests, or to design chemistry experiments in schools....

...drop of a liquid onto a surface. This low-cost device can be used to test water quality, to provide affordable medical diagnostic tests, or to design chemistry experiments in schools....

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...and Empower Me, an online course that focuses on patient-engagement design, noted that it's academic leaders' job to be "forward-thinking" for the students "so they're so they’re not behind" when...

...and Empower Me, an online course that focuses on patient-engagement design, noted that it's academic leaders' job to be "forward-thinking" for the students "so they're so they’re not behind" when...

...trains researchers, clinicians and engineers to be medical-technology innovators during its year-long fellowship. Fellows learn the Biodesign Process, which could be likened to design thinking for health care. On teams...

...trains researchers, clinicians and engineers to be medical-technology innovators during its year-long fellowship. Fellows learn the Biodesign Process, which could be likened to design thinking for health care. On teams...

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Countdown to Medicine X: How to engage with the "no smartphone" patient

...provide feedback to design these programs. Other clinics are beginning to use the principles of design thinking to better understand the needs of their patients and going beyond the traditional...

...provide feedback to design these programs. Other clinics are beginning to use the principles of design thinking to better understand the needs of their patients and going beyond the traditional...

...Medicine X Live! to host Hangout on design thinking for patient engagement and Quite the reach: Stanford Medicine X set record for most number of tweets at a health-care conference...

...Medicine X Live! to host Hangout on design thinking for patient engagement and Quite the reach: Stanford Medicine X set record for most number of tweets at a health-care conference...

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...available in the Medicine X category. Previously: Medicine X Live! to host Hangout on design thinking for patient engagement, Quite the reach: Stanford Medicine X set record for most number...

...available in the Medicine X category. Previously: Medicine X Live! to host Hangout on design thinking for patient engagement, Quite the reach: Stanford Medicine X set record for most number...

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