In Policy Meets Design, a new course offered by Cornell University;s Department of Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), students learn evidence-based design principles that can be applied in health care and other settings to boost efficiency and adapt to fast-changing policies and business and operational models, according to an article on the Cornell Chronicle website
Co-taught by Mark Furgeson and Michele Flanagin, executives at FreemanWhite and Kaiser Permanente, respectively, the course allows students to work with health care community partners to study patient and worker needs, analyze new policies and propose design solutions.
Its community-based activities are funded in part by Cornell’s Engaged Learning + Research center and the Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, the article said.
The course tackles the “big questions” in health design: how to ensure quality, efficiency and safety for patients in light of changing policies and cost reductions in health care, according to DEA assistant professor Rana Zadeh from the College of Human Ecology.
Read the article.
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