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Q: HOW DO WE SHIFT DIAGNOSTICS TO THE HOME, TO EASE THE OVERLOAD OF PATIENTS ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?
A: USE INEXPENSIVE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO REPLICATE PROVEN DIAGNOSTICS AT A FRACTION OF THE PRICE.
BLOOD LAB FOR THE HOMEI further developed my fluency with technology in a project where I looked to shift diagnostics from the hospital to the home. | SPEAKING WITH A LEAD NURSEI did this because I found that nurses are vastly overbooked, so patients do not always get the care they need. | PROBLEMS WITH CURRENT DIAGNOSTICSAnd while blood tests are currently the most effective method of diagnosis, lab tests require $40,000 equipment and tests can cost up to $8000, and tests take a while and often miss problems because they look for a limited scope. |
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SKETCHINGI found people wanted something slightly medical looking, with a touch screen, that let people check their results with a medical professional. | SURVEYSI developed and chose the form based on surveys, | INTERVIEWINGAs well as through talking to people who could use a device like this to manage ongoing health issues, to find out what people really wanted. |
MODEL MAKINGBy talking to experts in the field, I refined how the internal components fit into this product, and used models to test the form for usability. | REFINING THE INTERNALSI sourced inexpensive parts created by places like U. Stanford and U. Illinois to identify particles in the blood by light frequency and density against the database being created by John Hopkins, | EXPLORING MANUFACTURINGAnd looked at the whole life cycle of the product, from manufacturing of parts, to packaging and potential interfaces. |
POTENTIAL PACKAGING | POTENTIAL INTERFACES | USABILITY TESTINGAnd the result was a product that, during user testing, generated the response of, “this product is perfect for me.” |
WHAT IT DOESIt’s not just a form, product that uses inexpensive, cutting-edge technology to bring laboratory-level diagnostics to the home at a fraction of the price, free up hospital staff, save hospitals up to 15 mil over 5 years by outsourcing lab services. |
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