Cognitive Design

With the growing wave of aging baby boomers sporting multiple chronic diseases, there are services emerging to help care for them at home.  Intel is on the leading edge with Health Guide.

The success or failure of such services turns on their cognitive design.

Will they improve compliance with treatment plans and promote change in health behaviors in patients? Will they support timely and accurate clinical decision-making and treatment planning?  Clearly, we can have all the gadgets and information in the world and still not produce the outcomes we need.

Check out Elder Care by Remote for a little insight into Health Guide’s effectiveness and an overview of other players in the aging-in-place market.

My hope is that we do not apply the same dated assumptions about patient and clinician cognition that have dominated design in traditional healthcare setting to the emerging opportunities for remote management and care.

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