Design Contest Aims to Improve Patient Decisions
Making decisions well when you have just been diagnosed with a serious condition is very difficult, especially in today’s healthcare system. Even making decisions to insure wellness or prevent illness can be tough. What is needed is improved patient-clinician teaching, social and emotional support systems and technology and local resources for managing information and understanding conditions. If you have solutions for meeting these cognitive design challenges you might want to enter the new Changemakers contest (sponsored by Amgen) on Patients | Choices| Empowerment. The site is open for entries now, the deadline is September 29th and the top prize is $10K and a chance to go after a much larger grant.
Even you don’t want to enter still check out the site and review the creative ideas, leave comments and vote! Interested to hear from readers that make a submission.
