Healthcare needs Design: STAT!
To all those designers spooked by the rampant commoditization and offshoring of consumer products, you may want to point your talents toward healthcare. Estimates suggest that preventable error in healthcare is killing more people than AIDS, breast cancer or auto accidents--up to 100,000 annually in the US.Forget walking for a cure, the FDA points at “inadequate device design” as a major culprit, and an opportunity to save a substantial number of lives.
Calling all designers, you are urgently needed at the nursing station!