Could the IKEA approach help assemble truly patient-centric healthcare?

01 Jun 2023

What do IKEA and healthcare have in common?

IKEA furniture aims to make instructions as simple as possible, where the customer actively participates in making the final product, and standardization allows state-of-the-art, desirable and low-cost products.

Similarly, if we had a standardized way of collecting and using patient outcomes data, which is easy for patients to use, this would be a game-changer for medical knowledge and healthcare.

This is a world that the H2O are driving towards, with the creation of Health Outcomes Observatories for collecting patient outcomes data!

Read the full paper here!

Author:

Meni Styliadou and Tanja Stamm