Digital Health

Innovate and shape the future

Digitalization has enormous potential for healthcare. The question, however, is how can we combine technical possibilities with economic benefits from a patient-centered perspective in the healthcare sector? Design Thinking can play a key role here as a mindset and innovation method. Multidisciplinary innovation teams bring in perspectives from users, such as those of patients, relatives, caregivers, doctors, emergency services, IT specialists, and public administration. In this way, we can develop holistic approaches to healthcare.

With the close connection to the "Digital Health Cluster" and the "Digital Global Public Health" department at the Hasso Plattner Institute, we at the HPI d-school enable the direct integration of experts from research and practice in "Digital Health and Well-being" into our offerings. On the other hand, we use the Design Thinking mindset to guide the development of user- and life-centered, innovative applications in the healthcare sector. The focus on computer science at the Hasso Plattner Institute also enriches the solution paths for digitalizing complex processes in the healthcare sector. It offers the right breeding ground and network for innovations.

Are you keen to learn more about digital health within the intersection of Design Thinking? Would you like to develop digital applications in the healthcare sector and broaden your specific methodological knowledge? Or do you have a business idea in the healthcare sector, and would you like to push it further until it is ready for market? Are you looking to join a specific research project? With our diverse programs, we at the d-school offer the right learning, development, and research environment. A few examples:

Collaboration for innovation

A concrete, practice-oriented use case of the application of Design Thinking in the healthcare sector is the “KriKom-LK-MEI” project (“Integrated, self-sufficient and fail-safe crisis communication in the Meißen district”). The project aims for an independent and integrated crisis communication system for disaster protection.

To develop a suitable crisis communication strategy, “use cases” are created and examined. In this way, we identify the requirements and functions of the crisis communication system and the interfaces between the technological components. This is where our Design Thinking expertise at the HPI d-school comes into full play.

We actively attend to and solve problems based on human-centered solutions. In the healthcare sector, we use this to promote technological innovations and develop practical solutions. Prototypes are created through interdisciplinary collaboration and targeted workshops tailored to users' needs. Together, we ensure that the solutions are technically feasible, economically viable, and needed.