Data-driven Patient Profiles
Definition, validation, and implementation for tailored orthopaedic healthcare services
Creation of a validated patient profiling methology to design healthcare services tailored to patients in orthopaedics.
Researcher:
Tessa Dekkers
Design methodologies:
- Data-driven design
Project type: PhD Project
Domain: Design in Healthcare
Design Level: Systemic Design
2020
Challenge
The aim of this project was to improve the experience of orthopedic patients undergoing a total joint replacement (TJR). Patient profiling could enable the health care profesionals, like orthopaedic surgeons, to tailor their interactions to patient's needs and expectations. The challenge of this project was to create patient profiling based on relevant patient characteristics based on data-driven research.
These profiles provide medical and creative professionals with actionable insights into a very diverse group of consumers who at times seem to require very different healthcare services.
Tessa Dekkers
Result
This PhD project produced a set of data-driven patient profiles demonstrating how the preferences, needs, and characteristics of patients who undergo a TJR surgery can be represented. Furthermore, it resulted in a more fundamental understanding how these patient profiles can be implemented in the design of tailored healthcare services. The profiles provide medical and creative professionals with actionable insights into a very diverse group of consumers who at times seem to require very different healthcare services.
Huib de Ridder
- +31 (0)15 27 81815
- H.deRidder@tudelft.nl
- Publications
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Room 32-C-2-290
Marijke Melles
- +31 (0)15 27 87514
- M.Melles@tudelft.nl
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Room C-3-080
"A well thought-out medical product reflects the daily experiences of the medical practitioner."