1 Changemakers: Designers and Healthcare -- Part I Participatory Human Centred Co-Design -- 2 Virtual Multi-Clinician Care for Diabetes: the Virtual Outpatient Integration for Chronic Disease (VOICeD) telehealth project -- 3 Cancer Wellness: Co-creating a new virtual service delivery model -- 4 Equitable Access to Stroke Care: Visualising systems of care for stroke patients -- Part II Design Thinking -- 5 It takes a village': Co-designing family-centred care in a paediatric intensive care unit -- 6 NICU mum to PICU researcher: A reflection on place, people and the power of shared experience. -- 7 Bringing the university to the hospital: QUT Design Internships at the Queensland Childrens’ Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit -- 8 Designing out-procedural pain: the value of a rapid onehour co-design sprint -- 9 Co-designing Design Thinking Workshops 10 Introducing Design Thinking for Senior Health Professionals -- Part III Prototyping -- 11 More than a cute thing to do -- Part IV Design Doing -- 12 Parroting playful places: Designing wayfinding for the Queensland Children’s Hospital -- 13 “Whose heartbeat is that?”: An animation approach to promoting cultural safety in healthcare -- 14 Co-designing access to just healthcare for all consumers -- 15 Graphics and Icons for healthcare with a focus on cultural appropriateness, diversity and inclusion -- 16 Agency and Access: Redesigning the prison health request process -- Part V Design Visioning 17 Co-designing the future: Technology-enabled care in regional communities -- 18 Connecting rehabilitation teams: A design-led, arts-based and appreciative inquiry inspired approach to organizational change in healthcare -- 19 Emergency Room Exits and Entrances -- 20 Design as a catalyst for ‘systemic designability’: Reflecting on the origins of HEAL and its vital role in transforming healthcare in Queensland.

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This is an open access book. How Designers are Transforming Healthcare is a bold manifesto for change, demonstrating the value of a strategic design-led approach. Drawing on a rich array of real-world projects, this book illustrates how designers, in collaboration with clinicians and consumers, are co-creating transformative change across healthcare environments, products, services, and systems. In a fascinating multi-voice conversation, this book outlines how design methods and mindsets, including co-design, prototyping, design and futures thinking, facilitates creative problem-solving. The ideas, tools, and challenges in How Designers are Transforming Healthcare make it a vital text - a doer’s guide - for designers, clinicians, academics, consumers, and policymakers seeking innovative strategies for engagement, innovation and improvement in healthcare.

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