This document discusses participatory design in healthcare. It describes how the author collaborated with patients to design educational videos about food allergies after her son was diagnosed. This led to the videos being shared widely online and her son gaining confidence as an expert. The author advocates for participatory design and positioning patients as experts, makers, and collaborators. She founded HealthDesignBy.Us to bring together patients, designers, and healthcare providers to collaboratively design solutions.
54. B extended his allergy work
at the We #makehealth Fest
http://goo.gl/bEY0Tg http://goo.gl/fPTFuF
55. B gave the opening
remarks at the Fest too!
http://goo.gl/bEY0Tg
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57. HealthDesignBy.Us
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My gratitude to our patient experts, Matt
Kenyon, John Marshall, Patricia Anderson, Nancy
Benovich Gilby, Emily Puckett Rogers, Scott
Olson, Amy Cohn, Patricia Abbott, Kelly Parent,
John Costik, Jose Gomez-Marquez, Emily
Hirschfeld, Ghada Mustapha, Jacob Hendricks,
Margot Robert, Xiaoying He, Trevor Torres, Nick
Reid, Sam Oliver, Charles Woodson Research
Fund, UM Provost, & the HealthDesignBy.Us
virtual community