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Towards designing for health outcomes: implications for designers in eHealth design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Hosana Cristina Morales Ornelas ,
Maaike S. Kleinsmann  and
Gerd Kortuem
Hosana Cristina Morales Ornelas*
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Maaike S. Kleinsmann
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gerd Kortuem
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
*
h.c.moralesornelas@tudelft.nl

Abstract

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eHealth development faces the challenge of generating evidence about health effectiveness in real-world settings. Designers can potentially support this challenge but must understand health approaches to evidence generation about health outcomes. This case study investigates how health and care professionals conceptualise health outcomes and their evidence generation in eHealth. Our results identify three key conceptual dimensions: effect, meaning, and collection. We discuss how these inform future design competencies to support evidence generation about health outcomes in eHealth design.

Keywords

evidence-based practicehealthcare designdesign practicedesign competencesdesign evaluation

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Design for Healthcare
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 1627 - 1636
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