Submissions Open Until February 12th

About

Human-Centered Design Quick Sprint Challenge

The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation (HDSI) is offering a unique opportunity for staff, trainees and faculty to collaborate with Visiting HDSI Scholar, Kim Erwin, MDes, human-centered design (HCD) expert from the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech.

This nine-week Quick Sprint will provide you and your team HCD perspectives, collaboration and mentorship to look at a complicated care delivery process with two graduate students in design thinking to reimagine a new way of performing the work.

An Approach to Problem-Solving

What is Human-Centered Design?

Human-Centered Design (HCD) is an approach to problem-solving commonly used in design, management, and engineering frameworks that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. Human involvement typically takes place in observing the problem within context, brainstorming, conceptualizing, developing, and implementing the solution.

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Award

Two full-time graduate students with Kim Erwin’s mentorship will work closely with you to dissect the current state, prototype and refine solution options, validate solutions with stakeholders for desirability, feasibility and viability over time, deliver a final solution and a pilot plan for testing.

Eligibility

All UChicago Medicine staff, trainees and faculty are eligible to apply. Primary collaborator should have 2 hours per week as the content expert to devote to the students

Expectations of Project Leader

  • 1-2 hours per week with the students

  • Introduction to internal resources and contacts

  • Assistance with data access and understanding

  • Clinical expertise to complement student design knowledge

The Challenge calls on projects that align with UChicago Medicine’s Priority Scorecard measures

  • Reducing Surgical Site Infections

  • Improving New Patient Appointments within 14 Days

  • Improving Depression Screening and Follow-Up

  • Optimizing Patient and/or Provider Experience and Satisfaction

  • Initiative to Reduce Readmissions and/or Length of Stay

  • Improving Diabetes Management and Education – Inpatient and Ambulatory

  • Improving Hypertension Management

  • Tackle a Frontline First Initiative

    • Mobility Project
    • Meds2Beds Workgroup
    • 24×7 Hospital Workgroup
    • Discharge Paperwork
    • Insurance Clarification/Visibility
    • Patient Education Work team
    • Lab Stewardship Team

Timeline

Application open: January 2 - February 12

Winner announced: February 28

Project pre-work: April-May

Students begin: early June

Final Presentation to UChicago Medicine leadership and HDSI Scholars: August

Submissions Open Until February 12

If you have questions, please reach out directly to the HDSI team.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Past Human-Centered Design Quick Sprint Challenge Winners