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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

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In Mary’s case, she couldn’t explain her concerns through the standard patient experience survey, which is initiated after an appointment and which comprises general questions focused on the medical visit. Designing a Patient-Centered Experience. They would seek out patterns and aim to define the real problem at hand.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

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Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Ben Edwards/Getty Images.