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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

Harvard Business

Missed medical appointments, or “no-shows,” often create several operational challenges as well, from difficulties rescheduling clinical staff to interference with patient care and treatment. Each year approximately 3.6 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?

Harvard Business

It was meant to be a win-win: Patients and their families would get a better, more personalized hospital experience, and doctors could spend less time managing patients and more time practicing medicine. ” It was true that the PCEs they’d hired didn’t have medical training.