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Data-driven Patient Profiles

Definition, validation, and implementation for tailored orthopaedic healthcare services

Creation of a validated patient profiling methology to design healthcare services tailored to patients in orthopaedics.

Researcher:

Tessa Dekkers

Design methodologies:

Data-driven design

Project type: PhD Project

Domain: Design in Healthcare

Design Level: Systemic Design

2020

Challenge

The aim of this project was to improve the experience of orthopedic patients undergoing a total joint replacement (TJR). Patient profiling could enable the health care profesionals, like orthopaedic surgeons, to tailor their interactions to patient's needs and expectations. The challenge of this project was to create patient profiling based on relevant patient characteristics based on data-driven research.

These profiles provide medical and creative professionals with actionable insights into a very diverse group of consumers who at times seem to require very different healthcare services.
Tessa Dekkers

Result

This PhD project produced a set of data-driven patient profiles demonstrating how the preferences, needs, and characteristics of patients who undergo a TJR surgery can be represented. Furthermore, it resulted in a more fundamental understanding how these patient profiles can be implemented in the design of tailored healthcare services. The profiles provide medical and creative professionals with actionable insights into a very diverse group of consumers who at times seem to require very different healthcare services.