Oped: Learning from COVID-19: 4 Ways to Start Designing the Future of Healthcare Now
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our team will be interviewing experts from across the ecosystem to bring the HLTH community timely facts and updates.
We’ve now seen how coronavirus and its disease, COVID-19, revealed a most dire learning: how ill-prepared many environments are to control the spread of infection. The struggle to accommodate a highly infected populace has forced decisions about who gets what, and where, and how – a debate we shouldn’t and hopefully will never have again. I’ve found myself thinking about what can be learned and how people like me – designers – can take action to help safeguard against future health crises.