We design, speak, and consult to inspire health. Let's work together.

Grant Harrison

What Do We Do?

We identify business opportunities and design practical and elegant solutions that positively impact health and happiness. Sometimes we identify the opportunity and find the right partners to execute it and sometimes we build it ourselves. Other times, we help guide clients so their product or service is simple, elegant, and wrapped up with a business strategy that leverages their core competencies.

What Have We Done?

Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH

Topics
- Clients
- culture
- design
- health
- Loyalty
Tags
- activity
- aged care
- aging
- architecture
- awesomeness
- behavior
- books
- children
- consumption
- corporate culture
- cost
- data
- diet
- disruptions
- DIY
- education
- environment
- exercise
- food
- form
- function
- gaming
- genius
- government
- graphic design
- green
- guidelines
- happiness
- health
- healthcare
- hospital
- humor
- industrial design
- infographic
- innovation
- insurance
- iPad
- iPhone
- low cost
- loyalty
- marketing
- medication
- networks
- NHS
- obesity
- passive data
- pharmaceuticals
- press
- prevention
- productivity
- projects
- Public Health 2.0
- rewards
- safety
- service design
- sickcare
- signage
- simplicity
- SMS
- social media
- speaking
- sustainability
- the future
- this is health
- transportation
- urban
- videos
- weight
- wireless

Monthly Archives: February 2011

Health apps are about as effective as public health ads.

Date
February 22, 2011
Author
Jay Parkinson
Reactions
27 Comments

A quick glance at the iPhone app store for medical and health-related iPhone apps shows that, if you want to manage your health via your iPhone, you have a ton of options built with relatively little effort and cost. I have about 100 apps on my iPhone, but the average user has about 40. I [...]

Posted in design |

Most health solutions aren’t medical, they’re social.

Date
February 2, 2011
Author
Jay Parkinson
Reactions
20 Comments

A few months ago, I discovered that my stove was broken. I've lived in the same apartment for over three years. I never cooked. I always went out to eat at restaurants in my neighborhood. I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We've got some of the best places to eat in all of NYC. I ate [...]

Posted in culture | Tagged behavior, exercise, food, healthcare |