We design services and products that create health and happiness.
We create unique solutions for healthy products, brands, and businesses.
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
Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
He's been called "The Doctor of the Future" and one of the "Top Ten Most Creative People in Healthcare" by Fast Company. Esquire Magazine included him in 2009's "Best and Brightest: Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World" issue. He's been featured in GOOD Magazine, CNN, Newsweek, and Health Affairs. The leading trade publication for hospital and system executives, Hospitals and Health Networks, dedicated a cover article to Jay entitled, Your Future Chief of Staff? Jay also appears in Seth Godin's new book, Linchpin. Instead of pills and scalpels, Jay uses creative design to improve health. He is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health from Johns Hopkins. He appreciates aesthetics, our rapidly changing culture, and our health. He straddles lines— both pop culture and traditional healthcare have embraced his ideas. Jay speaks on an international stage-- Pop!Tech, The Guardian Activate Summit, California Chronic Health Foundation, and the British Medical Journal. Prior to founding The Future Well, Jay co-founded Hello Health, a novel way of experiencing healthcare via a Facebook-like platform that uses technology — including email, instant messaging, and video chat — to restore the traditional doctor-patient relationship but updated for today’s lifestyle. Selected Writings BusinessWeek: How to Redesign Healthcare Design Observer: Road to Wellville. How to redesign a broken healthcare system. GOOD Magazine: Fixing What Ails the Sickness Industry. Upcoming Speaking Engagements Healthcare IT Institute Sutter Health Generation Next Gov 2.0 Cusp Conference Aspen Institute Previous Speaking Engagements The Clinton Global Initiative, Pop!Tech, California Chronic Health Foundation, The Guardian Activate Summit, British Medical Association, South by Southwest, PSFK, and many more... Download a hi-res photo of Jay.