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

Grant
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
Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH

Tag: sickcare

Making a bit of me.

In response to the earlier Atoms are the New Bits post a commenter tipped us off (thank you!) to this article from The Economist: "The great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, [...]
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A sustainable hospital design.

"Hospitals have a brutal effect on the earth. They consume twice as much energy as typical office buildings and operate 24/7. Often, they're little better for people: The $41 billion health-care-construction industry habitually neglects design elements such as access to daylight that have been shown to boost healing. "Hospitals are the most challenging building type [...]
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Designing bugs out.

"Patients go into hospitals to be cured of what ails them, but the ugly truth is that some get sick from being there. In 2007, around 9,000 people in the United Kingdom died from hospital-borne infections. Though the National Health Service has implemented procedural changes that have halved the number of antibiotic-resistant staph infections, or [...]
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What is the difference between health and healthcare?

According to the dictionary: Health = the state of being free from illness or injury. Healthcare = the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services. While this is true, the modern understanding of healthcare has morphed into what we call "paying for sickcare"-- when one becomes sick, [...]
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