Marie Kondo And Digital Health
The Japanese art of decluttering and tidying up could show
medical professionals what they could get rid of in healthcare so the
surroundings of patients and care processes could become agreeable. Here, the
aim is not to “spark joy” but to make all the activities in healthcare
invisible and inevitable – no waiting times, no (necessary) medical visits,
less administration – to cause as little concern
to patients as possible. Let’s see how digital health could help make
medicine neat!
A fragile Japanese woman and the art of tidying up
After Netflix introduced its latest reality show about
Marie Kondo, the cute Japanese fairy entering messy U.S. households and helping
their inhabitants on their journey to decluttering and tidying their homes, the
KonMari method swept through the entire universe, it seems. Of course, the show
had a great timing – at the beginning of the year people are eager to bring
change in their lives – but its rising
popularity also shows a human need much
deeper than that. If we believe in the philosophy that our environments, our
“outsides” reflect on the processes within ourselves on the “insides”, then these simple efforts towards domestic
order also mirror our wishes for simplicity, transparency, and tidiness
in ourselves in general.
When Marie Kondo says that we have to take out our clothes,
books, papers, personal belongings out of the drawers, and only keep the ones
that “spark joy”, she encourages us to
examin...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design administration chatbot chatbots decluttering digital health marie kondo patient management smart smart healthcare technology telemedicine tidying up waiting waiting time Source Type: blogs
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