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: 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