Health Research
February 19, 2009
Podcast Features News from the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center
Innovation is the word for the latest Kaiser Permanente News Center podcast, which features the latest news from the organization's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center.
Jennifer Ruzek Liebermann, the Garfield Center's director, talked about some of the latest innovations to come out of the center, which is in San Leandro, Calif., 15 minutes south of Kaiser Permanente's national headquarters. The Garfield Center is a one-of-a-kind living laboratory where human-centered design ideas are developed and tested in a safe, mocked-up clinical environment. The center is named for Sidney R. Garfield, MD, Kaiser Permanente's founding physician.
Among the key innovations developed or validated at the Garfield Center is a triangular design in medical-surgical areas in the newest Kaiser Permanente medical centers.
It's a lot less expensive and a lot easier to have a dedicated space where you could … get people away from their day-to-day challenges and run through scenarios.
We've found that it's a very low-cost environment to quickly trial ideas, and those that don't work we abandon quickly and go on to the solution that … does work,” Ruzek Liebermann said.
You also can find the podcast through the News Center's page in iTunes, or through its page in Feedburner.
