Ideation

Thematic Analysis We had the opportunity to interview and use our engagement tool with occupational therapists, a gastroenterologist, a manager, and a specialist nurse. We did a thematic analysis of the interview to find patterns and themes. We came across themes like empowerment, patient autonomy, goals & motivation, emotions and medical constraints from a patients perspective. Themes like challenges, building trust, treatment, tools, and support came across as practitioner-driven interventions. We found that medical constraints were a problem for both the patients as well as the practitioners. The analysis helped us understand the system’s pitfalls and gave us a direction to find our ultimate HMW.

Deciding our HMW After all the interviews and analysis, we had to rethink our HMW Statement. We started posting all the possible HMW statements on the board. Later, we voted on the best ideas.

Later we selected the top ideas and articulated them in the form of a tree structure to see how different ideas intersect. This finally led us to our final HMW statement: HMW empower patients with goal-based treatment plans?

Sketching We decided to meet in a park for the ideation process, as it was a sunny day and do some real-time sketching. The sketching exercise helped us to explore wild and crazy ideas. Through this sketching, we were able to pick some of the tools like a guidebook, assessment tool, goal planner and many more. The ideation was a fun way to explore ideas.