Healthcare
Real-world frictions in health and medical care. They include missed medicines, hard-to-read prescriptions and discharge instructions, referrals without knowing treatment is available, and home health devices that are hard to use.
11 frictions
- Elderly People Often Forget to Take Their Medicines on Time FJ-000040
- Finding Medicines in Busy Pharmacies Takes Longer Than Expected FJ-000041
- Medical Prescriptions Are Still Difficult for Patients to Read and Understand FJ-000042
- Online Symptom Searches Often Increase Anxiety Instead of Providing Clear Early Guidance FJ-000043
- Hospital Discharge Instructions Remain Difficult for Patients and Families to Understand FJ-000044
- Patients Face Financial and Travel Burdens While Completing Diagnostic Testing FJ-000045
- Patients Can Be Referred to Hospitals Without Knowing Whether Treatment Is Actually Available FJ-000046
- People Get No Simple Early Warning Before Sudden Heart Attacks and Strokes FJ-000089
- Home Blood Pressure Monitors Can Make a Simple Check Difficult Through Cuff Fitting, Repeated Errors, and Unclear Reliability FJ-000189
- Blood Glucose Meters Leave Users to Manage Blood Application, Strip Handling, Storage, and Errors That Can Waste a Test or Hide a Doubtful Result FJ-000190
- An X-Ray Image Can Be Hard to View Clearly, Easy to Damage, and Difficult for the Patient to Understand FJ-000191