Transforming Healthcare through Creative Thinking and Design

Authored by award-winning medical scientist Dr. Barry McMahon and esteemed business school Professor Dr. Paul Coughlan, this book serves as a comprehensive guide for professionals in the medical and healthcare sectors. It outlines the importance of creative thinking and design concepts in enhancing patient experience and resolving challenges in healthcare delivery.

A Framework for Innovation in Healthcare

This book provides a unique framework for conceptualizing innovation in healthcare and medicine. It emphasizes the value of learning in action and demonstrates how challenges can be addressed through novel approaches, drawing on case examples from healthcare and other industries, as well as the authors’ own experiences as innovators and educators.

Interdisciplinary Approach and Practical Case Studies

The book presents a clear interdisciplinary approach, complemented with practical case studies set in the context of the challenges facing healthcare delivery in the 21st century. It is an ideal resource for all working in medicine and healthcare, from managers, nurses, doctors, administrators, executives, and allied health professionals to medical engineers, medical physicists, medical scientists, and medical product developers.

About the Authors

Dr. Barry McMahon has a national and international reputation as an Academic Medical Physicist in the fields of novel physiological measurement and medical device innovation and design. He is the co-inventor of the Functional Lumen Imaging Probe (FLIP) technique later commercialized as EndoFLIP. He was the Director of the Innovation Academy at Trinity College Dublin from 2012 to 2017. Since 2020, he has been advising Children’s Health Ireland on innovation practice. In 2021, he retired as Chief Physicist/Clinical Engineer at Tallaght Hospital, Ireland, and currently runs his own innovation-consulting group, Electric Mindset Ltd.

Dr. Paul Coughlan is Professor in Operations Management and Co-Director of Faculty at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. His research explores collaborative strategic improvement of operations through network action learning. He was the Director of the Innovation Academy at Trinity College Dublin from 2010 to 2012. He is a founding director of a research-based spin-out venture, Easy Hydro Ltd.

Publication Details

Published by CRC Press in July 2023, this book is available in English. The ISBNs are 9780367641122 and 9781000899313.