Results for: Author: jenniferjackson

• Social Impact • Issue 018

  Futures of Policing

  In the future, police could use remote technology to peacefully disarm suspects without ever firing a shot. Or perhaps police will use lasers to slice off the legs of even nonviolent offenders. In the future, police forces may expand, but their demographics could reflect the multiculturality of a minority-white America. Or maybe drones will replace police altogether. If they don’t, community gardens potentially will.

  

• Healthcare • Issue 017

  UnitedHealth Group and Optum Emphasize the Care in Healthcare

  As with virtually every other aspect of our lives, technology has revolutionized healthcare. Over the past decade, patients and healthcare providers began to interact through online and mobile devices.

  

• Healthcare • Issue 017

  Smarter Healthcare: Expanding Patient Engagement

  The quest to improve American healthcare has traditionally focused on finding new drugs, producing more powerful diagnostic tools, and building medical centers with ever-expanding footprints. Despite these investments, costing 5 percent of GDP in 1960 and over 18 percent of GDP in 2018, the U.S. healthcare system is fundamentally broken, if not unsustainable.

  

• Healthcare • Issue 017

  Modern Midwifery: Designing Equitable Birthing Care

  An Interview with Tiffany Townsend, Certified Professional Midwife, Doula, and Certified Lactation Counselor

  

• Healthcare • Issue 017

  Community as Medicine: Re-Designing Healthcare

  I’m Dr. Elizabeth Markle. I’m a psychologist, an innovator and entrepreneur in the fields of human health and well-being, a scholar of Intentional Community (literally, community shaped by design), and Co-Founder of Open Source Wellness.