NPR's Rene Montagne interviewed Tim Brown this morning on the issue of healthcare and design.  Tim said that he would love to create "the electronic medical record of the future" and that many new solutions have to be designed around people.  Interview is here.

CLOUD could not agree more with Tim and were thrilled to take part in a dialogue on this topic with frog design yesterday in a Twitter forum on #futureofhealthcare.  Transcript will be posted here soon.  The frog design sponsored forum was on their recent article, "Is the Future of Healthcare Social?" in Fast Company.

Not only is Tim right that the EMR of the future must be controlled by people but that design principle must be carried beyond the narrow silos of healthcare, education, financial services.  If we truly design around people, then it is not just a healthcare issue, it is about completely reinventing the Internet around people and not web pages.

Immunizations are an excellent example of data from the health domain that is needed by our schools at the start of every school year.  CLOUD's concept piece on the topic of immunizations, found here, reviews this design problem from the perspective of the dreaded clipboard and the intersection between healthcare and education from the point of view of ME, the individual.

At the end of the day, it is about the "Power of People.  Connected."  CLOUD applauds Tim and IDEO for pushing forward an important debate.