Designers:
Monash Design Health Collab
The Design Health Collab creates impactful healthcare designs, technologies, and services using a human-centred approach. The lab addresses complex health industry challenges by collaborating with diverse experts, consumers, and healthcare workers. Their research spans four areas: product design and wearables, service and system design, communication and user experience, and design advocacy and commercialisation. The lab's core values emphasise meaningful impact, accessibility, and equity in health solutions while nurturing future health designers. Their expertise covers various design aspects, from innovative devices to inclusive communication platforms, all aimed at resolving real-world health and wellbeing issues.
Project: Micro-X Head CT: A Point-Of-Care Stroke Diagnosis Device
The Micro-X Head Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner is an ambulance-based lightweight device enabling rapid onsite diagnosis and treatment in stroke emergencies. Unlike conventional CTs, it uses an arc array of 21 miniaturised X-ray emitters and a curved detector, providing diagnostic-quality 3D images. Co-designed with paramedics and clinicians, it prioritises human-centred outcomes, offering fast, high-resolution brain imaging, user-friendly workflow for non-specialists, and cost-effective design for emergency services. This four-year research involved collaboration among designers, engineers, scientists, and clinicians across Australia and the USA, ensuring widespread utility. This compact device aims to revolutionise stroke care by bringing advanced diagnostics directly to patients.
Category: Use
Designers and Project Team:
Monash University Design Health Collab:
Nyein Chan Aung
Daphne Flynn
Thomas Millward
Murray Camens
Bawden, Gene
Micro-X Ltd:
Anthony Skeats
Chris Delnoos
Brian Gonzales
Thomas McSkimming