Advanced Design Day 5
Today was the day for the midterm review. There was quite a rush yesterday in order to come up with something presentable, and though we were able to do so there were a few problems, and pointed out by the reviewers. In short, we we’re too solution driven. This meant that we overlooked some crucial aspects of the problem we wanted to address. In order to fix this we talked to some people who were knowledgeable about the pharmaceutical industry, specifically out patient care. They were part of the same pharmacy which our patient had troubles with. In doing so we realized that the pharmacy had measures in place to inform patients about drug shortages, similar to what our patient had experienced. Also we found that our idea to work with the pharmacies in creating new measures would not be feasible, since they had no need for new measures. Therefore we were in a position were we needed to reevaluate our need statement, and meet with our patient once again.
-Ahnaf H.
BME Design 