How does a BME go about identifying an unmet clinical need?
Establishing a strategic focus
Perform a comprehensive personal inventory that can lead the innovator to an appropriate and exciting strategic focus.
Personal mission - acts as a governing constitution by which you evaluate your decisions and choose your behavior. this can help you to define your own strategic focus.
Acceptance Criteria - the parameters that must be met to make an innovation project attractive to the innovator.This can be used to help define a strategic focus.
Ethnographic Research flow chart
Identify the guiding question for the observations (e.g., How does the medical care team in a hospital interact with patients who suffer from heart disease?)
Identify field sites (places for observation)
Get integrated in the field site; performed and record observations
Supplement the observations with follow-up interviews of people who can provide insights into the observations
Analyze the data to provide a thesis and an argument (this is the problem statement and the data that supports it)
The Bio-design Process for Performing Observations flow chart