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Making. Healthier. Human. Futures.
For more than 40 years, IDEO has helped the world's leading organizations make the future. Together with our clients, we are on a mission to shape a healthier, more human future for everyone. With decades of experience in healthcare innovation, we're pushing boundaries to design solutions that are as compassionate as they are groundbreaking.
Find out how design can set you apart, help you grow, and solve your toughest challenges. Discover how we’re partnering with organizations to reimagine patient care, optimize digital health, and build systems that truly prioritize people.
Together, we can create a healthcare landscape that's not just better, but profoundly more human.
Together, we can create a healthcare landscape that's not just better, but profoundly more human.
HLTH 2026
We're going to be at HLTH in Vegas, and we'd love to see you there.
Drop us an email at health@ideo.com and let's talk about slaying some monsters.
Drop us an email at health@ideo.com and let's talk about slaying some monsters.
Until then, we're sharing some of the latest signals we've been tracking below, and well as our Women's Health x AI Exchange. We'd love for you to add your perspective.
Dreaming up a more courageous future in healthcare? Get in touch. We'd love to help you make it happen.
Feel free to include any details or anecdotes about what brought you here today, it will help make sure we get you connected to the best person right away.
How might we build confidence and reduce risk in healthcare innovation?
How might we make everyday life healthier by design?
How might we use technology to make healthcare futures more human?
How might we inspire more courageous healthcare organizations?
Meet some of our
Healthcare design leaders.
Matthew Higham
Partner
Matthew focuses on the use of design as a powerful tool for change in the healthcare sector. He partners closely with organisations to understand their needs and works tirelessly to build the right systems, approaches, and structures to translate these needs into superlative products and experiences.
Ari Adler
Partner
As a Partner in the Cambridge studio, Ari spends his time helping clients and teams grow and bring innovative products, services, and experiences to the world. He is particularly interested in how emerging technologies help us reimagine everyday human experiences and fundamentally change how we relate to each other and to the world around us.
Betsy Fields Smith
Executive Design Director
Betsy is the Executive Design Director of Health at IDEO London. For over two decades, she has built transformative client relationships and led teams driving innovation across sectors, with deep expertise in designing products, services, and experiences that improve patient journeys and encourage proactive engagement in health.
Hannah Rosenfeld
Executive Design Director
Hannah is an Executive Design Director at IDEO, where she leads complex research and strategy programs across healthcare. She brings deep expertise in patient experience and healthcare delivery, with current work exploring how pharma commercialization may evolve amid wearable-mediated, AI-moderated, and increasingly personalized patient journeys.
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Tara Safaie
Executive Director
Tara partners with health organizations to spark change from the inside out—designing innovation products and portfolios, cultivating new capabilities, and evolving organizational cultures. She has launched innovation labs, designed more cohesive patient journeys through a cardiology department, redefined employee value propositions, and more. Tara's work has stretched from pharma to care systems, championing human-centricity at every turn.
Jesse Fourt
Executive Director
Jesse's hands-on process enables organizations to launch meaningful, impactful, challenging products. At IDEO since 2000, Jesse has led and engineered a wide range of products including drug delivery devices, vascular access products, surgical tools, consumer and industrial electronics, furniture, and household goods.
Yicheng “YC” Sun
Senior Director
YC helps lead IDEO San Francisco’s healthcare portfolio, specializing in building digital products and emerging technologies. He applies human-centered design in service of individual and collective wellbeing and is constantly thinking about how to bring healthcare ventures from ideation to market.