We’re Future Medical Systems. We’re a design and development consultancy, dedicated to improving healthcare at every stage of the journey: for patients, for professionals, and for the wider community.
WE WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS TO MAKE MEANINGFUL CHANGE HAPPEN, IN EVERY CORNER OF HEALTHCARE.
Healthcare isn’t just one big thing, of course. It’s really a web of relationships: interconnected people, processes and organizations, working to accomplish a lot of important and useful things, big and small. That’s a lot of complexity. What we do, fundamentally, is help our clients in the health field get past complexity to accomplish transformative change.
WE ENVISION THE FUTURE OF HEALTH
WE LOVINGLY RE-DESIGN CARE DELIVERY
WE GROW HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
WE DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES INTO EXPERIENCES
OUR TEAM
We practice a systems-led approach, one designed to uncover opportunities and challenges that might otherwise be obscured by complexity.We have a big interdisciplinary tool box. Our practice is grounded in applied engineering, anthropology, product and process design, and community policy.
Kara Harrington
A designer by training, Kara brings deep experience in executing human-centered design projects from strategy to implementation to scale.
Lizzie Garrett
With a background in architecture, Lizzie is a UX designer who creates digital products and services that weave together strategy, experience and details.
Rob Lister
Rob is a healthcare design strategist (and ex-mechanical engineer) with two decades of expertise in healthcare including bringing complex offerings to life.
Schirin Lucie Richter
Trained as an anthropologist, Schirin is a complex-innovation program manager, with a background in systems-oriented design and designing for population health.
EQUITY + DIVERSITY IN HEALTH
We created Future Medical Systems to take part in creating a better, fairer and more healthy future. We have come to learn over the years that this means that we need to shine a light on and address systemic injustice in health care delivery. Our commitment to inclusivity, social equity and fighting racism is an essential part of this mission.
WHO WE'VE WORKED WITH
WHAT OUR
CLIENTS SAY
“You did what others didn’t: real human-centered design, customized to make sure that it worked for us.”
Riaz Ali, CEO Saeidan
“The FMS team is masterful at pulling insights and formulating design directions. We successfully changed our approach at Stanford Coordinated Care with their help.”
Alan Glaseroff, co-founder of SCC, adjunct professor at CERC, Stanford Medicine
“It’s about the background and knowledge the FMS team has; all the things we didn’t need to explain. Their experience really benefitted us.”
Anita Kraker von Schwarzenfeld, Lead for Women’s Health, Integrated Care, Bayer