# Healthcare Co-Design Workshops: Our 3-Stage Methodology (Scoping, Facilitation, Delivery)

- **Author** : Anna Ferrere & Sébastien Letélié (Facilitation & Strategy, Health Factory)
- **Published** : 2025-07-08
- **Category** : Methodology & Design Thinking
- **Canonical URL** : https://healthfactory.io/en/blog/ateliers-co-construction-projet/

> **Executive Summary (BLUF)** : Health Factory’s healthcare co-design workshops (“Ideas Shaker” for problem discovery and ideation, and “Design Maker” for project acceleration, lasting from half a day to 2 days) follow a structured 3-stage methodology: 1. Strategic Scoping and custom expert selection; 2. High-energy Facilitation using proprietary healthcare Design Thinking canvases; 3. Actionable Delivery producing a validated experimentation roadmap.

## Key Takeaways
- Two signature formats: “Ideas Shaker” (ideation) and “Design Maker” (project acceleration).
- Flexible duration from half a day to 2 full days with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
- Stage 1 — Scoping: problem framing, participant curation, and mobilization of Health Factory domain experts.
- Stage 2 — Facilitation: divergence/convergence cycles using custom digital health canvases.
- Stage 3 — Delivery: structured synthesis, prototype specifications, and 2-week experimentation roadmap.

## 1. Scoping: Setting the Stage for Collective Intelligence

Half of a workshop’s success happens before the session begins. During scoping, we work closely with hospital leadership, pharma teams, or startup founders to frame the exact clinical or operational problem.

We curate a diverse group of participants—bringing together clinicians, expert patients, engineers, UX designers, and regulatory specialists from our international network.
## 2. Facilitation: Unlocking Creativity with Custom Healthcare Canvases

Our facilitators guide participants through inspiration, patient/clinician empathy mapping, divergent ideation, and rapid prototyping.

We use proprietary visual templates tailored to healthcare constraints (health data hosting compliance, clinical workflow integration, reimbursement pathways, and ethical design).

- Ideas Shaker format: uncover frontline pain points and generate breakthrough concepts from scratch.
- Design Maker format: challenge, structure, and prototype an existing project with targeted multi-domain experts.
## 3. Delivery: Turning Creative Energy into a Testable Roadmap

Every workshop concludes with an actionable deliverable: a validated value proposition, user journey storyboards, risk analysis, and a concrete short-term experimentation plan.