The purpose of this paper is to form the method, based on the concept of co-creation, for discovering potential needs that will be led to the development of medical devices that are effective for patient-centered team medicine. Therefore, we conducted the field work using of developmental work research based on expansive learning. In the field work, we conducted a participant observation and interviews with a nurse, as a research collaborator, who practice patient-centered team medical care at a rehabilitation hospital in a local city. We analyzed and considered the field work results using knotworking, in-born intelligence as the concept of co-creation, and small self-actualization. As a result of the analysis and consideration, we found phenomenon in the practice of nurses, which can be regarded as co-creation based on in-born intelligence model, with the appearance of small self-actualization from the outside. Furthermore, we showed the process by which even developers of medical equipment manufacturer and members of team medicine can have an internal measurement perspective after passing through the stage of contribution to fellows in small self-actualization. We came up with the internal measurement method to discover = co-create potential needs that would lead to the development of effective medical devices in the medical field.
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