This article explores how health innovation designers articulate care and responsibility when designing new health technologies. Towards this end, we draw on Tronto's ethic of care framework and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) scholarship to analyse interviews with Canadian health innovators (n = 31). Our findings clarify how respondents: 1) direct their attention to needs and ways to improve care; 2) mobilise their skill set to take care of problems; 3) engage in what we call ‘care-making’ practices by prioritising key material qualities; and 4) operationalise responsiveness to caregivers and care-receivers through user-centred design. We discuss the inclusion of health innovation designers within the care relationship as ‘care-makers’ as well as the tensions underlying their ways of caring and their conflicting responsibilities.

本文探讨了健康创新设计师在设计新的健康技术时如何表达护理和责任。为此，我们借鉴了Tronto的护理伦理框架和负责任的研究与创新（RRI）奖学金来分析对加拿大卫生创新者的采访（n = 31）。我们的发现阐明了受访者如何：1）将注意力转移到改善护理的需求和方法上；2）调动他们的技能来解决问题；3）通过优先考虑关键的材料质量来从事我们所谓的“护理”实践；和4）通过以用户为中心的设计来实现对看护者和接受者的响应。我们讨论了将健康创新设计师包括在“护理人员”的护理关系中，以及他们护理方式和职责冲突之间的紧张关系。