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SIX HEALTHCARE TRENDS AND
     WHY USER EXPERIENCE MATTERS



PointClear Solutions | March 2012


Dawn Nidy, Senior User Experience Strategist
Rodney M. Hamilton, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer




TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Introduction ................................................................................................................... 2
  Trend #1: Increased Adoption of Electronic Medical Records ...................................... 4
  Trend #2: Increased Level of Patient Engagement ....................................................... 6
  Trend #3: Mobile Health Becomes Mainstream ............................................................ 8
  Trend #4: Moving Towards Accountable Care ............................................................ 10
  Trend #5: The Rise of Retail Health Clinics ................................................................ 12
  Trend #6: Increased Care at Home Solutions ............................................................. 13
  Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 14
  About PointClear Solutions ......................................................................................... 14
  References .................................................................................................................. 15
 

INTRODUCTION
“Usability” has increasingly become a topic of interest in healthcare with the publication
of the NIST guidelinesi for EMR usability and the tie between those guidelines and
Meaningful Use Phase 2 requirements. Therefore, usability is no longer a topic that can
be ignored. However, we at PointClear Solutions would like to broaden the discussion to
include, but not be limited by the term “usability.” We would like to discuss the discipline
and concept of “User Experience” as it relates to current healthcare topics.

A great user experience is dependent on a high degree of usability, but it’s also more
than that. Let’s take a look at the definitions from The International Organization for
Standardization (ISO):

Usability
       “the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve
       specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified
       context of use” (ISO 9241-11)

User Experience
       “a person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use
       of a product, system or service.” (ISO 9241-210)

Usability testing helps determine the usability of an application. It often measures how a
user interface performs in task completion rate (what percentage of users can complete
a task) or time on task (how long a particular task takes). Experts can also perform
evaluations against best practices (heuristics). Usability testing is useful as a method of
measuring usability and identifying areas to improve.

However, if you don’t think about a user-centered approach until usability testing is
conducted on a fully built product, you are too late. Usability testing must be performed
on a completed design, or at least, a prototype of a design. Usability testing is also often
performed in a “usability lab” which takes the user out of their own context; this can
affect the interpretation of found usability issues.

User-Centered Design (UCD) is an approach and set of methods that aid user
experience practitioners in creating a usable product and great user experience. In
UCD, user research must begin at the start of your project to assess user needs, goals,
and workflow. Two methods we use at the beginning of a project are contextual inquiry
and task analysis. The outcomes of these methods can inform product decisions along
the entire software development lifecycle.

Contextual inquiry is a master/apprentice model of observing and asking questions to
learn how users go about their work. It involves:




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   •   Context – interviewing users in their own environments using the artifacts that are
       part of their daily work
   •   Partnership – a tone of collaborative exploration and alternating between
       observation and discussion
   •   Interpretation – reading between the lines to make connections between
       behavior, environment, and what users say
   •   Focus – subtle direction of the interview to capture details relevant to designii

Task analysis involves a series of open-ended interviews to develop a detailed
understanding of how people perform specific tasks. With this method we seek to
understand:
   •   Why the user is performing the task (goal)
   •   The frequency and importance of the task
   •   Cues – what initiates or prompts the task
   •   Dependencies – what must be in place to perform, and what is dependent on
       task completion
   •   The people involved – roles and responsibilities
   •   Specific actions performed
   •   Decisions made and information used to support decisions
   •   Errors and exception cases and how they are corrected

Simply measuring the usability of tasks in your application, while very important, is not
enough. Creating a great user experience requires a deep understanding of the end
users that can only be gained through direct observation in the users’ own context.
Usability testing will uncover aspects of the execution that should be corrected and help
you understand the priority of each issue. But usability testing does not replace the need
for a foundation of user understanding built into the product from the start.

If you are a vendor, you’ll be glad to know there are intrinsic financial benefits to
following a user-centered approach. An ROI analysis by Karat indicated a $10 return on
each dollar invested in usabilityiii. Products that are created with a user-centered
approach have reduced costs in support, training, and maintenance (fewer change
requests). In addition, the cost to correct a problem increases the further you are in the
development process. A user-centered approach combines up-front user research with
usability testing on prototypes rather than fully developed systems, as well as continued
measurement and improvement throughout the product lifecycle. Incorporating user
experience design will add value at any point in the process, but the value will diminish
the later it is applied in the project.

It costs 10 times as much to fix the same design problem if not found until the
development phase. And it costs a staggering 100 times as more to fix the same
problem in design if found after deployment. iv Detecting these issues earlier in the



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process or preventing them through user-centered design is a cost-effective approach to
developing products and services.

In this paper, we’ll talk about how user-centered design can benefit specific areas of the
healthcare market that are relevant today.


TREND #1: INCREASED ADOPTION OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) have the potential to transform the healthcare
industry by increasing the access to and exchange of clinical information by medical
providers and patients. However, there are significant challenges in implementing
EMRs. Some of them are directly related to the usability and user experience of the
software.

       “Two of the five major barriers to adoption of healthcare information and
                                                     communications technology in the
                                                     US are ‘lack of user friendly,
                                                     integrated technology solutions’ and
                                                     ‘lack of end-user acceptance’.” v

                                                     Creating the right tools for clinicians
                                                     requires a deep understanding of the
                                                     mental model of the end users. In
                                                     2011, Stead and Linvi evaluated
                                                     premier EMRs in the United States
                                                     and concluded that even these
                                                     systems did not provide the required
                                                     cognitive support for clinicians (i.e.,
                                                     tools for thinking about and solving
health problems). Cognitive support may include designs to provide an overview or
summary of the patient, information “at a glance,” intuitive designs and tailored support
for clinicians in specific contexts.vii

       “Designing something requires that you completely understand what a person
       wants to get done. Empathy with a person is distinct from studying how a person
       uses something. Empathy extends to knowing what the person wants to
       accomplish regardless of whether she has or is aware of the thing you are
       designing. You need to know the person’s goals and what procedure and
       philosophy she follows to accomplish them.” viii

A typical method that vendors use to understand workflow is to employ a Subject Matter
Expert (SME). While this method can add some helpful insight, it can also lead down the
wrong path if it’s the only method used. Any SME will have their own biases and an
understanding that is limited by their own experience. By using methods such as
contextual inquiry and task analysis, as described in the introduction, the product team
will gain a much richer and broader understanding of the end users. The team will then
be able to spot patterns across many types of customer segments, but also be able to


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understand when something is unique to a particular customer or type. And by involving
product team members in the research process, you naturally create many experts
rather than having to rely on a single source.

Usability issues can compromise patient safety if the interface does not properly prevent
errors, diagnose errors, or allow users to recover from errors.
       “According to one source, more than one-third of medical device incident reports
       have been found to involve use error, and more than half of the recalls can be
       traced to user interface design problems. As a result, the FDA has placed
       increased emphasis on testing the user interfaces of devices in pre-market
       approval, as evidenced by recent publication of the agency’s human factors
       guidance.” ix

Poorly designed EMRs create a significant drop in productivity during the learning phase,
which then increases costs and reduces profit for practices and hospitals. A recent study
by UC Davis on EMR productivity showed that “it takes approximately 4 to 6 months –
called the learning period – for the technology shock to be fully absorbed into the
system.”x Their study also indicated that some specialties such as family medicine and
pediatrics never regained the productivity they had before introducing an EMR. This
lengthy EMR “learning period” is very likely the result of poorly designed software.

Products that truly support Meaningful Use must make MU reporting easy to use and
easy to find. And while meeting Meaningful Use requirements is of immediate concern
for most purchasers, it is not a competitive advantage or a sustainable business model
on its own. Smart buyers realize an EMR is a long-term investment. They will be
looking at how the EMR supports their workflow, how easy it is to learn, and how easy it
is to use. Decision makers who are also end-users will ask questions about how the
EMR software solves their practice’s needs overall and evaluate software on those
criteria.




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TREND #2: INCREASED LEVEL OF PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
A recent Pew Internet study showed that 80% of Internet users gather health information
online.xi Another recent study showed that patients pay more attention and become
more engaged in their healthcare when they have easy access to their medical
information online.xii Patients are increasingly adopting digital health tools such as
patient portals and Personal Health Records (PHRs). Two notable successes are Kaiser
Permanente, which reported in 2010 that over 3 million of their patients are registered for
their My Health Manager, and Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania which reported a 25%
registration rate for myGeisinger as of 2010.xiii


       What	
  health	
  information	
  do	
  people	
  look	
  for	
  online?	
  

     Information about a specific
                                                                                    66!
     disease or medical problem!


   Information about a certain
                                                                            56!
  medical treatment or procedure!


     Information about doctors or
                                                                     44!
      other health professionals!                                                                     Percentage of
                                                                                                      Internet Users!
   Information about hospitals or
                                                             36!
       other medical facilities!


     Information related to health
                                                            33!
              insurance!

                                     0	
     20	
           40	
           60	
           80	
  

                                                      xiv
Data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project


Increased patient engagement can be a key driver in creating a more educated, healthy
patient population. Patient technology tools have the promise of creating a better patient
experience while reducing the administrative overhead for practices. However, careful
attention must be paid to the practice workflow integration points as they relate to patient
self-service options.

For example, if patients are able to send and receive secure messages, that feature has
the potential to increase practice efficiency and increase patient satisfaction. But what if
the system requires the practice staff to log into a separate tool outside their EMR in
order to retrieve messages? Or what if there is no way of easily knowing when a new
message is waiting? Then the workflow breaks down and the potential benefits to both
patients and practices are lost.

In order for patients to adopt and use patient portals, they must feel confident that the
self-service option is equally or more reliable, trustworthy and efficient than picking up


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the phone and calling. Thoughtful design and a transparent approach can help reassure
users into feeling more confident about using the application.

Here are some thoughts to consider when developing patient-friendly technology tools:
   •   Use patient-friendly language and presentation. The solution should not simply
       spit data out of the EMR in the same terminology or format as viewed by
       clinicians.
   •   Minimize data entry for patients. Patients will be frustrated and may abandon
       when asked to re-enter information they have already provided to their doctor’s
       office.
   •   Data is a make or break aspect of the patient experience. The data must be
       accurate, meaningful, and complete. Sharing data across entities is very
       important for patient experience.
   •   Balance privacy and security concerns with considerations for ease of use.
       Patients appreciate the need for data protection, but they will abandon if what
       you are asking is unreasonable or unattainable.
   •   Carefully consider your requirements for password creation, how often users
       have to change their password, and how they recover from forgotten user IDs or
       passwords. Again, balance security concerns with ease of use.
   •   Consider staged authentication. If there are pieces of functionality that have
       lower risk for a patient to access, such as scheduling an appointment, then
       reduce the barriers to use that feature.
   •   Consider what can be accessed without any authentication. Users should be able
       to understand the value of your offering before having to register. There may be
       some tools that should not require registration at all.
   •   Consider patient workflow. For example, if your patient has to receive a
       passcode in the mail or in person before they can use your online tools, it will
       have a negative impact on adoption. Going offline to go online is not in their
       workflow.
   •   Deliver what’s important to patients. What is their intrinsic motivation to use your
       tools? Discover what will deliver value for patients through user research rather
       than going off your own assumptions.
   •   Consider what will make a compelling experience that will make patients want to
       continue to use your product. What will make it engaging, sticky and perhaps
       even fun (where appropriate)? You must understand your users’ goals and align
       them to the design of the product.




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TREND #3: MOBILE HEALTH BECOMES MAINSTREAM
       “We don’t merely adopt mobile devices; we marry them”
       -B.J. Fogg, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

                                                        As of October 2011 there were
                                                        250 million iOS devices activated
                                                        (e.g. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch).
                                                        And the rapidly growing Google
                                                        Android platform reported in
                                                        February 2012 that there are
                                                        over 300 million Android devices
                                                        worldwide and 850,000 are being
                                                        activated daily.xv As of February
                                                        2012, there are about 7,500 apps
                                                        in the medical, health and fitness
                                                        categories on iTunes.

                                                       Luke Wroblewski at
                                                       www.lukew.com has coined the
term “mobile first” – meaning he believes you should design new applications for mobile
before desktop web. Here’s why:
   •   Mobile usage is exploding
   •   Mobile forces you to focus & prioritize. There isn’t room on a 320x480 screen for
       extraneous information or unnecessary elements.
   •   Mobile extends your capabilities. Web browsers are limited in their functionality
       and mobile allows you to harness the power of GPS, camera, accelerometer,
       multi-touch inputs and more.

Recent surveys have indicated more than 80 percent of physicians have an iPhone and
more than 30 percent are using iPads for clinical purposes.xvi Mobile clinical solutions
make perfect sense for physicians because they are highly mobile, constantly moving
between exam rooms or medical facilities. However, most of the largest EMR vendors
still do not offer native mobile solutions for their EMRs. They instead offer remote
access into the regular version of desktop EMR or they direct users to their regular web
application. What’s required is a solution that is designed specifically for touch
interactions and keeps in mind the context of use: mobile.

Designing great mobile solutions requires a thoughtful approach to the mechanics of
touch-based interfaces. The interaction model on a touch device has some fundamental
differences from a desktop solution that uses an external keyboard and mouse. The
finger is not as precise in pointing as a mouse. The Apple iOS interface guidelines
recommend a target no less than 44 x 44 pixels for accuracy of selection – a size that by
desktop proportions could be considered quite large for something like a button. Typing
on a mobile device is much more cumbersome and should be limited to the bare
minimum. And when typing is required, mobile solutions should be coded so that they



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switch to the most appropriate keyboard automatically. For example, if requiring a
phone number input, the mobile app should switch the user to the numeric keyboard
entry automatically. They should also include smart defaults for the most common
options and auto-complete options when typing, especially for difficult terminology such
as prescription drug names.

Applications designed for desktop have limitations when used on mobile devices, such
as no access to right-click options and a significantly smaller screen size. Also, many
desktop web products have not been thoroughly tested on mobile browsers and
therefore are prone to bugs or features not working properly.

Designing for mobile requires a deep understanding of context: what goals and tasks do
your users need to accomplish on mobile? There may be specific features that are more
important on a mobile device and those should be available and prominent. Users will
have some of the same goals as when using your product in other platforms. But often
there are unmet needs that can be addressed and new business opportunities to exploit
by leveraging the unique capabilities of mobile devices, such as the integrated phone,
camera, accelerometer or GPS.

Users have an expectation for mobile apps; they should be purposeful, useful in context
and easy to use – otherwise users will abandon. You add little value by simply having a
mobile version of your product. The value is added in the execution. Through user-
centered design and research, these needs can be uncovered and applications can be
designed for maximum engagement.

Designing for mobile also requires you to make decisions about your platform strategy.
While iOS and Android dominate today’s market, there are many emerging smart phone
platforms that you may not want to exclude. You may need some combination of native
apps for specific platforms and a mobile web solution that can work on any mobile
browser-enabled device. You’ll need to weigh the pros and cons of native and mobile
web approaches from a cost and functionality perspective. Keeping a pulse on what
your target audience is using is critical and can be achieved through using analytics
tools.

You will also need to consider form factor when deciding on which platforms to develop.
The portability and ubiquity of a smart phone makes it useful in many situations,
however, data-rich or image-heavy apps could benefit from the greater screen real
estate on an iPad or other tablet, provided a tablet device makes sense in the context of
use. When designing a tablet solution it is best to have a different user interface from
both your smart phone and desktop web applications. You should design a tablet
interface that is uniquely suited for the combination of the tablet screen size and touch
interface.

Using a design technique called Experience Journey Maps, you can visualize the entire
experience your users have with your products and services. This technique can be
useful to identify gaps where you’re not serving users well, and also highlight
opportunities for new solutions, such as in mobile.



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Joyce Hostyn wrote an excellent blog article called “Visualizing the customer experience
using customer experience journey maps.” In her article she compiled examples from
various companies who used this technique to evolve their user experience. Here she
talks about the benefits of this technique:
       “Journey maps are a tool to help bring the outside world into an organization.
       They can help bring customer stories to life. An entire story; not just one silo or
       function... And as we map out the customer’s story, our organization’s own story
       becomes visible. And often what’s revealed is an incomplete fractured story.”

Before embarking on a mobile app design, redesign, or mobile strategy, here are some
questions you should answer through user research and analytics:
   •   How are my users’ goals different on mobile than when using desktop?
   •   What is the context of use for a mobile solution (as opposed to desktop)?
   •   How do mobile applications fit into the entire user journey?
   •   What user needs are being currently unmet on desktop that can be solved
       through mobile?
   •   What device capabilities will help my users achieve their goals?
   •   What new opportunities does mobile afford my business?
   •   What devices, browsers and platforms are my audience using (in percentages)?


TREND #4: MOVING TOWARDS ACCOUNTABLE CARE
How many times have you gone to a doctor’s office            WHAT IS AN ACO?
and filled out the same health questions on the paper
clipboard? Asking patients to provide the same               An ACO is a network of
information over and over again is not only inefficient      doctors and hospitals that
but also prone to errors and omissions. Also, why is         shares responsibility for
this information not available to other physicians, like     providing care to patients.
specialists, when patients are referred for additional       These programs reward ACO
care? Clearly, our healthcare system in the United           participants that lower their
States is not really a “system” at all. However, new         growth in healthcare costs
models of healthcare delivery are emerging rapidly.          while meeting performance
                                                             standards on quality of care
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of            and service.
2010 established the concept of an Accountable Care
Organization (ACO). These organizations give                 There are ACO programs
providers financial incentives to provide better             sponsored by CMS and also
coordinated care for patients. The intent of ACOs is to      by commercial payers. Many
shift the incentives so that providers are rewarded for      of these programs are still in
value – not volume.                                          the pilot stage as of the first
                                                             quarter of 2012.




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In order to achieve its goals, an ACO will require an increased exchange of information
and robust technology tools, some of which may not exist today. These tools will need
to be built with clinical safety, workflow, and efficiency in mind.

Because accountable care organizations are a new concept with very few
implementations live, the exact operational constructs are still evolving. No doubt, there
will be new workflows defined and existing workflows redefined. Appropriate user
research and usability testing will be essential to ensuring that modification to existing
software and the creation of new software meet the needs of this new healthcare
delivery model.

The table below describes the types of competencies that ACO organizations will need
to have and the technology tools they will need to support them. These tools will need to
be integrated in a coherent way if there is any hope of having a highly effective and
usable system for ACOs. And some of these tools will certainly require mobile support.


Competency                                     Software Requirements

Cross Continuum Management                     HIE; Provider Messaging; Workflow
                                               Management; Shared Care plans; Referral
                                               Tracking; Clinical Decision Support

Population Health Management                   Health Risk Assessment; Predictive
                                               Modeling & Analytics tools; Workflow
                                               Management; Registries; Clinical Decision
                                               Support

Patient Engagement                             Mobile Health; Telehealth; PHRs, Patient
                                               Portals; Surveys

Quality & Performance Reporting                Business Information / Analytics tools;
                                               Dashboards

Administrative and Financial Risk              Risk Modeling Tools; Complex Case
Management Systems                             Management; Benchmarking

Core Infrastructure                            Identity Management; Semantic
                                               Interoperability; Security Framework;
                                               Patient Consent Framework; Controlled
                                               Terminology




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TREND #5: THE RISE OF RETAIL HEALTH CLINICS
                                                         The demand for primary care
                                                         services in the US outmatches the
                                                         availability of primary care
                                                         physicians. At the same time,
                                                         there is an exponential increase in
                                                         healthcare costs and high
                                                         percentage of under-insured
                                                         patients. This climate has created
                                                         a demand from patients for lower
                                                         cost care and more convenient
                                                         access. Retail health clinics are
                                                         one solution. Walgreens, CVS
                                                         and Wal-Mart are the top three
                                                         providers, offering clinics in many
                                                         of their stores.

Retail clinics typically offer basic preventative care services such as flu shots and treat
low severity illnesses such as colds. These services are short in duration and the
patient volume fluctuates and is unpredictable because patients can walk-in.
Technology tools are required that help the staff manage this type of schedule.

A positive patient experience in the retail clinic is dependent on accurately setting
expectations of wait times, creating easy to use self-service tools, and creating an in-
store experience that supports the retail clinic. And mobile solutions that allow patients
to easily find a nearby clinic location and schedule an appointment are necessary to
support the immediacy of these types of health conditions.

Here’s a fictional scenario to depict what a successful retail clinic experience might look
like:

       Jane goes to her local pharmacy to pick up a prescription on her way home from
       work. The cashier at the pharmacy counter asks Jane if she’s had her flu shot
       yet. “It only takes a few minutes,” he says. Jane has been meaning to get one.
       She decides to give it a try if it won’t take too long. She walks to the clinic area
       and checks herself in at the kiosk by answering a few simple questions. The
       kiosk directs Jane to hold her insurance card under its built-in camera. The kiosk
       takes a picture of the insurance card, converts the image to text via OCR (optical
       character recognition) and performs a real-time eligibility check. Jane gets back
       a message that says her insurance plan covers preventative care at 100%,
       including flu shots. Then the kiosk displays a confirmation message, “Thank you.
       We’ll be ready for you in about 5 minutes. We’ll send you a text message when
       it’s time. You can also track your wait time on the monitor.” The monitor, which
       is viewable from practically any part of the store, shows the patient’s first name
       and last initial, how many people are ahead of them and their remaining wait
       time. Jane decides to shop for a few household items while she waits. She
       receives the text message five minutes later as expected. She walks to the clinic


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       area where there’s a dedicated place for her to leave her basket outside the
       exam room. The shot only takes a minute, and then she’s able to finish her
       shopping and head home.

This is just one possible scenario of many. However, it’s important for retail clinics to
have the right tools for patients to get efficient quality care, tools that set the right
expectations and provide appropriate notifications, and to apply a thoughtful integration
of the retail experience.

       “Viewed in isolation, market trends such as the rise of retail and worksite clinics,
       the expansion of home-based care, and the proliferation of information and
       communication technologies can seem unrelated. However, when viewed
       holistically, these trends demonstrate that the landscape of primary care appears
       to be undergoing a significant transformation.”xvii


TREND #6: INCREASED CARE AT HOME SOLUTIONS
The increasing trend towards medical care in the home requires the assistance of new
                                                    technologies that are designed to
                                                    support new care models. Clinical
                                                    and administrative workflow will
                                                    have to be reimagined. This will
                                                    require close collaboration
                                                    between clinical experts and user
                                                    experience designers. Mobile
                                                    technologies will need to play a
                                                    significant role for clinicians and
                                                    administrative staff who are
                                                    operating in this model, either
                                                    traveling from site to site or
                                                    delivering care from remote
                                                    locations.

In addition, patients will be required to interact with new technologies they have never
used before. Telehealth is still a novel concept to most patients, and even fewer have
actual experience with this model. Care at home will require highly intuitive tools that
patients can easily learn on the fly; even patients with low technical skills. These tools
will need to inspire confidence with patients that may be nervous about this type of care.
The tools will need to clearly guide patients on what steps they need to take in order to
follow doctor’s orders and allow them to track their progress. And attention will need to
be paid to patients with short and long-term disabilities to make these tools accessible.

Experience journey mapping, a method discussed in the mobile trend section, could be
useful to help visualize workflow in the Care at Home model. The experience map
would include all the constituents, how their workflow overlaps and where there are
dependencies between parties. It should also include which tools are used for each task
and how those tools support the users’ goals.


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Another method that could be leveraged to test new workflow and care models is
bodystorming.xviii This technique is a way of physically prototyping how a solution will
work in the real world. This model could be used throughout the process to test how the
solution will work for all constituents. It could start early in the design process to include
paper prototypes of the interface or leveraging existing video conferencing tools like
Skype. The goal would be to test out the workflow and tools needed to support Care at
Home. Real patients with little clinical knowledge should be included in this type of
physical prototype. Through these types of bodystorming exercises, the workflow and
user interface could be rapidly tested and iteratively designed before the technology
solutions are fully developed: saving time, money and ultimately creating a better
product.


CONCLUSION
It’s an exciting time in both healthcare and technology. Delivering higher quality, lower
cost care will require new approaches to technology as well as care delivery. A user-
centered design approach is required in order to create the most effective tools that
support ease of use, user satisfaction and clinical safety, and promote adoption by
patients and providers. The convergence of technology advances, healthcare reform,
and patient engagement all create a perfect storm of opportunity. But capitalizing on
opportunity requires innovation. And innovation requires a deep understanding of what’s
important to your end users and delivering that in your offering.

A committed, strategic focus on User Experience will make the difference between
marginal and break-out growth for vendors in the healthcare industry in the next few
years to come.

       “In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s
       the fabric of the curtains or the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the
       meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation
       that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or
       service… Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs


ABOUT POINTCLEAR SOLUTIONS
PointClear's focus is on transforming healthcare delivery through technology innovation
that improves user experience. Our competencies lie at the intersection of product
strategy, technology and user experience. Our user-centered approach to software
development assures that our solutions are accessible, relevant and actionable - driving
user adoption, promoting human-centered delivery of professional healthcare, and
ultimately creating business value for our clients. We serve provider, payer,
pharmaceutical, public health organizations and the technology market that supports
them.




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Six Healthcare Trends

  • 1. SIX HEALTHCARE TRENDS AND WHY USER EXPERIENCE MATTERS PointClear Solutions | March 2012 Dawn Nidy, Senior User Experience Strategist Rodney M. Hamilton, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................................... 2 Trend #1: Increased Adoption of Electronic Medical Records ...................................... 4 Trend #2: Increased Level of Patient Engagement ....................................................... 6 Trend #3: Mobile Health Becomes Mainstream ............................................................ 8 Trend #4: Moving Towards Accountable Care ............................................................ 10 Trend #5: The Rise of Retail Health Clinics ................................................................ 12 Trend #6: Increased Care at Home Solutions ............................................................. 13 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 14 About PointClear Solutions ......................................................................................... 14 References .................................................................................................................. 15
  • 2.   INTRODUCTION “Usability” has increasingly become a topic of interest in healthcare with the publication of the NIST guidelinesi for EMR usability and the tie between those guidelines and Meaningful Use Phase 2 requirements. Therefore, usability is no longer a topic that can be ignored. However, we at PointClear Solutions would like to broaden the discussion to include, but not be limited by the term “usability.” We would like to discuss the discipline and concept of “User Experience” as it relates to current healthcare topics. A great user experience is dependent on a high degree of usability, but it’s also more than that. Let’s take a look at the definitions from The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Usability “the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use” (ISO 9241-11) User Experience “a person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service.” (ISO 9241-210) Usability testing helps determine the usability of an application. It often measures how a user interface performs in task completion rate (what percentage of users can complete a task) or time on task (how long a particular task takes). Experts can also perform evaluations against best practices (heuristics). Usability testing is useful as a method of measuring usability and identifying areas to improve. However, if you don’t think about a user-centered approach until usability testing is conducted on a fully built product, you are too late. Usability testing must be performed on a completed design, or at least, a prototype of a design. Usability testing is also often performed in a “usability lab” which takes the user out of their own context; this can affect the interpretation of found usability issues. User-Centered Design (UCD) is an approach and set of methods that aid user experience practitioners in creating a usable product and great user experience. In UCD, user research must begin at the start of your project to assess user needs, goals, and workflow. Two methods we use at the beginning of a project are contextual inquiry and task analysis. The outcomes of these methods can inform product decisions along the entire software development lifecycle. Contextual inquiry is a master/apprentice model of observing and asking questions to learn how users go about their work. It involves: Page 2 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 3.   • Context – interviewing users in their own environments using the artifacts that are part of their daily work • Partnership – a tone of collaborative exploration and alternating between observation and discussion • Interpretation – reading between the lines to make connections between behavior, environment, and what users say • Focus – subtle direction of the interview to capture details relevant to designii Task analysis involves a series of open-ended interviews to develop a detailed understanding of how people perform specific tasks. With this method we seek to understand: • Why the user is performing the task (goal) • The frequency and importance of the task • Cues – what initiates or prompts the task • Dependencies – what must be in place to perform, and what is dependent on task completion • The people involved – roles and responsibilities • Specific actions performed • Decisions made and information used to support decisions • Errors and exception cases and how they are corrected Simply measuring the usability of tasks in your application, while very important, is not enough. Creating a great user experience requires a deep understanding of the end users that can only be gained through direct observation in the users’ own context. Usability testing will uncover aspects of the execution that should be corrected and help you understand the priority of each issue. But usability testing does not replace the need for a foundation of user understanding built into the product from the start. If you are a vendor, you’ll be glad to know there are intrinsic financial benefits to following a user-centered approach. An ROI analysis by Karat indicated a $10 return on each dollar invested in usabilityiii. Products that are created with a user-centered approach have reduced costs in support, training, and maintenance (fewer change requests). In addition, the cost to correct a problem increases the further you are in the development process. A user-centered approach combines up-front user research with usability testing on prototypes rather than fully developed systems, as well as continued measurement and improvement throughout the product lifecycle. Incorporating user experience design will add value at any point in the process, but the value will diminish the later it is applied in the project. It costs 10 times as much to fix the same design problem if not found until the development phase. And it costs a staggering 100 times as more to fix the same problem in design if found after deployment. iv Detecting these issues earlier in the Page 3 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 4.   process or preventing them through user-centered design is a cost-effective approach to developing products and services. In this paper, we’ll talk about how user-centered design can benefit specific areas of the healthcare market that are relevant today. TREND #1: INCREASED ADOPTION OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS Electronic Medical Records (EMR) have the potential to transform the healthcare industry by increasing the access to and exchange of clinical information by medical providers and patients. However, there are significant challenges in implementing EMRs. Some of them are directly related to the usability and user experience of the software. “Two of the five major barriers to adoption of healthcare information and communications technology in the US are ‘lack of user friendly, integrated technology solutions’ and ‘lack of end-user acceptance’.” v Creating the right tools for clinicians requires a deep understanding of the mental model of the end users. In 2011, Stead and Linvi evaluated premier EMRs in the United States and concluded that even these systems did not provide the required cognitive support for clinicians (i.e., tools for thinking about and solving health problems). Cognitive support may include designs to provide an overview or summary of the patient, information “at a glance,” intuitive designs and tailored support for clinicians in specific contexts.vii “Designing something requires that you completely understand what a person wants to get done. Empathy with a person is distinct from studying how a person uses something. Empathy extends to knowing what the person wants to accomplish regardless of whether she has or is aware of the thing you are designing. You need to know the person’s goals and what procedure and philosophy she follows to accomplish them.” viii A typical method that vendors use to understand workflow is to employ a Subject Matter Expert (SME). While this method can add some helpful insight, it can also lead down the wrong path if it’s the only method used. Any SME will have their own biases and an understanding that is limited by their own experience. By using methods such as contextual inquiry and task analysis, as described in the introduction, the product team will gain a much richer and broader understanding of the end users. The team will then be able to spot patterns across many types of customer segments, but also be able to Page 4 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 5.   understand when something is unique to a particular customer or type. And by involving product team members in the research process, you naturally create many experts rather than having to rely on a single source. Usability issues can compromise patient safety if the interface does not properly prevent errors, diagnose errors, or allow users to recover from errors. “According to one source, more than one-third of medical device incident reports have been found to involve use error, and more than half of the recalls can be traced to user interface design problems. As a result, the FDA has placed increased emphasis on testing the user interfaces of devices in pre-market approval, as evidenced by recent publication of the agency’s human factors guidance.” ix Poorly designed EMRs create a significant drop in productivity during the learning phase, which then increases costs and reduces profit for practices and hospitals. A recent study by UC Davis on EMR productivity showed that “it takes approximately 4 to 6 months – called the learning period – for the technology shock to be fully absorbed into the system.”x Their study also indicated that some specialties such as family medicine and pediatrics never regained the productivity they had before introducing an EMR. This lengthy EMR “learning period” is very likely the result of poorly designed software. Products that truly support Meaningful Use must make MU reporting easy to use and easy to find. And while meeting Meaningful Use requirements is of immediate concern for most purchasers, it is not a competitive advantage or a sustainable business model on its own. Smart buyers realize an EMR is a long-term investment. They will be looking at how the EMR supports their workflow, how easy it is to learn, and how easy it is to use. Decision makers who are also end-users will ask questions about how the EMR software solves their practice’s needs overall and evaluate software on those criteria. Page 5 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 6.   TREND #2: INCREASED LEVEL OF PATIENT ENGAGEMENT A recent Pew Internet study showed that 80% of Internet users gather health information online.xi Another recent study showed that patients pay more attention and become more engaged in their healthcare when they have easy access to their medical information online.xii Patients are increasingly adopting digital health tools such as patient portals and Personal Health Records (PHRs). Two notable successes are Kaiser Permanente, which reported in 2010 that over 3 million of their patients are registered for their My Health Manager, and Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania which reported a 25% registration rate for myGeisinger as of 2010.xiii What  health  information  do  people  look  for  online?   Information about a specific 66! disease or medical problem! Information about a certain 56! medical treatment or procedure! Information about doctors or 44! other health professionals! Percentage of Internet Users! Information about hospitals or 36! other medical facilities! Information related to health 33! insurance! 0   20   40   60   80   xiv Data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project Increased patient engagement can be a key driver in creating a more educated, healthy patient population. Patient technology tools have the promise of creating a better patient experience while reducing the administrative overhead for practices. However, careful attention must be paid to the practice workflow integration points as they relate to patient self-service options. For example, if patients are able to send and receive secure messages, that feature has the potential to increase practice efficiency and increase patient satisfaction. But what if the system requires the practice staff to log into a separate tool outside their EMR in order to retrieve messages? Or what if there is no way of easily knowing when a new message is waiting? Then the workflow breaks down and the potential benefits to both patients and practices are lost. In order for patients to adopt and use patient portals, they must feel confident that the self-service option is equally or more reliable, trustworthy and efficient than picking up Page 6 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 7.   the phone and calling. Thoughtful design and a transparent approach can help reassure users into feeling more confident about using the application. Here are some thoughts to consider when developing patient-friendly technology tools: • Use patient-friendly language and presentation. The solution should not simply spit data out of the EMR in the same terminology or format as viewed by clinicians. • Minimize data entry for patients. Patients will be frustrated and may abandon when asked to re-enter information they have already provided to their doctor’s office. • Data is a make or break aspect of the patient experience. The data must be accurate, meaningful, and complete. Sharing data across entities is very important for patient experience. • Balance privacy and security concerns with considerations for ease of use. Patients appreciate the need for data protection, but they will abandon if what you are asking is unreasonable or unattainable. • Carefully consider your requirements for password creation, how often users have to change their password, and how they recover from forgotten user IDs or passwords. Again, balance security concerns with ease of use. • Consider staged authentication. If there are pieces of functionality that have lower risk for a patient to access, such as scheduling an appointment, then reduce the barriers to use that feature. • Consider what can be accessed without any authentication. Users should be able to understand the value of your offering before having to register. There may be some tools that should not require registration at all. • Consider patient workflow. For example, if your patient has to receive a passcode in the mail or in person before they can use your online tools, it will have a negative impact on adoption. Going offline to go online is not in their workflow. • Deliver what’s important to patients. What is their intrinsic motivation to use your tools? Discover what will deliver value for patients through user research rather than going off your own assumptions. • Consider what will make a compelling experience that will make patients want to continue to use your product. What will make it engaging, sticky and perhaps even fun (where appropriate)? You must understand your users’ goals and align them to the design of the product. Page 7 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 8.   TREND #3: MOBILE HEALTH BECOMES MAINSTREAM “We don’t merely adopt mobile devices; we marry them” -B.J. Fogg, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab As of October 2011 there were 250 million iOS devices activated (e.g. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). And the rapidly growing Google Android platform reported in February 2012 that there are over 300 million Android devices worldwide and 850,000 are being activated daily.xv As of February 2012, there are about 7,500 apps in the medical, health and fitness categories on iTunes. Luke Wroblewski at www.lukew.com has coined the term “mobile first” – meaning he believes you should design new applications for mobile before desktop web. Here’s why: • Mobile usage is exploding • Mobile forces you to focus & prioritize. There isn’t room on a 320x480 screen for extraneous information or unnecessary elements. • Mobile extends your capabilities. Web browsers are limited in their functionality and mobile allows you to harness the power of GPS, camera, accelerometer, multi-touch inputs and more. Recent surveys have indicated more than 80 percent of physicians have an iPhone and more than 30 percent are using iPads for clinical purposes.xvi Mobile clinical solutions make perfect sense for physicians because they are highly mobile, constantly moving between exam rooms or medical facilities. However, most of the largest EMR vendors still do not offer native mobile solutions for their EMRs. They instead offer remote access into the regular version of desktop EMR or they direct users to their regular web application. What’s required is a solution that is designed specifically for touch interactions and keeps in mind the context of use: mobile. Designing great mobile solutions requires a thoughtful approach to the mechanics of touch-based interfaces. The interaction model on a touch device has some fundamental differences from a desktop solution that uses an external keyboard and mouse. The finger is not as precise in pointing as a mouse. The Apple iOS interface guidelines recommend a target no less than 44 x 44 pixels for accuracy of selection – a size that by desktop proportions could be considered quite large for something like a button. Typing on a mobile device is much more cumbersome and should be limited to the bare minimum. And when typing is required, mobile solutions should be coded so that they Page 8 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 9.   switch to the most appropriate keyboard automatically. For example, if requiring a phone number input, the mobile app should switch the user to the numeric keyboard entry automatically. They should also include smart defaults for the most common options and auto-complete options when typing, especially for difficult terminology such as prescription drug names. Applications designed for desktop have limitations when used on mobile devices, such as no access to right-click options and a significantly smaller screen size. Also, many desktop web products have not been thoroughly tested on mobile browsers and therefore are prone to bugs or features not working properly. Designing for mobile requires a deep understanding of context: what goals and tasks do your users need to accomplish on mobile? There may be specific features that are more important on a mobile device and those should be available and prominent. Users will have some of the same goals as when using your product in other platforms. But often there are unmet needs that can be addressed and new business opportunities to exploit by leveraging the unique capabilities of mobile devices, such as the integrated phone, camera, accelerometer or GPS. Users have an expectation for mobile apps; they should be purposeful, useful in context and easy to use – otherwise users will abandon. You add little value by simply having a mobile version of your product. The value is added in the execution. Through user- centered design and research, these needs can be uncovered and applications can be designed for maximum engagement. Designing for mobile also requires you to make decisions about your platform strategy. While iOS and Android dominate today’s market, there are many emerging smart phone platforms that you may not want to exclude. You may need some combination of native apps for specific platforms and a mobile web solution that can work on any mobile browser-enabled device. You’ll need to weigh the pros and cons of native and mobile web approaches from a cost and functionality perspective. Keeping a pulse on what your target audience is using is critical and can be achieved through using analytics tools. You will also need to consider form factor when deciding on which platforms to develop. The portability and ubiquity of a smart phone makes it useful in many situations, however, data-rich or image-heavy apps could benefit from the greater screen real estate on an iPad or other tablet, provided a tablet device makes sense in the context of use. When designing a tablet solution it is best to have a different user interface from both your smart phone and desktop web applications. You should design a tablet interface that is uniquely suited for the combination of the tablet screen size and touch interface. Using a design technique called Experience Journey Maps, you can visualize the entire experience your users have with your products and services. This technique can be useful to identify gaps where you’re not serving users well, and also highlight opportunities for new solutions, such as in mobile. Page 9 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 10.   Joyce Hostyn wrote an excellent blog article called “Visualizing the customer experience using customer experience journey maps.” In her article she compiled examples from various companies who used this technique to evolve their user experience. Here she talks about the benefits of this technique: “Journey maps are a tool to help bring the outside world into an organization. They can help bring customer stories to life. An entire story; not just one silo or function... And as we map out the customer’s story, our organization’s own story becomes visible. And often what’s revealed is an incomplete fractured story.” Before embarking on a mobile app design, redesign, or mobile strategy, here are some questions you should answer through user research and analytics: • How are my users’ goals different on mobile than when using desktop? • What is the context of use for a mobile solution (as opposed to desktop)? • How do mobile applications fit into the entire user journey? • What user needs are being currently unmet on desktop that can be solved through mobile? • What device capabilities will help my users achieve their goals? • What new opportunities does mobile afford my business? • What devices, browsers and platforms are my audience using (in percentages)? TREND #4: MOVING TOWARDS ACCOUNTABLE CARE How many times have you gone to a doctor’s office WHAT IS AN ACO? and filled out the same health questions on the paper clipboard? Asking patients to provide the same An ACO is a network of information over and over again is not only inefficient doctors and hospitals that but also prone to errors and omissions. Also, why is shares responsibility for this information not available to other physicians, like providing care to patients. specialists, when patients are referred for additional These programs reward ACO care? Clearly, our healthcare system in the United participants that lower their States is not really a “system” at all. However, new growth in healthcare costs models of healthcare delivery are emerging rapidly. while meeting performance standards on quality of care The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of and service. 2010 established the concept of an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). These organizations give There are ACO programs providers financial incentives to provide better sponsored by CMS and also coordinated care for patients. The intent of ACOs is to by commercial payers. Many shift the incentives so that providers are rewarded for of these programs are still in value – not volume. the pilot stage as of the first quarter of 2012. Page 10 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 11.   In order to achieve its goals, an ACO will require an increased exchange of information and robust technology tools, some of which may not exist today. These tools will need to be built with clinical safety, workflow, and efficiency in mind. Because accountable care organizations are a new concept with very few implementations live, the exact operational constructs are still evolving. No doubt, there will be new workflows defined and existing workflows redefined. Appropriate user research and usability testing will be essential to ensuring that modification to existing software and the creation of new software meet the needs of this new healthcare delivery model. The table below describes the types of competencies that ACO organizations will need to have and the technology tools they will need to support them. These tools will need to be integrated in a coherent way if there is any hope of having a highly effective and usable system for ACOs. And some of these tools will certainly require mobile support. Competency Software Requirements Cross Continuum Management HIE; Provider Messaging; Workflow Management; Shared Care plans; Referral Tracking; Clinical Decision Support Population Health Management Health Risk Assessment; Predictive Modeling & Analytics tools; Workflow Management; Registries; Clinical Decision Support Patient Engagement Mobile Health; Telehealth; PHRs, Patient Portals; Surveys Quality & Performance Reporting Business Information / Analytics tools; Dashboards Administrative and Financial Risk Risk Modeling Tools; Complex Case Management Systems Management; Benchmarking Core Infrastructure Identity Management; Semantic Interoperability; Security Framework; Patient Consent Framework; Controlled Terminology Page 11 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 12.   TREND #5: THE RISE OF RETAIL HEALTH CLINICS The demand for primary care services in the US outmatches the availability of primary care physicians. At the same time, there is an exponential increase in healthcare costs and high percentage of under-insured patients. This climate has created a demand from patients for lower cost care and more convenient access. Retail health clinics are one solution. Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart are the top three providers, offering clinics in many of their stores. Retail clinics typically offer basic preventative care services such as flu shots and treat low severity illnesses such as colds. These services are short in duration and the patient volume fluctuates and is unpredictable because patients can walk-in. Technology tools are required that help the staff manage this type of schedule. A positive patient experience in the retail clinic is dependent on accurately setting expectations of wait times, creating easy to use self-service tools, and creating an in- store experience that supports the retail clinic. And mobile solutions that allow patients to easily find a nearby clinic location and schedule an appointment are necessary to support the immediacy of these types of health conditions. Here’s a fictional scenario to depict what a successful retail clinic experience might look like: Jane goes to her local pharmacy to pick up a prescription on her way home from work. The cashier at the pharmacy counter asks Jane if she’s had her flu shot yet. “It only takes a few minutes,” he says. Jane has been meaning to get one. She decides to give it a try if it won’t take too long. She walks to the clinic area and checks herself in at the kiosk by answering a few simple questions. The kiosk directs Jane to hold her insurance card under its built-in camera. The kiosk takes a picture of the insurance card, converts the image to text via OCR (optical character recognition) and performs a real-time eligibility check. Jane gets back a message that says her insurance plan covers preventative care at 100%, including flu shots. Then the kiosk displays a confirmation message, “Thank you. We’ll be ready for you in about 5 minutes. We’ll send you a text message when it’s time. You can also track your wait time on the monitor.” The monitor, which is viewable from practically any part of the store, shows the patient’s first name and last initial, how many people are ahead of them and their remaining wait time. Jane decides to shop for a few household items while she waits. She receives the text message five minutes later as expected. She walks to the clinic Page 12 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 13.   area where there’s a dedicated place for her to leave her basket outside the exam room. The shot only takes a minute, and then she’s able to finish her shopping and head home. This is just one possible scenario of many. However, it’s important for retail clinics to have the right tools for patients to get efficient quality care, tools that set the right expectations and provide appropriate notifications, and to apply a thoughtful integration of the retail experience. “Viewed in isolation, market trends such as the rise of retail and worksite clinics, the expansion of home-based care, and the proliferation of information and communication technologies can seem unrelated. However, when viewed holistically, these trends demonstrate that the landscape of primary care appears to be undergoing a significant transformation.”xvii TREND #6: INCREASED CARE AT HOME SOLUTIONS The increasing trend towards medical care in the home requires the assistance of new technologies that are designed to support new care models. Clinical and administrative workflow will have to be reimagined. This will require close collaboration between clinical experts and user experience designers. Mobile technologies will need to play a significant role for clinicians and administrative staff who are operating in this model, either traveling from site to site or delivering care from remote locations. In addition, patients will be required to interact with new technologies they have never used before. Telehealth is still a novel concept to most patients, and even fewer have actual experience with this model. Care at home will require highly intuitive tools that patients can easily learn on the fly; even patients with low technical skills. These tools will need to inspire confidence with patients that may be nervous about this type of care. The tools will need to clearly guide patients on what steps they need to take in order to follow doctor’s orders and allow them to track their progress. And attention will need to be paid to patients with short and long-term disabilities to make these tools accessible. Experience journey mapping, a method discussed in the mobile trend section, could be useful to help visualize workflow in the Care at Home model. The experience map would include all the constituents, how their workflow overlaps and where there are dependencies between parties. It should also include which tools are used for each task and how those tools support the users’ goals. Page 13 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
  • 14.   Another method that could be leveraged to test new workflow and care models is bodystorming.xviii This technique is a way of physically prototyping how a solution will work in the real world. This model could be used throughout the process to test how the solution will work for all constituents. It could start early in the design process to include paper prototypes of the interface or leveraging existing video conferencing tools like Skype. The goal would be to test out the workflow and tools needed to support Care at Home. Real patients with little clinical knowledge should be included in this type of physical prototype. Through these types of bodystorming exercises, the workflow and user interface could be rapidly tested and iteratively designed before the technology solutions are fully developed: saving time, money and ultimately creating a better product. CONCLUSION It’s an exciting time in both healthcare and technology. Delivering higher quality, lower cost care will require new approaches to technology as well as care delivery. A user- centered design approach is required in order to create the most effective tools that support ease of use, user satisfaction and clinical safety, and promote adoption by patients and providers. The convergence of technology advances, healthcare reform, and patient engagement all create a perfect storm of opportunity. But capitalizing on opportunity requires innovation. And innovation requires a deep understanding of what’s important to your end users and delivering that in your offering. A committed, strategic focus on User Experience will make the difference between marginal and break-out growth for vendors in the healthcare industry in the next few years to come. “In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains or the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service… Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs ABOUT POINTCLEAR SOLUTIONS PointClear's focus is on transforming healthcare delivery through technology innovation that improves user experience. Our competencies lie at the intersection of product strategy, technology and user experience. Our user-centered approach to software development assures that our solutions are accessible, relevant and actionable - driving user adoption, promoting human-centered delivery of professional healthcare, and ultimately creating business value for our clients. We serve provider, payer, pharmaceutical, public health organizations and the technology market that supports them. Page 14 of 15 www.pointclearsolutions.com PointClear Solutions
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