The Problem

Patients with multiple conditions receive separate care plans for each condition. This results in redundant and conflicting information given. Care plans are also unable to adjust to the patient’s fluctuating lifestyle.

The Outcome

A system study visualizing an interactive care plan (ICP) that addresses a wide variety of patients with multiple conditions and shows how it can adapt and interact with patient medical and life events

Investigation of patient needs

I led interviews with stakeholders and gathered information on patient motivations and desires. Five core patient needs were identified.

1. Need a way to integrate my care into my life

2. I need to know what to do

3. I need to make sense of all this (health and healthcare)

4. I need to communicate with my health team

5. I need to communicate with my family, friends, and peers

Analysis of current care plans

1. Focused on what to do information

2. Limited interactive elements

3. Geared towards singular conditions

4. No consideration of other medical events

Versatility

Serve a wide range of patients with multiple conditions

Integration

Improve how care plans integrate within a patient’s daily life

Interactivity

Demonstrate how interactive care plans can interact with patient life events

Serves a wide range of patients

System allows for curation of an individualized plan of care using patient preferences, knowledge of current conditions, medications, and predictive analytics

Integrates care into life

By using the patient baseline and preferences and system’s ability to recognize life patterns, the ICP is able to adapt and modify itself to the patients lifestyle

Life events interact with care plan

Using the escalation and de-escalation process, care is continuously adjusting to a patient’s current state of medical and life circumstances