Decision support / operational efficiency
Transforming Real-Time Patient Data into
a Decision-Support SYSTEM
Company
Audacious Inquiry
A healthcare interoperability and SaaS company that delivers real-time patient event and clinical data to large health systems, payors, and government agencies.

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Product Impact
100%
Client retentions
Product Impact
+8
New client win
Product Impact
Established a user research council for continuous user engagement
My Role

As the company’s first Lead UX Designer, I led the end-to-end redesign of PROMPT and helped establish design as a strategic capability within the organization. I conducted user research across payors, ACOs, and healthcare providers; defined the information architecture, interaction model, and navigation framework; and partnered with product, engineering, clinical SMEs, and technical managers to align user needs, system constraints, and business goals. I established ongoing user engagement through a customer research council and Pendo integration. In parallel, I built the company’s first design system in Figma and Storybook, accelerating delivery and improving design and development efficiency by approximately 70%.

Executive Summary
Scope
Led the end-to-end redesign of PROMPT, transforming a legacy healthcare application into a scalable decision-support platform for payors, ACOs, and healthcare providers.
Core Problem
The legacy experience made it difficult to filter large patient populations, access complete clinical context, and quickly identify patients requiring immediate intervention, while limiting the product’s scalability and competitiveness.
Approach
Combined user research, co-creation, and rapid prototyping to transform customer feedback into a modern interaction model centered on precise targeting and prioritizing  high-risk patients, and integrated clinical context.
Impact
Improved customer satisfaction and product marketability, secured sponsorship from CRISP, established ongoing user feedback channels, and contributed to 100% client renewals and 8 new enterprise account wins.
Context & Problem

The legacy experience made it difficult to filter large patient populations, access complete clinical context, and identify who required immediate intervention. Data inconsistencies and performance limitations reduced confidence and scalability, while the outdated interaction model constrained product development and weakened the product’s ability to attract new customers.

Large-scale data management for timely patient prioritization
Legacy UX constraints on product growth and innovation
Fragmented Clinical Context for Confident Decision Making
Research Insight

To understand how PROMPT was used across different organizations, I conducted interviews with payors, accountable care organizations (ACOs), healthcare providers, and engagement managers. The research combined heuristic evaluation, story mapping, and contextual interviews to understand user uses the PROMPT and where the existing experience created friction. Early prototypes were then tested with the same interview participants, leading to significant refinements before development.

What We Learned
A label for a single diagnosis can vary widely, so we export records to make sure we capture every patient.”
Filtering Was Mission-Critical, but Difficult to Use
Improved customer satisfaction and product marketability, secured sponsorship from CRISP, established ongoing user feedback channels, and contributed to 100% client renewals and 8 new enterprise account wins.
Bombarded with too many notifications and not all of them are relevant to decision making."
Users Needed Processed and Aggregated Data
Although organizations used PROMPT for different purposes, all shared one goal: identifying the right patients based on specific criteria. The challenge was not access to data, but turning large volumes of notifications into actionable information.
Clinical details are often missing, adding two to four extra steps for every patient”
Clinical Context Was Fragmented Across Systems
PROMPT provided event notifications, but users still needed to search EMR systems or contact facilities to gather diagnoses, discharge instructions, and other details required to plan care.
Ideate Solution

From research, I created three major personas to develop our solution ideas through ideation workshop with product, engineers, and subject matter expertise from the persona user groups. I then went back to users to test early design solutions

UX Strategy

The redesign was guided by four principles that translated large volumes of real-time patient data into a more actionable and scalable product experience.

Key Decisions
Decision
From notification viewer into a decision-support platform
Insight
Precise targeting and efficient prioritization for high-risk patient  are difficult with ~1M daily patient event notifications
Impact
Enabled users to focus immediately on the patients most likely to benefit from timely intervention.
Decision
Consolidate Clinical Context Into a Single Workspace
Insight
equire users to search EMR systems and contacted facilities to gather missing information, adding two to four extra steps per patient review.
Impact
Reduced duplicate work and gave users the clinical context needed to act confidently in a single system.
Decision
Transform  Filtering Into a Strategic Asset
Introduced Patient Summary & CCD for full patient medical profile
Insight
Filters in legacy system was complex that it required training and often forced teams to export data for manual analysis.
Impact
Made sophisticated targeting accessible to non-technical users and turned filters into reusable operational workflows.
Decision
Build a Scalable Interaction System Alongside the Product
Insight
A single product redesign would not solve broader usability and consistency issues across the platform. The organization needed a shared interaction foundation.
Impact
Improved design and engineering efficiency by over 70%, accelerated feature delivery, and established the foundation for a cohesive multi-product platform.
DeVelop SOlution
Design solution for testing and solution alignment
Created design based on research and ideation to test with users and cross-functional teams.
TESTED FOR
Usability
User confidence meeting their goal
Correct keyword and keyword prioritization
UI component adequately support user task and workflows
Labels and icons are easily recognizable
Tabular design for improved information visibility and flexibility.
  • keyword identification & prioritization
  • Levels of information that aligns with user workflow
Broken out filter by filter features and added visibility during filter creation and application.

Addition to applying filters, user can also search patients using patient name or MRN , and create views by using group and sort patient event information.
Provide fuller patient profile and processed patient event details to improve decision-making.

Group patient information into segmented view within a modal to provide focused visual space and scalability to support wide range of patient medical profile information.
Key Takeaway from Testings
  • According to users and SMEs, average number of save filters is 20~ and some of the complex saved filters can have 25+ individual filter items inside, they need higher visibility and flexibility in managing and using filters
  • Speed of navigating across different patient profile is more important than isolated focus view to users. 
They want ways to navigate freely to other patient data linearly and non-linearly.
Solving System & Data Challenges

Some of the most important design decisions addressed data integrity and scalability challenges that directly affected filter accuracy and system performance. Working closely with engineering and technical managers, we developed product and operational solutions that improved both platform reliability and user efficiency.

Normalizing Inconsistent Clinical Terminology
External facilities often entered diagnoses as free text, making reliable filtering difficult. We introduced a process to identify undefined terms, route them for review, and add them to the system, while also enabling users to enter custom search terms directly within filters.
Optimizing Large-Scale Data Workflows
Payors monitored populations approaching 1M+ patient records per day, making full data loads and exports impractical. Smart default date ranges reduced initial system load, and configurable exports allowed users to retrieve only the data they needed.
Final Design

Made further refinement to the design based on user input from testing and technical constraints. The new design provides robust navigation and interactions across the new PROMPT that supports user workflows through improved filter and access to fuller patient medical information.

Results & IMpact

The redesign transformed PROMPT from a notification feed into a scalable decision-support platform that improved customer satisfaction, strengthened product marketability, and established a foundation for continued product growth.

BUSiness Impact
100% client renewal
8 new enterprise account wins
Sponsorship from CRISP
Product Impact
Reimagined filtering as a strategic capability
Consolidated clinical context into Patient Summary and Event Details
Improved performance for datasets approaching 1M+ records/day
Organizational Impact
Established a customer research council
Helped institutionalize user-centered design
Built the first design system, improving design & development efficiency by ~70%
Key Takeaways

PROMPT reinforced that the most impactful design work often happens beyond the interface. The core challenges were not visual, but rooted in inconsistent source data, large-scale performance constraints, and fragmented clinical workflows. By defining what could be solved within the product and partnering with engineering and technical teams, we transformed raw patient notifications into a scalable decision-support platform that helped healthcare organizations identify the right patients and intervene with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence.