UX Lead

Healthcare: Tablet Experience

Deloitte Digital | Kaiser Permanente

Healthcare: Tablet Experience: Total Health | Tablet Experience

Overview

Led the mobile UX strategy for Kaiser Permanente's Total Health platform while consulting at Deloitte Digital, redesigning how 12 million members manage wellness programs on tablet devices.

Project

Total Health | Tablet Experience

Role

UX Lead

Period

2011–2013

Objectives

  • Define and own the end-to-end mobile UX strategy for patient wellness
  • Reduce friction in health program enrollment and daily tracking
  • Establish interaction patterns for a tablet-first healthcare experience
  • Deliver a feature prioritization framework across chronic, episodic, and wellness patient segments

Approach & Activities

  • Created user personas and journey maps for chronic condition management, episodic care, and wellness tracking
  • Designed wireframes and storyboards covering remote patient monitoring, thresholds and alerts, and biometric syncing
  • Mapped feature prioritization across three patient segments: chronic, episodic, and wellness
  • Delivered annotated prototypes and mockups for engineering handoff within Deloitte Digital's agile delivery model
  • Conducted stakeholder reviews with Kaiser's digital health product team to validate design direction

Challenges & Lessons

  • Broad patient demographic required designing for wide-ranging technical literacy and accessibility needs
  • Healthcare data privacy requirements (HIPAA) constrained data display and sharing patterns
  • Three distinct patient segments (chronic, episodic, and wellness) required differentiated but cohesive experiences

Impact

UX strategy defined the tablet experience for Kaiser's 12 million member patient population

Remote patient monitoring workflows reduced manual data entry for chronic condition management

Feature matrix and phased roadmap adopted by Kaiser's digital health product team

Design Work

Feature prioritization | chronic, episodic, and wellness segments mapped to Phase 1 scope
User persona | Eric Walters, chronic condition management (Type II Diabetes)
Remote patient monitoring: Bluetooth device syncing, biometric tracking, and medical records
Video appointments: telehealth scenario with medication management and pharmacy integration
Exercise program | guided workouts, progress tracking, and wellness journaling

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