Patient Pathways - early prototype

Lalatendu and I have been hard at work (and it's spring break!) researching and developing an early prototype for our patient itinerary card.

Our project has changed a lot since our days over at Vox. Nowadays we're focusing on patient pathways at Hillman Cancer Center. Cancer patients at Hillman usually have repeat visits---some every 3 months, some every day for several weeks, etc.---and what happens during those visits often varies, from consultations and medication all the way up to transfusions and chemotherapy.

We've been working with the Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation at UPMC to develop a generalized itinerary for patients, listing information about locations, treatment procedures, and wait times as well as recommendations for leisure activities in and around the hospital. We've interviewed and chatted with staff, patients, and visitors, and have developed this early prototype to kickstart the patient testing this week:


We'll be meeting with our contacts over at the Center for Quality Improvement tomorrow morning to see what they think, so I'd better get some sleep. Hopefully they'll want to move ahead with this, as we've already generated some really great ideas about how to move this towards a digital software format that'll hopefully wow the pants off Microsoft.

For a closer look and more detailed information about our itinerary card, please view our preliminary presentation (pdf).