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The hospital is looking for a digital application to help nurses track medications for patients. Specifically, they need a way for nurses to see what medications a patient has already taken and enter new medications. The application needs to include basic patient and doctor information as well as medication details. Designers are asked to create personas, wireframes, prototypes and a case study on Medium explaining their design process and choices.

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Design Challenge

The hospital is looking for a digital application to help nurses track medications for patients. Specifically, they need a way for nurses to see what medications a patient has already taken and enter new medications. The application needs to include basic patient and doctor information as well as medication details. Designers are asked to create personas, wireframes, prototypes and a case study on Medium explaining their design process and choices.

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Design Challenge

Scenario
A hospital nurse has just visited a patient and needs to give him a medication. The
patient has not taken the medication before, but needs to take the medication 4 more
times in the next 48 hours. The patient is currently taking 3 other medications. One
medication is for a chronic condition, and the other two medications were first given
when the patient arrived to the facility.

Project outline
Keeping in mind the above scenario, we want you to design a digital application for
inpatient nursing staff to track the medication given to a patient. For this exercise:

• Focus only on the profile of a single patient.


• The nurse should have access to basic patient information.
• The user should have the ability to enter a medication taken, and also learn what
medication has already been given to the patient.

Your solution should handle at least the following:

• Patient identifiers
• Doctor identifiers
• Medication details
• Nurse details

A patient is expected to take, on average, 3 to 8 types of medication.

Deliverables
You have the option to design for any device and modality you see fit to solve the
problem. Likewise, you have the freedom to inform your design and create your design in
whatever method you see fit.

Possibilities include:

• Personas
• Sketches
• Affinity diagrams
• Wireframes
• Prototypes
• Workflow diagrams
• Testing/validation results
• Journey maps
• Storyboards
• Opportunity Canvas
• Others we haven’t thought of

We do, however, request that you show us your design process in detail and that you
explain why you chose specific deliverables in the format of a case study on Medium
(https://medium.com/). Share your case study as a draft with Optum so we can leave
comments. We request two deliverables:

• A note containing your URL for the Medium draft (do not publish yet)
• Email PDF version of your case study (it is OK to print as PDF from the browser)

Some examples of UX case studies:

• https://medium.muz.li/ux-study-the-search-for-wine-492be5bb3b77
• https://medium.com/tradecraft-traction/myfitnesspal-a-ux-case-study-
f377ff66a504
• https://medium.com/red-academy/3-steps-to-help-you-write-a-great-ux-case-
study-786c0546837e

Other things to consider


• Because so many lives are at stake, healthcare is traditionally a conservative
industry. For a long time, keeping track of all patient records was done with pen
and paper. (Some doctors still do this!)
• There may be cognitive barriers, attitudinal barriers, environmental barriers,
cultural barriers, or other barriers to adoption of your solution. How will you
address these?
• What other constraints and limitations did you run into with your design?

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