Usability Evaluation & Redesign for Anesthesiology Procedural Planning App

Discover usability issues to drive redesign recommendations for a custom clinical application used by anesthesiologists to assist procedural planning prior to product launch.

October 2021 - April 2022 (Capstone)

UX Consultant & Research Lead

Role

University of Michigan, Department of Anesthesiology - Michigan Anesthesiology Informatics and Systems Improvement Exchange

Client

Team

Cleo Pontone, Jordan Briney, Kaeli Fish, & Isabella Valice

Overview

The Michigan Medicine Anesthesiology Department oversees the perioperative care of patients before, during, and after surgery. Given the vast amount of aesthetic cases and techniques, a group of doctors from this department noticed a need for a one-stop-shop that allows users to learn, view and compare clinical data available in an interactive, visual way.

As a result, they created ProcedureView (ProView), a custom clinical web application that leverages electronic medical record data that allows doctors to input patient medical status (age, sex, risk factors) along with their intended procedure (surgery) to help assist in developing the procedural plan and educate less experienced clinicians by comparing common approaches taken by anesthesiologists historically.

Given the vast amount of information from different screens consolidated into one visual screen, the doctors found the platform was difficult to understand and as a result was timely to understand or worse, impossible to understand, a pitfall that could be deadly if the data misinterpreted.