d+collab // THE PATIENT RECORD
January 2013
We challenged designers across the country to reimagine the patient health record. Over 230 responded and inspired us with their submissions.
What It Looks Like Today
Blue Button was developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and gave Veterans and their families access to their health records. The first version was limited to text.
It looks and feels like a receipt. If you are a patient with many health conditions, the record is unwieldy because of the lack of presentation and hierarchy.
Design Objectives
- Improve the visual layout and style of the information from the medical record
- Create a human-centered design that makes it easier for patient to manage their health
- Enable health professionals to more effectively understand and use patients' health information
- Help family members and friends care for their loved ones
Winners and Showcase
Nightingale (Chicago, IL)
Best Overall Design - 1st Place
Amy Guterman, Stephen Menton, Defne Civelekoglu, Kunal Bhat, Amy Seng, and Justin Rheinfrank from gravitytank
Studio TACK (Brooklyn, NY)
Best Overall Design - 2nd Place
William Brian Smith and Leigh Salem from Studio TACK
Blue Button by Method (San Francisco, CA)
Best Overall Design - 3rd Place
Melissa Martin, Ryan Lee, Kaisha Hom, James Lee, Jeremy Juel, and Leslie Velasco from Method
MedPop by PIIM (New York, NY)
Best Medication Design - 2nd Place
Christopher Goranson, Jihoon Kang, and Sayoko Yoshida from Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, The New School
Blue Button Narrative (Champaign, IL)
Best Medication Design - 3rd Place
Sanny Lin, Shao-Chi Oy, Kris Wan, and Emelyn Baker
Grouping by Time by Mathew Sanders (Brooklyn, NY)
Best Problem/Medical History - 1st Place
Portfolio • Dribbble
protoRX by Tony Webster (Minneapolis, MN)
Best Problem/Medical History - 2nd Place
Portfolio • Dribbble
Health Summary by HealthEd (Clark, NJ)
Best Lab Summaries - 1st Place
Mike Parker, Dan McGorry, and Kel Smith from HealthEd
Stay Well by Teague (Seattle, WA)
Best Lab Summaries - 3rd Place
Ronald Viernes, Izzie Zahorian, Lauren Cascio, and Justin Marshall from Teague
Entries that inspired the judges and challenged the status quo
Empower Through Design (Clark, NJ)
Venessa Perez, Kel Smith, Tara Rice, Michael Genkin, and Alyssa Costino from HealthEd
OPENHealth Central by Lybba (San Francisco, CA)
Kelli Auerbach, David Fore, and Leslie Marticke from Lybba
EmpowerVet (San Jose, CA)
Annette Maxwell, Cynthia Mackey, Anne Mason, and Maurice Novembre
Reimagining the Patient Record (Pittsburgh, PA)
Amanda Greenberg, Noah Bornstein, Gina Assaf, Jenn Tran, Jonas Gebhardt, Jonathan Chan, Kelsey Humphries, Kristina Lustig, Louise Briguglio, Luis Gonzalez, Luis Guzman Verbena, Raunaq Gupta, and Rebecca Jablonsky
eHealthMonitor (Cerritos,CA)
Murali Vasudevan
At a Glance Health Record (Blacksburg, VA)
Eileen B, Sarah G, David F, Kara B, and Charles H from Uncork-It
The Social Health Insights Vision (Austin, TX)
Sharon Silverberg, Mark Silverberg, Brian Norris, Charles Boicey
We would like to thank all the designers and hackers who contributed to this collaborative effort. We were blown away by the number of submissions (over 230!) and the quality of them. The showcase above were some of the reviewers and curators favorite. To see all the entries, head over to Challenge.gov. All entries are Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
What Happens Next
We will showcase the best designs for the industry to learn from and be inspired by
(The showcase above. Share it!)
In the next 2 months, a combination of the winning designs will be built and open-sourced on Github
(This will be like Bootstrap for health records. If you'd like to help out, tweet us.)
EMRs across the country will be able to integrate it into their products and contribute to the project
(The VA wants to help patients better understand what's in their record, and what it means to them)
Reviewers and Curators
Ryan Panchadsaram
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Ben Blumenfeld
Co-Director at Designer Fund
Thomas Goetz
Prev. Executive Editor of Wired Magazine
Leslie Ziegler
Creative Director at Rock Health
Donna Cryer
Prev. CEO of American Liver Foundation
Peter Levin
CTO of Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Nicholas Felton
Product Designer at Facebook
Lygeia Ricciardi
Office of Consumer eHealth at ONC
Henry Wei, MD
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Farzad Mostashari, MD
National Coordinator of ONC
Sophia Chang, MD, MPH
Director at CHCF
Glen Moy
Senior Program Officer at CHCF
Inspiration and Clips
There are a handful of resources and works on the web for you to learn from and be inspired by.
Blood Test Gets a Makeover
Wired Magazine
Project Synapse
California HealthCare Foundation
"Graphic designers have the unique ability to take something that exists, transform it, and make it more valuable and usable. By making a patient health record more usable, designers can help to prevent medical errors, empower patients to make smart health decisions, and even save lives."
Ryan Panchadsaram
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Fitbit Dashboard Designs & Sketches
Dribbble - Kerem Suer
It's time to redesign medical data
TEDMED - Thomas Goetz
"From poorly designed hospitals to difficult to use medical devices, medicine is ripe for a design revolution. We simply need the right collaborators and opportunities."
Ben Blumenfeld
Co-Director at the Designer Fund
Target's ClearRX
Design by Deborah Adler
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