Remote Patient Monitoring

This product pairs with pulse oximeter and thermometer to provide timely patient monitoring.

What is the problem?

Covid-19 brings a boom of patients who need to be instantly and continuously cared for and monitored, which caused severe staff shortages at medical centers. The product concept is to alleviate the medical staff's workload by automatically measuring and keeping track of patients' medical status.

Who are the users?

This product is born during the pandemic to provide a seamless solution to the demand for body value measurement and monitoring. The users are medical professionals, especially at quarantine centers.

What is the design challenge?

Taking the medical staff's full agenda into consideration, we aim to avoid any obstacle or confusion for users and make this product as straightforward and informative as possible.

What is the solution?

The dashboard provides a panoramic view of all the patients' and devices' conditions. The alarm system is visualized by color codes, which reminds users in an efficient and non-interfering way. If a patient's condition reaches a certain level, acoustic notifications will be sent.

The Framework

Besides the dashboard, the foundation of this product contains three pages-- Devices, Wards, and Patients. The relation between these three is unidirectional. When a medical center first adapts to this product, users start by creating a list of wards based on the facility's capacity. The second step is to bind IoT healthcare devices to the center's account, and it allows users to assign new devices to existing wards. Later, in the patient check-in process, users are able to either automatically or manually assign an available ward to the patient.

Streamline Check-in Process

In response to high demand at peak time, from device assignment to alarm adjustments, we target to make the patient's check-in process simple and time-saving. IoT pulse oximeters, thermometers, and other healthcare devices should be assigned to ward entities in advance. When creating a new patient profile, the available ward automatically fills in along with devices that are located in the specific ward. The default alarm setting will be applied to each new patient, but users can modify it by choosing from templates, or personalizing it from scratch.

Alarm Settings Templates

This product supplies personalized alarm settings, determined by a patient's current status, which immensely reduces alarm fatigue for staff. Users can create individual device alarm templates with unique settings for future use, such as alarms for children or seniors.

Product Highlights

Highly Visualized Data Display

Patient avatars indicate the patient's age and agender. The patient profile widget announces the medical severity through colors. The capacities of wards, the conditions of devices, and the patients' curves can be chosen to be exhibited in charts.

Human-centered Alarm System

The alarm system is crucial for healthcare products but unnecessary alarms may distract users from real important work. In consideration of every individual's demands and health conditions vary, we enable our users to personalize alarm settings and to create alarm settings templates for certain groups.

Gestalt Principles Applied

A dashboard is where complex information (including patient profiles, health statuses, device conditions, and facility capacity) is shown. I use Gestalt laws of similarity, proximity, and uniform connectedness to organize content on the page so it is aesthetically pleasing and easy to read.