brain cancer
care app
Research & Strategy
Digital Prototyping
USC Convergent Science Institute in Cancer
Iovine & Young Academy Team
Paid Consulting Project
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brief & approach
CLIENT
USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience: Convergent Science Institute in Cancer is the leading cancer lab at USC that focuses on predicting effective individualized treatment for cancer patients.
problem
a) Physicians lack information about patients’ daily living, outside of appointments.
b) Patients lack control over their electronic health records (EHR).
FOCUS
Glioblastoma is terminal brain cancer. Its rapidly growing, highly critical nature makes the impact of increased insight very high.
TARGET AUDIENCE
a) Caregivers of patients with Glioblastoma.
b) Oncologists treating patients with Glioblastoma.
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research
I initiated & led the user research initiative — conducting interviews with Glioblastoma patients & caregivers and physicians & oncologists.
I also studied the scientific/medical side of the problem, the existing healthcare systems, and the lifestyles of terminal brain cancer patients.
a system for collecting holistic data from glioblastoma patients exists.
but it is extremely inefficient.
and therefore, overlooked.
We need to design an efficient system for Glioblastoma patient caregivers to document holistic, everyday data, that is easily accessible by oncologists.
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low-mid res prototypes
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high res prototype
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user feedback
& takeaways
I presented our mockups to the patients & caregivers that I had previously spoken to.
The key piece of feedback was: How do we keep caregivers on the app regularly?
The caregiver is going through a lot. Our solution must ease this, not add one more thing to their to-do list.
I believe this comes down to making the UI more warm, motivating, and encouraging for the caregiver, so they get immediate feedback and know that every check-in they do is helping the doctor care for their loved one. This can help the caregivers help the physicians help the patients.