THE CHALLENGE
The TIC was initially tasked by the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence to build a tool to track disease progression and display patient history based on medications, MRI results, relapses, lab results, and patient-reported data. Since the TIC uses a human-centered approach to design an application, the design team started with research and conducted interviews with clinicians to learn more about their needs and challenges. Seeing data in one place, comparing patients to others, and learning how events co-occur in time were all requirements for clinicians wanting to improve their ability to predict individual patient outcomes.
THE OUTCOME
Patient Insight displays precision medicine data for pattern review among patient groups. Clinicians use the Patient Insight application to observe patients’ health status over time and better understand their progress. Accessible through Epic, this tool also helps clinicians to better communicate with their patients. High impact features were added by the TIC design and development teams. For example, nephrology clinicians can now access a patient’s Risk of Kidney Failure score and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease while reviewing trends. This helps clinicians communicate medical interventions with patients. Medications and lab results for Myositis patients are now displayed in real-time through FHIR, a data exchange system. Data previously took 48 hours to update.
