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$150,000,000,000
Annual recorded losses on the healthcare system because of patient no-show
My role: Design Researcher & Visualization Lead
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Planed, conducted, and analyzed qualititive and quatitative research data
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Designed and visulized Customer Journey Map, Service Ecosystem Map, and Service Encounter Map.
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Created an integrated visual identity for brand "zubi"
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Designed the process book and presentation
Collaborated with
Brieana Nestler
Juancho Larrazábal
Wenqi Zhu
Prof. Xenia Viladas
Spring 19 I SERV 724
Problem Statement
Currently, healthcare services way of dealing with no show by adding fees to patients that don’t arrive to their respective appointment. However, nobody is getting any sort of “win” from this.
Services are not getting the amount of money they would’ve won from the appointment
and patients are angry because they’re being charged for a service they didn’t get.
Where is the disconnect?
Is there more to the issue than money?
Is the value co-creation process in healthcare completely broken?
Our research was focused on deep diving into the
user’s mind and understanding their context as well as expectations.
Distinctiveness of Healthcare
In our general survey, 58% of 25 participant had missed appointments with doctor, dentist, or both.
The rate is much higher than other industries.
The reason of no-show includes mental concerns,
like uncomfortable with hospital, nervious about unknown,
besides some other general issues on transportation,
and time management.
In order to understand the underlying reason, we planned and conducted multiple types of researches, including in-depth interviews, culture probe, and focus group.
Culture Prob
Culture Prob
Focused on people’s consideration before going to a doctor and their related experience with no shows
In-depth Interview
In-depth Interview
Understood how they make appointment, reasons for no show, awareness of no show fees & cost to healthcare
Focus Group
From all research collected, UNCERTAINTY is an overarching theme and relates to financial and time uncertainty, uncertainty of my relationship with the doctor, uncertainty of my own health status, unknown of doctor's professionalism, and where to reach out.
Health Status
UNCERTAINTY
is an overarching reason for no-show in healthcare
Where to get more authentic info
Patient/Doctor
Relationship
Professionalism
Cost/Insurance
Waiting Time
Based on the customer journey map, we identified where the uncertainty lies, before treatment even begins. After the first time treatment, people tend to maintain a routine treatment with much less uncertainties.
Target Group
Sub-healthy People
"Sub-healthy" is based on a Chinese word "亚健康", can be better represented on an intermediate stage between health and disease. Sub-healthy people have a number of uncertainties because they have no typical pathologic features, no obvious & diagnosable illnesses, even they know they're not 100% healthy.
In the focus group, their rating of health was 6.5 on average, consistent with how we all also ranked our own personal health. Living in this area of uncertainty, as one participant stated perfectly “My teeth are pretty good knock on wood, well I mean
realistically I don’t know because I haven’t gone to the dentist in a while.”
Field Focus
Dental Health
The Healthcare industry is divided into multiple fields that have disparate features. In order to obtain a more specific and practical solution, we selected dental health as our field focus to move forward.
raise people’s awareness of dental health?
HOW MIGHT WE
help people be in control/prioritize individual health?
help people alleviate cost uncertainty?
help people start a relationship with the dentist?
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“In the healthcare industry, first impressions are vital. A person's initial encounter with your facility can make or break her decision to become your patient. Healthcare is incredibly personal and often invasive, so it's critical to do whatever you can to put people at ease and lessen their burden - starting with the onboarding process.”
During patient onboarding experience, there are four main actors in Service Ecosystem, including insurance, financial institute, doctors, and patients.
We examined the financial, medical, and emotional connections between these actors.
Currently, there is no trust between patients and other actors. The complicated procedure aggravates the uncertainty.
New service is a dental and insurance consultation, aiming to help patients remove uncertainties by uncomplicating the process and providing a better understanding of health.
Current Service Ecosystem Map
Future Service Ecosystem Map
Prototype
#1 Workshop
Service Package
People want an integrated service, including:
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Quick checkup
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Advising for future plan
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Financial plan (insurance, financial support)
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Dentist plan (dentist matching, appointment)
Location: Community or shopping mall
Price <= $20
Time <= 30 mins
Future Service Encounter Map
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#2 Roleplaying
Servicescape (Lego)
People like...
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Smooth flow
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Innovative and interesting service
People want...
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An Attractive Trigger for advertisement
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A Clear Introduction before the main service at the front desk or waiting area.
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More Transparent in the steps of dentists matching and financial consultation
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More Professional and Neutral conversation to understand the service.
#3 Roleplaying
Conversation
We chose roleplaying to further fine-tune the conversations at hand to provide transparency with our customers during the service, as well as make sure the consistency between the brochure and the conversation being had.
5-step Service
Mission
Zubi’s mission is to give you transparent-tangible control of your dental health, so you no longer have the need to look for your ideal dentist, and can smile when they ask you to say AAAHHH.
Introducing Zubi
The mobile dental pop-up that provides you with a quick dental check-up, insurance consultation, and financial planning to find a dentist best suited for you. Zubi’s pop-ups will meet you where you are, like next to your office, the gym, or even the grocery store.
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ZUBI - PEACE OF MOUTH
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