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Chapter 1: What innovative UX strategies are transforming healthcare?
Welcome back to the Insights Unlocked podcast. In this episode, recorded live at the Human Insights Summit in October, we're diving into how innovative UX strategies are transforming healthcare.
Join us as we chat with Amy Stillman from Cedar and Logan Hartline from HCA Healthcare about leveraging AI, simplifying patient experiences, and using storytelling to drive meaningful change in a complex industry. It's an inspiring conversation you won't want to miss. Enjoy the show.
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And what I'm going to do first is actually let you both introduce yourselves. And we'll start with Amy, who's sitting next to me, and then I'll introduce myself.
Sure. So I'm Amy Stillman. I'm the vice president of design at Cedar. And so I own product design and user research. And Cedar's mission is to help everyone be able to afford and pursue the care they need. So we're kind of at the intersection of finance and healthcare, trying to help people pay medical bills. So I'm sure everyone's gotten a bad medical bill.
And if you haven't, then you've known someone that has. So pretty gnarly problem that we're excited to work on. A great user experience with a lot of room for improvement. Oh yeah. A lot of opportunities. Logan.
Well, hey, good morning. I'm Logan Hartline. I'm the senior director at HCA Healthcare. HCA Healthcare operates in 22 states, hospitals, urgent care, surgery centers, freestanding emergency departments, and physician practices. So I lead our user experience center, which really enables product designers to focus on digital products
for patients, consumers, nurses, doctors, hospital operators, HR professionals. If it helps our hospital group function, we are working on capabilities to enable those people to get their jobs done. We focus on accessibility, design systems, research as well. So never a dull day in our job.
Yeah, I feel like for everybody's job thesis, there's never a tall day, but just a little bit about me. I'm Leah Hogan, and I'm a principal on our experience research strategy team at User Testing. And basically what that means is that I have this kind of hybrid role of working with our customers to be able to
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Chapter 2: How can storytelling simplify patient experiences?
And so we tried to, in our user database, identify users who we thought would be eligible for Medicaid. And one of the hardest parts about Medicaid is that the process is a horrible user experience. You have to go onto some state website and figure out where a form is, download the form, physically fill out the form, backspack in the form. It's really, really hard.
And we knew that, but I think in our user research, what we learned is that before that even happens, there's this moment for the user in which they start to question, like, is this even for me? Is the effort even worth it? And so the part of the problem that we decided we wanted to tackle first, based on that insight, was just getting people to a point of like, yes,
Like this is something that we think could be for you. And there is dollars and funds available. And so it helped the insight helped us, you know, as experienced designers, we wanted to really go after like all the friction with the faxing. And we did handle that, too.
But we thought as a starting point, the first starting point is just getting people to the table to know that this service is something that might be for them and do it in a really lightweight, user friendly thing. The other thing we learned from the research was this is a scary conversation for a lot of people. A lot of people maybe had insurance but then had joblessness and they don't now.
And so the emotional vulnerability of also being able to come to the table. We found this insight from one of our designers in research where the insight was it's not rude from a robot.
And the idea is to have a vulnerable conversation with technology is sometimes easier than a financial aid counselor that's calling you and you have to go through this kind of heart-wrenching story that might be very emotional. So getting people to the table was not only kind of providing them with that just first answer of like that gut check,
but also really leaning into the fact that it might actually be more comfortable for some folks to use kind of a digital screener and kind of a wizard, a Clippy, a Clippy, but not a Clippy. We all love a Clippy. We all come back to a Clippy. But to do something like that versus tackling, you know, the whole problem, which, you know, later on we did that as well.
We actually partnered with someone to actually help us execute the form part. Yeah, so I don't know. So that was a success for us, knowing which part of the problem to tackle and focusing on really that human need of emotional vulnerability and understanding that there is a path for you. That I think is a really powerful story.
So thank you for sharing that.
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