← Back to portfolio
Previous project · Healthcare UX · Remote follow-up

Remote Follow-up System for Post-Intubation Airway Complications

A pilot healthcare system designed to support early detection of tracheal stenosis after intubation, coordinate communication between patients, nurses, and physicians, and reduce unnecessary in-person clinic visits.

1

Patient reports symptoms

Patients enter symptoms, request consultation, and report visit status through a structured online workflow.

2

Nurse reviews risk signals

Nurses review symptom submissions, visit status, patient records, and online consultation requests.

3

Physician provides guidance

Physicians can review patient information and respond when clinical consultation is needed.

4

Clinic visits are prioritized

The system helps identify which patients need follow-up while reducing unnecessary visits for lower-risk cases.

The problem

Patients at risk for post-intubation tracheal stenosis need follow-up, but not every patient requires an in-person clinic visit. Clinics needed a more structured way to collect patient symptoms, understand visit status, and support communication between patients, nurses, and physicians.

Unnecessary visits

Patients may come to clinic when remote review or guidance would be enough, increasing burden for both patients and care teams.

Fragmented communication

Symptoms, visit status, and consultation needs can be scattered across phone calls, paper records, and informal follow-up.

Multiple stakeholder needs

Patients, nurses, and physicians each needed different information, workflows, and interface features to make the system useful.

Solution

At a glance, the pilot stitched three parallel journeys into one follow-up story: patients surface what changed, nurses operationalize the queue, and physicians weigh in when remote judgment is enough. Interface captures stay conceptual here—the shipped screens used locale-specific clinical copy, so this section summarizes intent instead of pixel-level UI.

Patient workflow

  • Self-serve intake: profile, symptoms, and visit milestones in one guided path.
  • Escalation hooks for tele-consults when symptoms or timing warrant faster eyes.
  • Structured check-ins (for example quarterly status) so the clinic never guesses where someone sits in follow-up.

Nurse workflow

  • Operational cockpit to onboard patients, enrich records, and watch for risk signals.
  • Prioritized views for who needs outreach versus routine monitoring.
  • Single queue for asynchronous consult requests instead of scattered messages.

Physician workflow

  • Curated snapshot of the same structured data nurses collected—no duplicate data entry.
  • Lightweight remote consult lane before defaulting to scarce in-person slots.
  • Supports triage decisions when the question is “does this person need the clinic now?”

Skills highlighted

User-centered design

Turned stakeholder needs into clear user flows and role-based product requirements.

Clinical collaboration

Worked across patient, nursing, and physician perspectives to design a workflow that fit the healthcare context.

Prototype communication

Used low- and high-fidelity prototypes to communicate system behavior and support pilot implementation.