Docudo targets the problem of "black box interventions" or the loss of information in physiothepy practice. The tablet application is seamless documentation tool designed to adjust to each physiotherapist’s unique documenting style in intuitive and a time-saving manner. With clear structure and implementation of AR and AItechnologies, Docudo reduces the documentation time up to 55% and allows a physiotherapist to focus on the session
My Main Challenge
Creating Efficient and Familiar
Documentation Way
"How can we create an integrated application that enables physiotherapists to efficiently and structurally document assessments, interventions, and other data using ICHI classification, while seamlessly integrating with healthcare platforms for billing and enhancing communication with patients and healthcare professionals?”
My Role
I participated in all stages of the project, along with other team members.
Starting from research, to interviews, followed by wireframes and final designs, and user tests.
Design
User Flow
Design & Structure of the App
Iteration
Collaboration with Medical Professionals
On-site Research of Therapy Sessions
Research
The topic of standardization and physiotherapy is complex. As a team, we put a lot of effort into research by interviewing experts and practitioners, analyzing existing tools, and looking at existing technologies.
Laying this groundwork helped us greatly in deciding which features to implement and how to implement them. We opted for different input options (pen, keyboard, speech to text), "Smartkey" for diagnosing, exercise, and ICHI-classification suggestions, AR for a faster and more accurate way to take measurements, and blockchain-based EPD to handle sensitive data safely and swiftly.
After the user test, we became even more confident in our features and started working on the design, where we decided to adopt a minimalistic approach.
Expert Interview Insights
Observation of Therapy Session Flow
Localization problem area
Health / Medical Background
Assessment
treatment
Puppet-Tool Views designed for docudo
Wireframes
Docudo User Flow
Home Screen
Docudo offers a clear and open design, tailored for daily use by therapists in work environments. Its visually engaging interface combats fatigue and features an adaptable documentation area, providing an uncluttered view of essential patient data.
Similarly, the patient dossier and dashboard/home screen are structured to provide essential daily information with the option to delve into more detail. The dashboard displays upcoming appointments, necessary notifications, and a feature for taking quick notes.
Patient Dossier
In the patient dossier, key information such as contact details, healthcare number, and age are readily accessible, along with features to search documentation and summarize the patient's existing health data.
Documentation Screen
The documentation is divided into four sections: diagnosis, measurements, treatments, and exercises. Each section adjusts to the necessary size and can be collapsed when not in use, equipped with specific tools tailored for each category.
Documentation Process
Extensive research, including interviews, observation, bodystorming, and user testing, identified the dynamic nature of the documentation process as crucial. To accommodate personal preferences, multiple input methods have been integrated to meet therapists' needs.
Handwritten notes
The default keyboard input is complemented by a stylus option for handwriting notes, which are transcribed into digital text using Apple's robust API, enhancing readability and enabling the use of the smartkey feature app-wide.
Voice-Mode
Additionally, a voice-mode allows therapists to dictate notes. This mode converts speech to text in real time and lets therapists select and add the desired text directly to the documentation.
Automatic ICHI-Classification
In smartkey docudo analyses the input of the therapist and provides an automatic keyword detection. This enables docudo to automatically suggest a classification of the specific case and set the corresponding ICHI-classification. Abbreviations used by the therapist will be recognised as well and can be translated if the data gets transferred to colleagues or other health professionals.
The tool marks the corresponding body part on sketches and streamlines the documentation process, saving time and ensuring clarity with structured case classifications. Additional features include a documentation-wide text search function and the ability to recognize therapist abbreviations, automatically replacing them with the correct medical terms to facilitate clear understanding among colleagues, doctors, and researchers.
Puppet Tool
The application offers three distinct styles of human sketches, tailored to different treatment subsystems: a skeletal version, a muscular version, and a nervous system sketch.
These options are easily selectable within the patient documentation interface. To further customize the experience, the sketch automatically adjusts to match the patient's gender.
AR Measuremenets
Through AR motion tracking the app lets the therapist easily record accurate measurements of Golden Standard tests in a easy and intuitive way. Those measurements will then be automatically added to the list of the corresponding measurement. Making it convenient to do fast and accurate measurements a lot of valuable data for future scientific evaluation will be generated
Smart Exercise Suggestions
