Patient Outreach Insights

Product Design, Design Strategy, Stakeholder Alignment

About the company

CareMessage is a healthcare technology nonprofit that provides patient communication platforms to 400+ federally qualified health centers, serving millions of underserved patients annually.

Project Overview

Core Problem

Patient engagement and messaging data was siloed across five separate features - Appointments, Programs, Referrals, Outreach, and Messenger. To understand organizational performance, customers had to jump between tabs, export CSVs from each feature, and manually stitch together a picture. Senior leaders, the people responsible for proving ROI to boards, had no unified view at all.

30%+ of all web-app feedback was reporting-related, the single largest category of customer pain

 
 

My role

  • Led end-to-end UX design

  • Drove stakeholder alignment on data structure and product packaging

  • Ensured C-suite users see measurable CareMessage value on login

 

Solution Summary

  1. A new Global Insights section: a dedicated menu entry point, not bolted onto an existing page that brings all-feature data together through the lens of Health Equity pillars: Access to Care, Clinical Outcomes, and Social Determinants, as well as Patients & Engagement, that _____

  2. Data structured to mirror CareMessage's product packages, so what executives see reflects what they purchased

  3. Full CSV export capability of selected date range

User Challenges & Research Signals

Four user groups were identified as high-priority, each with a distinct unmet need that the fragmented experience was actively blocking.

 
 

Senior Leadership

No way to see aggregate organizational performance — messaging volume, engagement, opt-outs, health equity impact — in a single view to report to board members or justify the CareMessage investment.


Clinical Staff

Needed simple, clear dashboards showing patient reach and failed message trends to follow up proactively — but data lived deep inside feature-level reports with no cross-feature summary.

Department Managers

Couldn't track patient trends, delivery failures, or engagement across locations without manually exporting from each feature separately — creating workflow inefficiency and increasing cognitive load.


Data Analysts

Required exportable, filterable datasets spanning all features for deeper analysis and custom reporting — the current patchwork of per-feature CSVs made this time-consuming and error-prone.

 

Design Exploration & Key Decisions

Before jumping to a solution, three fundamentally different design paths were evaluated.

 

Final Solutions & Key Features

Four tabs organized by Health Equity pillar, each mapping directly to a product package area. Accessible from a new Global Insights menu entry right beneath Dashboard.

 
 

Planning with the product manager, we decided to take an iterative, phased approach to the rollout in order to allow us to test and gather user feedback while designing.

For phase 1, we aimed to increase the engagement by optimizing the components and layout while bringing more valuable yet digestible information to our users. To do so, I leveraged three techniques for the design improvement.

 
  • Modular approach

    Modules can be applied based on a drug's given attributes, to allow us to test and scale new designs.

  • Rearchitect information

    to solve existing problems.  to better organize the existing information on the page

  • Eligibility labeling system

    find savings in a glance

 
 

Impact

Global Insights shipped to production in December 2025 with all 7 engineering milestones complete. Success is being measured against three defined targets through the end of Q1 2026.

 
 

35%

Target weekly adoption among active customers from a 0% baseline on a net-new feature

 

20%

Target engagement rate - Customers actively interacting with key actions like downloads and drill-downs

 
 

Qualitative Impact

For the first time, CareMessage customers have a single place to see their full health equity impact and not just message delivery stats. C-suite users who previously had to schedule calls with CSMs to build board presentations can now self-serve the data they need. The structure mirrors the product packages they've paid for, creating a direct, visible connection between investment and outcomes every time they log in. The reporting section has been removed from the dashboard, reducing confusion, and the architecture scales cleanly for future work of the CareMessage App redesign and role-based views.