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    Jonathan Hooper, Zoe Sadowski

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    3:00-4:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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    Description

    Patients with discordant chronic comorbidities (DCCs) have multiple conditions that have unrelated and/or conflicting treatment plans. These patients are often required to consult multiple different specialists across health networks. Because of this, DCCs patients have great difficulty in managing their conditions. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have created opportunities to enhance DCCs patient care. This ongoing study explores the usability, user-centered design, and functionality of a patient-facing health application to help DCCs patients manage their conditions. We are using an iterative design process with 6 phases: (i) Create a storyboard, (ii) Create physical and digital prototypes, (iii) interview 3 (N = 3) doctors to get feedback on the prototype. (iv) revise prototype, (v) interview 5 (N = 5) patients to get feedback on the revised prototype, and (vi) finalize prototype for development. Our application implements 5 features: (i) Daily Check-In, (ii) Goal-Setting, (iii) Health Trends, (iv) AI-Generated Medication Suggestion, and (v) Calendar. We found that the application needs to provide consistent engagement to motivate the user to continue documenting their health. Feedback also informed us that the application should work with pre-existing resources such as electronic health records to improve documentation further and encourage ease of use. The future of this study should incorporate functions specific to DCCs such as detecting complications in a patient's treatment plan. Future design iterations plan to use gathered feedback while implementing new features to further motivate patients to use the application. Our research advances patient care outside of a clinical setting by encouraging patients to be more proactive about their health.

    Publication Date

    4-23-2025

    Project Designation

    Independent Research

    Primary Advisor

    Tom Ongwere

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Computer Science

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

    Institutional Learning Goals

    Practical Wisdom; Scholarship; Vocation

    Design for Discordant Chronic Comorbidities (DCCs) Health Management Application

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