With the rise in technological advances, the healthcare industry is falling behind where it matters most: managing patient information. Currently, hospitals use paper folders to house patient health information, which poses a long-term problem. As people move and shopping for better healthcare becomes more common, transferring important health information to different healthcare facilities becomes more difficult, thus resulting in fragmented health information. To combat this, Dell Medical School created Medilinker, an app that uses blockchain technology to give patients control over their data in the form of a digital health wallet, which allows them to access, transfer, and give permission to those wanting to use their data for research.

Considering the goal that our client had in mind, we sought to achieve this goal by focusing on:

As we went through the initial screens for the app, we tested the usability of the app using Jakob Nielsen's 10 Heuristics. Based on these measures, we identified areas that effect the app's usability that be improved upon in the next iteration. To do this, we created a severity scale to identify which features of the app needed the most attention.