Health Prescribing App

Designing a streamlined way for clinicians to prescribe digital health tools.

Overview

With more digital health apps meeting clinical standards and gaining approval, there’s a growing need to integrate them into clinical workflows. This concept app explores how healthcare professionals could prescribe approved digital health apps directly to patients, supporting better outcomes and engagement beyond the consultation room.

My contribution

- Product design & prototyping
- User research & wireframing

The team

- Product designer

Year

2019-20

Product brief

To design a mobile-first concept that enables clinicians to quickly and safely prescribe approved digital health apps during consultations, supporting integration with existing workflows and delivering clear, patient-friendly handovers.

Key deliverables

  • Designed specifically for use on mobile devices, ensuring speed, clarity, and ease-of-use in time-pressured clinical settings.

  • Enabled clinicians to quickly find relevant, accredited apps by filtering by condition, patient need, or approval body.

  • Provided clear, trusted information at a glance — including clinical endorsements, user ratings, and key prescribing actions.

  • Mapped a simple, three-step prescribing process to ensure consistency and reduce friction during consultations.

  • Explored multiple formats for sharing app prescriptions with patients, ensuring accessibility across different preferences.

  • Delivered a functional prototype to demonstrate user flow and interface interactions for internal review and feedback.

  • Created a consistent and reusable component library, aligned with brand guidelines and designed to meet accessibility standards.

Above: Onboarding screens

Above: Voice activated search

Process

The design process focused on:

  • Mapping clinician prescribing journeys for digital tools

  • Reviewing existing digital formularies and paper-based handover tools

  • Rapid wireframing and prototyping in Figma

Challenges

  • Designing for extremely limited time windows in consultation settings

  • Balancing clinical rigour with a lightweight experience

  • Making the app selection process contextual but not overwhelming

  • Designing outputs that are easy for patients to understand and act on

Despite these, we delivered a fully functioning prototype with real-world validation.

Outcome

The final concept demonstrated a scalable, intuitive approach to digital health prescribing — one that supports clinicians, empowers patients, and strengthens the role of health apps in care pathways. The work laid the foundation for future integration into prescribing platforms, with a clear opportunity for pilot testing and stakeholder engagement in primary and secondary care settings.