Advanced Technologies Group
WEB
AVS (Active Visual System) Dashboard
Developed for auditors who needed quick access to a plethora of hospital-based information, broken out over a dozen applications. Individual micro-sites were also needed, with access to PDF/DWF/CAD drawings for quick review and reference.
The challenge for our team was to make the layout clear and the user journey simple. The users of this dashboard had been organizing their audits via paper for years, and wanted to make an easy transition to digital that didn’t overwhelm them.
As this project and others like it evolved, more and more emphasis was placed to better adapt the design to mobile devices across both Android & iOS. However, I moved on in my career journey before this conversion was fully realized & implemented.
Compliance Manager
If you didn’t get the sense from the AVS Dashboard, ATG’s bread & butter was developing multiple & varying information based solutions; Compliance Manager was one of those solutions and by far the most profitable.
In a similar vein to the AVS Dashboard, the focus was to update the design to a modern standard with an emphasis on iconography, color, and overlays to display specific information and download/upload documents.
During my time at ATG, I pursued the development of a design system to manage the various components & site elements to maintain consistency & ADA compliance. I was unable to see this pursuit realized before leaving, but I was able to establish a solid foundation for the future and enhance my own personal growth as a UX designer.
Space Move Manager
In one of the truest Excel to web translations, SMM was primarily a CAD-integrated technology solution for inspection & management of assets. It was a solution that was managed & edited by hospital staff for the benefit of the patient & visitor experience.
Designed to manage the day-to-day occupancy planning, the built in technology also synced to analytics based applications for more effective strategic and master space planning. This helped reduce potential risk for inaccuracies that could lead to Stark violations.
These simple table based web layouts allowed me to build on learning how to layout site content & components, and experiment with HTML & CSS coding adjustments on the fly.
APP
AVS (Active Visual System)
Designed as the go to app for hospital auditors that would make multiple facility stops within a single day, this tablet based application needed to be a 1:1 translation of the desktop experience (described above). The inclusion of the additional app solutions were meant as both an easy access point for users, but also as a selling point to expand their arsenal of auditing tools.
The users of this app were familiar with the journey via desktop for some time, and wanted a viable 1:1 translation that felt natural. Truly the ultimate goal of the AVS app was to bring that cloud-based binder style to a mobile device, allowing for greater management of documentation requirements for the governing Joint Commission.
AVS was and I assume still is, ATG’s base level introductory technology for new and existing hospital & facility clients across the country; having a heavy hand in that version 1 development life cycle shaped my approach to iteration, global development coopeation, and overcoming client expectations vs reality.
Life Safety Management
Another core solution provided by ATG was Life Safety Management, a CAD focused solution for continuous inspection and management of fire and life safety support systems that keep patients & hospital staff safe in their respective healthcare facilities.
Facility management auditors needed a solution that would allow them to do their life safety rounds in the most efficient way possible; for desktop solutions it was easy for them to switch between tabs to view their CAD drawings and then fill out their inspection reports. This was the primary goal of designing for this solution; to utilize the split-screen tablet view for them to simultaneously pan & zoom on the drawing as they moved room to room, markup the drawings, and then fill out the report.
Over a period of time post-deployment, we received positive feedback on how this app improved the accuracy of their reports with lead to an improvement in compliance and error reporting. The additional integration with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing data granted auditors clearer and more accurate life safety plans for accreditation surveys.
Utility Equipment Manager
One of the last applications I worked on was a user-friendly focused platform called Utility Equipment Manager, focused on something quite simple in comparision to its more robust brother & sister applications.
Simply put this little iOS & Android tablet app allowed facility building inspectors to perform inspections, submit maintenance requests for, and flag issues related to generators and fire pumps.
Like all of the applications our team at ATG designed and developed, it was meant to streamline the process of maintaining the expected performance of facility care that ultimately benefited both patients and hospital staff.
