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An AMA on UX's Role in Healthcare

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community
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An AMA on UX's Role in Healthcare
Speakers: Eric Shumake
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Summary

Join Eric Shumake for a rapid-fire AMA following his recent Rosenverse Live session. We'll dive deep into the practical strategies designers use to build influence, navigate regulated spaces, and drive UX investment within healthcare organizations.

Key Insights

  • Using HIPAA-compliant platforms like Vercel's v0 app builder can significantly reduce development and liability overhead for healthcare apps.

  • The veterinary market offers a viable route to bypass HIPAA constraints to validate clinical app ideas before expanding into human healthcare.

  • Building a community of at least 10 engaged users early in app development helps validate product-market fit and fuels organic growth.

  • Healthcare research access can be gained through institutional buy-in, offering altruistic value, diary studies, or social listening to navigate overwhelmed systems.

  • Interoperability is a major pain point historically enforced by legacy EHR vendors, with FHIR standards gradually opening data access to startups.

  • Prior authorizations are intentionally difficult processes used by insurers to limit care, presenting a sharp problem space with high patient resonance.

  • Eric's Healthcare User Model Matrix helps organize diverse healthcare stakeholders (patients, admin, clinicians, payers) and phases to manage research scope effectively.

  • Securing both executive and physician champions inside healthcare organizations is crucial for B2B app adoption, along with minimizing technical implementation burden.

  • Physician skepticism often stems from emotional and credibility dynamics; approaching them with humility, empathy, and data-driven arguments eases collaboration.

  • Patient education from admission to discharge is a critical, under-addressed area where AI can help translate medical jargon into accessible language, improving health outcomes.

Notable Quotes

"You’re in the right spot, and that’s the right instinct to be building."

"The app is not our business. The people on the other end of that app are our business."

"If you get 10 people to follow, that’s a good sign your business has traction."

"The veterinary pathway is well established as a way to safely get clinical validation before human healthcare."

"Interoperability is frustrating by design, but FHIR is unlocking that data slowly."

"Insurance companies want to stop people from getting care; that’s why prior authorizations exist as a barrier."

"Healthcare is not just a user journey, it's an interdependent journey of layers and phases."

"Physicians are information alphas in the room; humility and data build bridges."

"It’s easier to sell if the team is talking about the tool — popularity inside counts."

"Healthcare UX needs you. Get out there, get amongst it, and start helping."

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