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Telstra Health

Care Through Design

2019-21
Home Work Telstra Health

Service Design

Product Strategy

Design Leadership

At Telstra Health, Australia's leading digital health provider, I led a multidisciplinary design team across multiple healthcare delivery channels including telehealth consultations, patient mobile applications, and integrated care platforms. I was responsible for the design strategy of digital health platforms including the Virtual Health Platform, HealthNow patient app, and unified design systems. The platforms we delivered became instrumental during the COVID-19 pandemic, unifying the healthcare journey across web and mobile.

Key Projects

Virtual Health Platform
Virtual Health Platform

Delivering accessible healthcare to patients, clinicians nationwide through a unified platform

HealthNow
HealthNow

Designing a patient-centric mobile app that integrates telehealth & remote monitoring services

About My Role

As design lead, I directed the end-to-end UX strategy for Telstra Health's virtual healthcare, this involved close collaboration with product leadership and clinical advisors to ensure our roadmap was both scalable through robust design systems and clinically safe.

We introduced design sprints establishing a patient-centred framework, incorporating user research with diverse patient groups and clinicians to map journeys and uncover critical pain points. This approach balanced rapid iterations with healthcare compliance demands, ensuring every feature was intuitive, reliable, and trustworthy across varied settings, from major hospitals to remote health centres.

Impact & Results

  • Made it possible for more people to receive care, leading to a 200% growth in patient adoption and securing the platform's future with a 150% revenue increase in FY20.
  • Empowered over 27k people to manage their health directly through the HealthNow app and enabled continuous remote care for 7,200+ patients.
  • Improved care coordination enabling 2,277+ specialist video consultations and 7,200+ remote patient monitoring devices

My Approach & Expertise

Service Design Discovery

Collaborating with clinicians, patients, and healthcare administrators to understand complex care workflows, identifying opportunities to improve access while maintaining clinical safety standards across virtual and in-person touchpoints.

Human-Centred Design Strategy

Establishing design methodologies that balanced rapid iteration with healthcare compliance requirements, creating systematic approaches that enabled both patients and healthcare professionals to deliver and receive care effectively.

DesignOps & Leadership

Leading cross-functional design teams through healthcare-specific design challenges, implementing design thinking workshops with clinical teams, and establishing design systems that met both usability and clinical governance requirements.