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Health and medical · Siemens Healthineers · 2023
One platform where diagnostics used to fragment.
Blood gas, urinalysis, glucose, and lipids, on a single system. Research with over 1,000 medical professionals, from the emergency room to the lab.
1,000+ clinicians researched4 test types unifiediF Design Award
A clinician is waiting on four machines which do not talk.
Critical care, chronic care, and the laboratory each run their own workflow, their own sample types, and their own test engines. Blood gas here, glucose there, lipids somewhere else again. The fragmentation is not an inconvenience, it is a delay in front of a treatment decision.
Siemens Healthineers needed one platform which adapts to all three environments, and uses the connection between them rather than adding another silo.
Over 1,000 medical professionals, across three very different rooms.
Ethnographic and quantitative research covered critical care teams, laboratory technicians, and chronic care specialists. The needs pulled in opposite directions: chronic care wants long-cycle support, an emergency team wants rapid and flexible diagnostics, and the lab wants throughput.
Daisy-chaining diverse diagnostic engines was the root problem, and sample-type inconsistency was the symptom everybody had learned to live with.
The Atellica DCA platform, built to one interface.
Core workflows unified under a single interface, assembled from modular components so the same system can be configured for the ward, the lab, or the clinic. Integrated diagnostics bring blood gas, urinalysis, glucose, and lipid testing into one place.
Development ran as iterative prototyping against clinician feedback and usability testing, with machine learning models trained to anticipate operator error before it reaches the result.
Faster to result, with fewer places to go wrong.
The Atellica DCA Analyzer holds an iF Design Award. The measurable clinical outcomes belong to Siemens Healthineers and the institutions running the system, and we do not restate them here as ours. What the design work is accountable for is the shape: one interface across environments which used to need three, and an error model which anticipates the operator rather than blaming them.
Record. A founder’s track record, not studio work. Led by a Formist founder in prior practice.
Client. Siemens Healthineers, Boston.
Discipline. Medical devices · diagnostics · clinical research.
Why it is here. Because a regulated clinical environment is the strictest test of whether a simplification is real or cosmetic.
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