The Healthcare UX Podcast
Where healthcare systems meet the people who use them.
The StoryInterviews with the designers, researchers, and product leaders shaping digital health — from patient apps and clinician tools to the EHRs everyone loves to hate.
Good design in healthcare has to survive what consumer products never face: regulation, clinical workflows, patient safety, and the competing needs of everyone in the room. Each episode is a focused conversation with someone doing that work — one guest, one topic, one close look at where the way a system is built collides with what the people who use it actually need. Patients, clinicians, caregivers. Real people, not just users.
Whether you already work in healthcare UX or you're trying to break into it, this show is about learning the craft: how experienced designers navigate the constraints, what they've shipped, what they've had to concede, and what they wish the field would finally fix. Every conversation ends the same way — with the one fix our guest is tired of waiting for.
Hosted by Kelly Smith.
1.04 Unlearning UX: Designing for Safety, Comfort, and Trust with Anna Oh
Anna Oh is Head of Product & Design at Norbert Health, where she leads design on a robotic remote-patient-monitoring platform for seniors in nursing homes — working directly with patients and nursing staff.
1.03 Health AI for the People the System Leaves Out with Smit Doshi
When your user has no doctor and no second opinion, a confident wrong answer can cost a life. Smit Doshi of MyHappy.Health joins Kelly Smith to talk about designing AI health for the people the system leaves out — and why his team built an anemia screener, then deliberately left it switched off.
1.02 Design Above the Interface with Justin Ranton
I talk with Justin Ranton, who designs clinical AI at SmarterDX, about why the decisions that determine whether an AI product works happen upstream of the interface — not on the screen.
1.01 Why Healthcare UX is Different, Not Just Harder - with Eric Shumake
In the debut episode of Healthcare UX, I’m chatting with Eric Shumake, founder of HXR Labs, who's spent 20+ years in healthcare UX research. His core argument: healthcare UX isn't regular UX with extra rules — it's a different discipline entirely