Studio Black

Healthcare & life sciences

Clinical and patient products that survive real wards and real regulation.

Platforms for clinicians, patients, pharma and research. Configurable across conditions, defensible under governance.

What’s different here

  1. 01

    Clinician time is the scarcest resource. Every screen competes with a patient.

  2. 02

    Patients have to keep going. Adherence, diaries, PROMs and exercises only work if they fit a life, not a protocol.

  3. 03

    Data is sensitive by default. Consent, minimisation, audit trails and deletion are product features, not policies.

  4. 04

    One platform, many conditions. Pathways, measures and interventions must be configurable without a development cycle.

  5. 05

    Evidence matters. Cohorts, outcomes and analytics have to be interpretable by clinicians and defensible to researchers.

What we’ve done

  1. Established the design framework for a modular long-term-condition management platform used by hospitals, pharma and research institutes: a system where a clinic can configure its own patient app from pathways, PROMs, diaries, exercises, messaging and measures.

  2. Redesigned the clinician portal to surface AI-assisted analytics through modular components and clear data visualisation.

  3. Ran patient workshops and clinician sessions across conditions including oncology, rheumatology and Crohn’s disease, and supported a deployment at a teaching hospital as a specialist cancer solution.

  4. Proved the framework under pressure: a COVID-recovery app launched on the same modular system.

  5. Applied the same discipline to our own product: bring-your-own-key encryption, EU hosting, PII stripping before every AI call, audit logging and data-subject tooling.

What we bring

  • Service design across clinician, patient and admin roles
  • Clinical dashboards and data visualisation
  • Modular design systems for configurable products
  • Research with clinicians and patients
  • Privacy engineering and GDPR tooling
  • AI features with a human in the loop

Principles

Design for the clinician’s 90 seconds and the patient’s 90 days.

Configurable beats custom; custom beats generic.

If the AI can’t show its reasoning, it doesn’t belong on the ward.

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