RDU · Durham
Helian Dashboard
Designed a clinical operations dashboard that translates raw HL7 streams into glanceable surgical readiness metrics.
- Role
- Product Designer
- Timeline
- NOV 2025 – MAR 2026
- Technical Dialect
- React · D3 · HL7 FHIR · Tailwind
- 11sAvg dashboard glance
- +38%On-time OR starts
Problem
Operating rooms run on whispered handoffs and paper clipboards — the data exists, but it never converges in one place when the charge nurse needs it.
Solution
I built a wall display that turns the hospital's raw HL7 stream into a single glanceable readiness state, so the charge nurse never has to ask the question twice.
§ Shipped
What I built
The Process
Design architecture
Optional deep dive — how the problem became the shipped product.
Shadowing pre-op handoffs
Pre-op handoffs lose data at every step. I mapped the seven-touch chain from admitting to OR and identified the three signals that actually move the schedule.
Readiness state machine
Every patient resolves to one of five readiness states. The dashboard collapses dozens of HL7 fields into that single tile, with drill-down only when the state is yellow.
Glance-distance typography
Type is sized for 12 feet of glance distance. Color carries state, but never alone — every tile pairs hue with shape and label so the board reads in greyscale too.