Maxwell Getz CASE 03 / 05
CLINICAL PLATFORM SUTUREHEALTH

Clinical Paperwork Processing, Designed End to End

Taking a clinical document platform from a founding design system to a shipped v2, turning slow, error-prone paperwork into a fast, trustworthy workflow for the staff who live in it.

ROLE  Principal UX Designer YEAR  2022—2023 COMPANY  SutureHealth
FIG.01 · DOCUMENTS MOVING THROUGH THE PIPELINE
CONTEXT

Healthcare runs on paperwork that software forgot.

Clinical documents (consents, orders, referrals) move through a maze of fax, scan, and manual entry. Each handoff adds delay and risk, and the people processing them work in tools never designed for the volume.

SutureHealth set out to replace that with a single platform for receiving, routing, and signing clinical paperwork. I joined early enough to shape both the product and the design foundations it would scale on.

0 → 1 + scale Design system founder High-volume workflows Compliance-aware
ROLE & TEAM
ROLE Principal UX Designer · first design hire
TIMELINE 2022—2023 · founding → v2
TEAM Founders, plus a small product & engineering team
SCOPE Core platform, design system, end-to-end processing flows
FOCUS Workflow design, component system, usability, shipping v2
PROCESS
01

Map the paper trail

Traced documents across every handoff to find exactly where time and trust were being lost.

02

Found the system

Built the first design system so a small team could ship consistently and fast as the product grew.

03

Design the pipeline

Reframed processing as a clear, status-driven pipeline that anyone on staff could read at a glance.

04

Ship v2

Partnered directly with the founders to ship the second generation to production.

KEY DECISIONS & CRAFT THREE DECISIONS
DECISION 01

Status over inbox

Modeled work as a pipeline with explicit states, so staff always know what's done, what's waiting, and what needs them.

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DECISION 02

A system before features

Invested early in tokens and components so the team could move fast without the UI fragmenting under pressure.

DECISION 03

Accountability built in

Every action is attributed and traceable, so a clinical document's full history is always clear and auditable.

OUTCOMES
70%
FASTER DOCUMENT
TURNAROUND
3×
DOCUMENTS PROCESSED
PER STAFF MEMBER
40+
COMPONENTS IN THE
FOUNDING SYSTEM

The platform shipped its second generation on a design system that let a small team keep pace with a fast-growing product surface.

REFLECTION

Joining early meant the design system and the product grew together. The discipline that mattered most was saying no to one-off UI. Every reusable decision compounded as the team scaled.

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