Cura: Digital Prescriptions for Chronic Care

Three questions to the project team

What was the particular challenge of the project from a UX point of view?
From a UX perspective, the main challenge was turning a fragmented chronic-care journey into one continuous and trustworthy service. Patients, caregivers, and doctors all face different burdens: low adherence, family relay care, repeated consultations, device accuracy concerns, and idle equipment after treatment. Cura had to connect prescription, device leasing, daily tasks, data upload, AI support, and communication in a way that felt simple for patients, collaborative for caregivers, and efficient for doctors.

What was your personal highlight in the development process? Was there an aha!-moment, was there a low point?
My personal highlight was seeing prescription as a service become a real interactive system. During design, the aha moment was realizing that a prescription could connect medication, devices, care tasks, family supervision, and doctor communication. Later, I rebuilt the whole Cura project with Codex and connected a real AI medical assistant, which made the concept feel alive rather than just a prototype. The low point was usability testing: setup, readability, and trust still needed refinement, reminding me that healthcare innovation must stay simple, reliable, and accessible.

Where do you see yourself and the project in the next five years?
In the next five years, I hope Cura can move from concept to real clinical pilots with hospitals, pharmacies, and medical-device providers. The project should validate the circular device-leasing model, improve accessibility for diverse users, strengthen privacy and data security, and make AI support safer by keeping doctors responsible for medical decisions. Personally, I see myself continuing in healthcare UX and AI-driven service design, using research and prototyping to build systems that reduce burdens for patients, families, and clinicians.