Transforming Mobile Healthcare Through Active Communication

Reduced no-show rates by 40% and customer service calls by 10% by designing and validating a proactive WhatsApp-based communication strategy for A+ Fleury’s mobile healthcare service — transforming visibility into operational efficiency.

Context

Grupo Fleury operates a mobile diagnostic service (home exam collection) with high operational complexity and strong dependency on manual coordination between field nurses, backoffice, and customer support for all brands, specially A+.

The mobile journey lacked visibility for patients and internal teams, generating high call center volume, operational friction, and preventable no-shows.

Challenge

How might we increase operational efficiency and patient satisfaction by improving visibility and communication across the entire mobile service journey — without increasing pressure on the call center?

The initiative required:

  • Reducing no-show rates

  • Reducing CAC calls related to nurse arrival and delays

  • Increasing patient trust and perceived quality

  • Structuring a scalable digital communication model

Key deliverables

  • AI-powered conversational flows on WhatsApp enabling proactive patient communication

  • Nurse/Field Technical WebApp for real-time operational coordination

  • Backoffice Operations Platform to centralize visibility and reduce service friction

  • End-to-end mobile service journey redesign integrating communication, logistics, and support

Role

As Digital Product Design Manager at CI&T, leading product discovery for Fleury’s Mobile Service (A+ brand), I:

  • Structured the full discovery framework

  • Led qualitative and quantitative research

  • Defined business hypotheses and success KPIs

  • Facilitated strategic mapping workshops

  • Designed the future-state journey (To-Be)

  • Co-created roadmap and MVP validation plan with Product and Engineering

Approach

1. Strategic Discovery

  • Executive business interviews

  • Operational deep dive with field nurses and backoffice

  • Analysis of documented customer complaints

  • AS-IS service blueprint

  • Benchmark analysis (including digital-first competitors)

  • Key insight: Lack of real-time visibility was the main friction across all layers — patient, CAC, and operations.

2. Hypothesis-Driven Validation
We structured two primary hypotheses:

  • Sending real-time WhatsApp notifications about nurse proximity reduces no-show and CAC calls

  • Sending delay notifications reduces anxiety, call volume, and service abandonment

  • We ran a two-week controlled pilot with selected nurses using WhatsApp communication protocols.

3. Measurement Framework
Success metrics included:

  • No-show rate (control group vs. general population)

  • CAC call volume related to arrival status

  • NPS comparison

  • Qualitative patient interviews

Impact

  • 40% reduction in no-show rates during pilot

  • 10% reduction in customer service calls related to arrival status

  • 100% approval of the communication experience among pilot participants

  • Validated communication as a scalable operational lever

The initiative evolved into:

  • WhatsApp tracking notifications

  • Digital scheduling enhancements

  • Nurse WebApp

  • Backoffice operational platform

  • Structured product roadmap for automation and logistics optimization

Strategic Outcome

This project repositioned mobile healthcare communication from reactive (call center-driven) to proactive and experience-driven — transforming communication into an operational efficiency strategy rather than a support function.

It established a scalable digital foundation for:

  • Real-time tracking

  • Intelligent routing

  • Automated backoffice workflows

  • CRM integration

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