RUC Database Application: Modernizing Healthcare's Core CPT Engine
Transforming the American Medical Association's critical Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) database application from a 20-year legacy system into a state-of-the-art interactive digital workspace.
Modernization Vision
The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set maintained by the AMA is the national standard medical language used across all hospitals, insurers, clinicians, and health institutions across the United States. The RUC committee manages tens of thousands of complex procedure reviews annually.
The client’s vision was to modernize their database and application for their core CPT product from a rigid, legacy desktop system to a latest-generation interactive architecture. The objective was to untangle deeply nested data hierarchies, simplify procedural search, and enable committee members to review, vote on, and annotate procedural value recommendations seamlessly.
Human-Centered Design Architecture
Domain Discovery
Deconstructing medical coding taxonomies, conducting interviews with AMA committee reviewers, and documenting complex multi-step voting rules.
Information Architecture
Restructuring multifaceted data trees into clean modular tables, master-detail views, and collapsible side-panel inspectors in Adobe XD.
High-Fidelity Prototyping
Designing precision interactive prototypes with micro-states, filtering matrices, search autocomplete, and custom vector icons in Illustrator.
Design System Handoff
Delivering an exhaustive component library, design tokens, responsive typography rules, and interactive walkthroughs for engineering teams.