Impact stories

New patient-booking experience live in 4 months

Sector
Healthcare
Model
Managed delivery
New ways of working
When Health Hero needed a new patient-booking experience, speed mattered — every week without it meant patients defaulting to the phone. Parser designed, built, and shipped the new experience in four months.
Booking drop-off reduced by
32%
4
months from kickoff to launch
Clinical team now has a single view of upcoming appointments.

The context

Health Hero's booking journey was built for an earlier product, and it showed: patients dropped off before confirming, and simple changes required engineering time the team didn't have. The new patient-booking experience went live in four months, built to be changed without a release.

The approach

We started with the patient journey, not the system — mapping where bookings stalled and redesigning the flow around the few decisions a patient actually needs to make. A Parser squad delivered the new experience alongside Health Hero's team, pairing throughout so the knowledge stayed in-house.

The impact

The new booking experience went live in four months. Patients complete bookings in fewer steps, drop-off has fallen, and the clinical team finally has a single view of upcoming appointments.

The experience is now driven by configuration rather than code, so Health Hero's team can adjust services, availability, and messaging without waiting for a release.

Clinician with stethoscope checking a phone

Parser understood from day one that this was about patients, not screens. They shipped a booking experience our team is genuinely proud of — in four months.

Emma Walsh, Chief Product Officer Health Hero

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