Vermonster

Vermonster was hired by a publishing firm to develop chatbots for Slack and Facebook. The firm was seeking ways to explore new platforms for publishing content and decided on chatbots as a potential solution. Vermonster conducted research to understand user interaction with the bot and developed scripts based on the findings. The chatbot, built in collaboration with the firm's in-house UX designers and developers, allows users to receive content through Slack. Following the success of the Slack bot, Vermonster was re-hired to create a similar one for Facebook Messenger. The company continues to improve and maintain both bots.

In another project, Vermonster was contracted by a company that creates clinical decision support tools to develop guidelines for an authoring platform, a point-of-care web service, and an application that can be launched from a doctor's medical record. The platform uses CDS Hooks to launch an app from the physician medication order screen. The app retrieves patient data from the electronic health record and passes it to an AI engine, which suggests evidence-based therapy options. The team, which varied from 4-8 developers, designers, and health informatics architects, also measured and reported on compliance with the evidence for payers and providers who share the risk in value-based care agreements.

Vermonster was also engaged by the Boston University School of Medicine to develop a web learning platform for students. The platform was to provide a note-taking tool for learners to log their experiences. Vermonster was involved from the initial design process and handled all the backend development. They also created a learning portfolio, a community feed, and a heat map to visualize where learning was happening. The team of developers, designers, and project managers successfully launched the web platform within a few months.