Patient Journey Map Template
Map every touchpoint a patient experiences from awareness through follow-up care.
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What's in this template
4 connected components you can rename, recolor, and extend with AI.
A patient journey map visualizes the end-to-end experience a patient has with a healthcare provider, from first symptom awareness and appointment scheduling through intake, diagnosis, treatment, billing, and post-visit follow-up. Each stage captures the patient's actions, emotions, and the systems they touch, exposing friction points like long wait times or confusing discharge instructions.
Patient experience teams, clinical operations leaders, and product managers use these maps to redesign care delivery and lift satisfaction scores. They prove especially valuable when launching a new service line, evaluating a digital front door, or building a CAHPS improvement plan, where seeing the entire journey at once is what surfaces the real opportunities.
Great for
- Patient experience redesign
- Service line launches
- CAHPS improvement plans
- Digital front door planning
- Clinical operations reviews
Make your own version with AI
Prefer to start from your own content? Describe it in one sentence and Infogiph generates a patient journey map template you can edit and animate. For example:
“Patient Journey Map Template showing Discover, Book, Coordinate and Follow-up”
Try it in the AI flowchart maker, or read Workflow diagrams and swimlanes for handoffs.
How to customize this template
- Open it in the canvas with Use this template.
- Use roles, not names, such as Triage nurse or Care manager. Never include patient names, record numbers, dates of birth or real case details.
- If you start from a photo of a whiteboard or a paper workflow, crop out anything that could identify a patient before uploading it.
- Label each handoff with what travels with it, such as a discharge summary or medication list, so gaps are easy to spot.
- Name the interface standard on integrations, for example Lab results (HL7 v2) or Patient app (FHIR), so IT reviewers know what is involved.
- Export a PNG or SVG for docs and slides, or a GIF or MP4 to keep the animation.
Frequently asked questions
What is a patient journey map?+
A patient journey map is a visual diagram of every stage and touchpoint a patient moves through when receiving care, capturing their actions, emotions, and the systems involved at each step.
What are the stages of a patient journey?+
Common stages include awareness, scheduling, intake and registration, diagnosis and treatment, billing, discharge, and follow-up care. The exact stages vary by service line.
How do you create a patient journey map?+
Start by defining a patient persona, list each touchpoint in chronological order, then annotate the actions, emotions, and pain points at each stage to reveal opportunities for improvement.
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