Welcome to The Hungry Cells (aka Saving Grandpa)

Background

This project came about at the Brisbane Health Hack 2016. Jerome Goldstein a doctor working for QLD Health came hoping to find a solution to the problem of managing cardiology patients that come in for a new type of cardiac surgery.

"The demand for cardiac surgery to be performed via the groin is soaring. These procedures give older patients unfit for open heart surgery a second chance. Despite the rapid increase in number of procedures performed hospitals currently use an excel spreadsheet to track patient data and determine procedural eligibility. A specialized database system to support decision making is desperately lacking. The rate of growth in the number of procedures performed is outstripping the ability to manage patients using an excel spreadsheet. It has become a workflow and efficiency problem. The number of people across the cardiology, radiology and surgical departments with access to the excel spreadsheet is growing and data integrity is an issue. It is also impacting on arranging timely follow up for these patients."

Solution

We wanted to create an easy to use web application that could store everything the excel spreadsheet did whilst providing a simple overview of each patient. Given that the majority of QLD Health applications are created using .NET and Microsoft SQL Server, we used that to make sure any of their IT staff could help make it go live and assist with maintaining it.

Current State

The SQL server database exists and provides all the functionality of the current excel spreadsheet but with the ease of use and look and feel of a Microsoft .NET web application. This is entirely scalable and functionality to provide a mechanism for patients to rate their symptoms following discharge from the hospital with this data inputting into the db is close to being complete.

TODO List

• Fix tests view
• Implement login
• Complete integrate of Twilio (or other similar service) to allow us to send an sms to patients asking them to rate their breathlessness in the weeks following their procedure with the responses incorporated into the database