Patient Watch

I started the placement by interviewing doctors to understand the current pathways in injection therapy follow-up. I developed a survey that was completed by over 100 doctors to gather quantifiable evidence about the scale of the problem. This enabled me to begin formulating a business case.

With further clinician interviews, I mapped the decision tree that doctors use when assessing patients after injection therapy. This would later inform my algorithm. I then mapped the UX while developing the UI and the “Patient Watch” company brand. All frontend development React JS. Meanwhile, the backend was implemented with Postgres SQL and Fast API in python.

I followed medical and data regulations - writing privacy and terms of use policies, a technical file for MDD compliance, and ensuring GDPR was upheld.

The validation phase entailed lots of user testing of doctors I interviewed in Phase 1 and friends who acted as mock patients. Quality assurance steps involved backend unit testing and frontend end-to-end testing with Cypress JS.

A Quality Improvement Project was organised with my local hospital and the web app has also been put forwards for a national study of injection therapy by the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.