Crowdsourced wisdom for performing medical procedures
The mantra of see one, do one, teach one in performing routine but potential dangerous and uncomfortable medical procedures pervade the culture of the medical profession. Often the least experienced person gets supervised by the second least experienced person after which they no longer get observed for the rest of their careers.
While guides and videos are available on the internet, there is currently no single service that allows health care professionals to exchange tips and tricks on improving their technique towards safer and more effective procedures while maximising patient comfort. SharpScratch is our solution for this.
This project was built during the NHS Hack Day Oxford 26-27th January of 2013 at John Radcliffe Hospital.
Idea proposed by Wai Keong Wong, Specialist Registrar in Haematology at Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. Preliminary discussion.
Coordinated by Maria Del Mar Yacaman, Patient and Public Engagement at Cambridge Healthcare Ltd.
Back-end development and infrastructure provisioning by Gerhard Lazu, Lead Engineer at Cambridge Healthcare Ltd.
Front-end development by Szymon Witamborski, Front-end Developer at Cambridge Healthcare Ltd.
The API is self-documenting
The app did not have to be taken live, it could have been demo-ed locally.
Do not do live demos, take time to record a screencast and play that. The chances of something going wrong are significant, in particular during the demo (as happened to us).