Anesthesia Telemetry App

The Anesthesia Telemetry App is a team capstone project that is sponsored by UW Medicine. This project requires us to create an app that allow attending physicians to monitor multiple operating rooms. This addresses the issue of having only one attending physician in charge of multiple of operating rooms at the same time. The app also has functions that allow residents in the operating rooms to alert and communicate with one another when needed.

Through working on this app as a team, I was able to learn how to work in a team through the agile development process. I was also able to learn how to create an android app, both back-end and front-end, on Android Studio using Java, Kotlin, and XML. Another skill I learned include how to create and manage a database on firebase using a real-time database.

Development Process

App Functionalities

Login

Our app requires the user to login or sign up if they haven't yet. It is important to have an authentication system since this app is made for medical use. Our app uses firebase for authentications and uses firebase to keep track of users using the real-time database.

Monitoring Vitals

In order to follow HIPPA laws, our app uses VitalDB API to get vitals for our current vital display on the app. VitalDB provides mock vital data for us to use. For each operating room shown on the screen, we can expand the room to show the vitals charts - we can also minimize vitals charts by doing the same thing.

Room Functionalities

Each room contains an alert button and progress bar. The alert button is used to send alerts throughout the app to users to show that the current operating room is in need of attention. To do this the phone vibrates and the specific operating room on the app turns red. The progress bar is there to help inform every one of the current operation's progress of the current operating room. This help make it easy to keep track of all operation rooms easily.

Adding/Deleting Rooms

The user of our app can fully customize how many operation rooms they want to have. To do that they can simply add or delete operation rooms. This function is useful because most attending physicians don't always have the same number of operating rooms they need to be in charge of.

Dark Mode

For better user experience, the user can change to dark mode in the settings when they please. The app itself is in light mode by default so when dark mode is turned off, light mode is on.

Chats

Communication is important in a hospital setting. Being able to quickly communicate with your coworkers from room to room can help get work done faster. The chat function can be accessed on every room in the main interface. It allows the user to chat one another and see their recent messages. The chat is implemented so that the messages are stored in a real-time database in firebase.

Project Presentation Video (8 minutes)

Presentation

This project was created with my capstone team using agile development. This includes using a kanban board to track everyone's progress and weekly meetings with advisor and sponsor. Being able to work in a team helped me learn a lot about collaboration and teamwork. It was enjoyable being able to work with everyone in the team.