University of Helsinki
So we have started to break the rules. There must be a good reason why this blog is in Finnish, but I cannot right now recall what is the basis of this conduct. Well, since I am right now on my way back from an international meeting (in a non-phone/internet environment) and again a bit late with the blog, it seems OK to write in English for a change.
In this paper the senior author prof. Johan Lundin (FIMM & Karolinska) with his team present an integrated decision support system using smartphone and cloud-based software, which provides consultation platform for burn injury patient data collection. Consultation of a clinical expert on acute injuries can be crucial prognostic indicator for optimal recovery of the patient, and the aim of this project was to provide an interactive mobile phone application that enables transfer of both patient data and pictures to a clinical expert, who can provide aid to the point-of-care location.
When injured body surface is inserted to the system using a touchscreen interface, an integrated calculator estimates the affected body surface area and suggests for example fluid requirement and other treatment options. Further, a message is sent to an expert on call who can review the case and deliver further advice to the health care professional on location. Challenges, strengths and limitations are discussed that include patient anonymity (facial burns), acceptance of the application by health care professionals and naturally network coverage and functionality. I especially enjoyed the figures of this paper.
Lee A. Wallis, Julian Fleming, Marie Hasselberg, Lucie Laflamme, Johan Lundin. A Smartphone App and Cloud-Based Consultation System for Burn Injury Emergency Care. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147253 February 26, 2016.