Student

Prasanth Manimaran

Supervisor

Raja Jamilah Raja Yusof

Collaborator

Madam Rohana Binti Mydin

Currently, there is a lack of standard practice for postoperative follow-up for patients during in-home recovery. After major operations, the involved patients fail to recognize or identify their wound complications before it gets complicated after getting discharged or do not show up for appointments due to time constraints. This is due to the lack of features like wound image capturing for remote monitoring, real-time monitoring or even appointment reminder in the systems that are being implemented in Malaysia.

Thus, I would like to devise a mobile application to monitor patients’ well-being and give feedback remotely, especially after major surgeries through features like wound image uploading and doctors’ feedback. These features help patients to upload their surgical site wound images daily for doctors to monitor and assess them from far away. Consequently, this fulfills the main objective of this project which is to make remote monitoring easier for patients and HCPs.

Scrum has been applied for the development and keeping track of this project. Furthermore, a literature review has been carried out to acquire knowledge regarding remote surgery and wound monitoring systems. The knowledge obtained helps to create the requirements for the systems together with the information obtained from the survey that has been distributed to the potential users. As a result, a few important features like push notifications, and the emergency call has been planned to be developed in this system. With that, these features act like a safety net for detecting early complications during the post-surgery period. 

In conclusion, telemedicine has the potential to modernize healthcare. According to the findings of this project’s research, respondents were willing to use m-health if adequate training and education were offered. Holistic approaches involving healthcare professionals and early adopters are essential for successful m-health implementation since Malaysians are still not very familiar with m-health.