A Smartphone App Which Speeds Operating Room Turnovers

Project Goal: Design and build a cloud-based medical efficiency system that alerts users to upcoming operating room turnover tasks.

Preparation time is valuable in a hospital operating room, or OR, but communication and coordination issues between personnel can lead to unplanned downtime between patient procedures.

This mobile application notification system, built with Flutter, Svelte and Firebase, incorporates real-time user feedback to improve the organization of OR turnover. A cloud-based server communicates with mobile and desktop browser applications to assign tasks, deliver notifications and update the overall room status. Staff members receive assignments through their mobile application, while the desktop browser application determines the work required for a given OR turnover workflow. Real-time updates of task completion status are used to coordinate the deployment of notifications.

The system centralizes the structure to initiate, track and complete OR turnover tasks