Published Siriraj Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Excellence Center (SiELITE), Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, has launched a mobile application, “Siriraj Joint Care”, which aims to systematically expedite the information of the patients and internal data registry in order to overcome the existing incomplete and complex data collection process.
The structure of SiELITE, which is a “multi-disciplinary team”, consists of a team of doctors, nurses, physical therapists, out-patient department, in-patient department, follow-up team, research assistant team, and quality development team, and each team has discretely managed their own data. To retrieve some specific data is time-consuming and occasionally erroneous owing to the redundancy of the process. In July 2019, SiELITE started to solve the problems that they had encountered by developing an “electronic data management format” through “mobile devices” instead of a “man-made paperwork system” to eliminate all problems related to unorganized and scattering data, material consumption, incomplete registration, and form filling processing, etc. The application can even analyze the data and alert the users when some data is missing!
From start to finish, “Siriraj Joint Care” took 2 years in development! SiELITE members will record all information through mobile phone or tablet with self-identification via Siriraj Hospital’s server. This application is a user-specific application, so each user will see only the mandatory display for them individually. This application data flow and security had been approved by the SiData+ team and the PDPA governance team from Siriraj Hospital. For the SiELITE members, this application will help SiELITE to manage its internal data registry and management, in a real-time and paperless fashion.
After the app has been launched, the patients care system will become more well-rounded and cover all stages of care including pre-operative, inpatients, postoperative, and home follow-up periods. The complete and concise information about the joint replacement will help the doctors to follow up and monitor each and every patient effectively and the patients can receive health education about their new hip, or knee joints, and get the notification as needed. This application will guide individually for detailed treatment at SiELITE, achieving faster, better, cheaper, and happier from our service. Furthermore, in the near future, the application will be developed to connect and share the data between the 3 hospitals i.e. Siriraj Hospital, Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital, and Golden Jubilee Medical Center to enhance the performance of the robot-assisted surgery of the network. The team also wants to improve the application’s performance so that it can work with the telemedicine system and recognize patients who are in a “high alert” state. Overall, this application will aid in the future development of a seamless and defect-free joint replacement therapy.
The application development team would like to thank the Chair of the Department of Orthopedics, Prof. Apichart Asavamongkolkul, including Asst. Prof. Sunthorn Wongsiri, Assoc. Prof. Cherdchai Nopmaneejamruslert, Clin. Prof. Adul Rattanavijutrasin, Siriraj’s IT division, SiDataPlus, and RisePlus Technology Company Limited for all of the help and support.
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