The Sarawakian Doctor Who Would Rather Save Lives With Her App

She saw so many human lives lost because of the sole dependency on paper records, breakdown in communications among medical staff, and also insufficient use of IT in the medical world, be it in the UK or elsewhere around the world.

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“I have a lot of ideas about how to reduce human errors, because I feel in hospitals we’re still in the 1970s in terms of the implementation of technology,” said Dr Michelle.

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“I first introduced myself as a doctor,” she laughs, “and everyone was like ‘what are you doing here?’”

She will to relocate to London and take charge of development of the software full time at Google Campus, an office space in Shoreditch owned by the web search giant.

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Globally, over the past 48 hours more than 1000 people have died from HOSPITAL ERRORS.

She noticed that many aspects of patient care were left vulnerable to human error, and that the standard practice of writing everything on handover sheets was inefficient and impractical.

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Michelle’s original idea for SmartWard was to integrate all patient information into one access point. However, due the time constrains of Startup Weekend, Michelle and her team chose to focus on one of the main culprits of information transfer errors in hospitals, the handover sheet.

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“The SmartWard software is designed to store and retrieve patient records with ease – alerting doctors of patient’s allergy, wrong medicine dosages, dangerous drug combinations, and allows interaction from general practitioners,” she said.

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Through SmartWard, doctors and nurses can allocate tasks to each other with the option of adding deadlines for time-sensitive tasks.

Cross-Platform: Doctors will log in either from a DESKTOP or a MOBILE PHONE.

The software was designed and built over a weekend by a small team of technology experts, and it aims to reduce human error in hospitals by introducing a streamlined, paperless solution to patient care.

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SmartWard, the winner of a Telegraph competition for innovative mobile apps, has been awarded £50,000 by Seedcamp, a leading technology venture capital fund.

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After winning the event, SmartWard then captured an impressive third place finish at the Global Startup Battle 2012, a competition including the best winning startups from local Startup Weekend competitions around the world.

“I want to build a product that is so good it would be ethically wrong not to use it,” she underlined.

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“SmartWardApp has the potential to revolutionise patient care in hospitals,” said Edward Roussel, Telegraph Media Group’s executive editor, digital.

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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who visited the teams during the competition, said initiatives such as the Startup Weekend could help “rebalance” the economy towards technology

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The judges were impressed by a convincing product with real benefits to both medical practitioners and patients. We were also impressed by the efforts the team put in to create an app over the weekend that would help do away with paperwork and reduce the workload for busy doctors.

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The product is beginning a trial in an NHS hospital, which will be critical to prove their concept.

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“This has probably spurred her desire to achieve what she is achieving now. “We are all very proud of her,” she enthused.

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“We have always told her that when one sees something is wrong in the world, one should always think that there must be someone qualified to make it right. But then you realise, you are that person! Thus, you have the responsibility of making that difference!

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