About Lowland Rescue
Lowland Rescue, the UKs second biggest Search & Rescue Charity in the UK, is composed of Trustees elected from its member teams, and Operational Officers who develop standards and governance.
They approached chilliapple to build a custom-built system to assist their medical teams. They were looking to hire Laravel developers to help them create a range of modules for their existing platform that provides management systems for their national Search & Rescue Teams.
The new modules would then need to assist Rescue Team Members to report every incident in detail including: incident information (location and Rescue Team), casualty information, treatments required, equipment used, patient observations (pulse, temperature, glucose levels etc.) and how the patient was attended to.
Technologies Used
We worked on their new system and also helped them add modules in their existing digital system. The project involved use of various frontend and backend technologies and database for smooth functioning of the final solutions.
Services we offered
Our experts were working under multiple modules that would help medical staff with digital reporting capabilities. Our expert Laravel developers collaborated with them to tailor each need to functional features in the custom-built system.
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PRF Recording
It was envisaged that the final data entry UI would be tab based, allowing the data entry user to step through the UI form in the same way as they would complete a form in the field including data such as Rescue Team, location of incident, date/time on scene and casualty information.
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Clinical Governance Recording
CG-CPD (Clinical Government Continual Professional Development) recording component would ensure tracking each item of development that a member undertakes. Each record is related to a user in the user database. This was built with flexibility in mind to allow Lowland Rescue to record non-medical CPDs in the future.
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Reporting and Metrics
This component was designed to permit users to build reports using various filters. The final report will offer output in a format that is simple to understand and can be extracted in multiple formats, such as XLS/CSV or PDF.
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Our Process
They came to us to tailor a powerful system that would digitise several aspects of their ongoing processes in the healthcare facility. The final solution was supposed to provide PRF Recording, Clinical Governance Recording, and Reporting and Metrics capabilities.
Requirements
Lowland Rescue came to us to create a custom-built system from scratch. They wanted us to tailor a system that facilitates their medical team with various functional features. They also wanted to hire Laravel developers who will collaborate on building modules for their existing systems that offer management solutions for their national Search & Rescue Teams. The modules will further help Rescue Team Members to report every incident in detail. The report will largely include data on the incident (location and Rescue Team), casualty data, treatments deemed necessary, equipment used, patient observations, and how the patient was catered to.
Solutions
Laravel was the chosen PHP framework, and chilliapple created a backend where the business logic for all the logging and reporting medical incidents are managed. The Clinical Government Patient Report Form (CG-PRF) component was designed to record every PRF that is submitted by a team member. The Clinical Government Continual Professional Development (CG-CPD) recording component was designed to record every item of development that a member undertakes that will further their clinical skills and knowledge. The Reporting and Metrics component was built to enable the user to produce reports by filtering the fields and producing the final output in a format that is easy to digest on screen and can be dropped into either XLS/CSV or PDF formats.
Results
Laravel is a great tool to build bespoke PHP projects. It is a simple, robust, and incredibly well-supported system, which has made incorporating Lowland Rescue’s current Laravel system more straightforward than other coding languages. Laravel automatically allows for form validation, data storage, caching, etc. Administration of these complicated medical incidents and records was the main goal of the project. chilliapple has developed a clear system of filterable data that were brought together within a unique dashboard, allowing defined user roles to add/upload and edit patient notes and dictations whilst easily retrieving information and downloading reports to a specified date range.
