Client | Duke U. Medical Center, Better Data with Custom Software Connecting Patients and Doctors

Client

The Duke University Medical Center is an Academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina. Since its establishment in 1930, the hospital has grown from a small regional hospital to a world-renowned academic medical center. Duke University Hospital is the flagship teaching hospital for the Duke University Health System, a network of physicians and hospitals serving Durham County and Wake County, North Carolina, and surrounding areas, as well as one of three Level I referral centers for the Research Triangle of North Carolina

Challenges & Opportunities

• Manual paper-based data gathering for research participants
• Poor data quality due to dependence on participants recollection
• Clinic visit required to gather data

Outcomes

• Self-service platform with ability to connect personal health devices
• Automatically gather participant/device data
• Visualizations for participants to view their personal health data
• Securely deliver de-identified research data
• Define and customize data consumption parameters
• Ability to overlay research data with clinic data

Services & technologies

• Fully hosted SAAS platform built on Amazon Web Services
• Development platform: Apache Web Server, PHP, Bootstrap
• Database: MySQL, MongoDB
• Operating system: Ubuntu Linux
• Project management, training and change management
• Test Management and Test Automation

Team

• Onsite (NC, US): Project manager, lead architect,
• Offsite (NC, US; Chennai, India): Development focal point, development team