Visual Capture: New App for Medical Documentation

Gaining practical experience through practical projects is an essential part of the Web Business & Technology (now: Coding & Digital Design) degree program at Kufstein University. In their practical project, the students of the 2022 intake were tasked with developing a prototype for the new implementation of the existing mobile application Visual Capture from the company ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION

ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH, based in Innsbruck, already offers a mobile application called Visual Capture, which is used for medical documentation. Due to current strategic decisions, the app is to be completely redeveloped, both the application frontend and the backend, which is connected to the existing archiving solution via a REST interface. The app is to be developed on a cross-platform framework, preferably Flutter, in order to support both iOS and Android devices.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

• Setting up the development environment in close cooperation with the R&D department of ITH icoserve
• Definition of the technology stack based on Flutter
• Development of a sustainable architecture for the step-by-step implementation of the functional scope
• Implementation of individual required functions according to detailed plan
• Clean documentation of the implemented views and functions
• Transfer of the app to the ITH icoserve development environment

Hauptfunktionen der App:

• Connection to the backend by scanning a QR code
• Login via user name and password, fingerprint or face recognition
• Support for different languages (initially DE and EN)
• Patient search via barcode scan or classic search fields
• Visualization and management of medical multimedia documents
• Recording and editing images, videos or audio tracks
• Upload the images to the patient context

TEAM AND IMPLEMENTATION

The six-person development team passed David Petry, Daniel Hetzenauer, Michael Fössinger, Christopher Hutter, Maximilian Pfund and Theologos Gryllis. Prof. (FH) Dipl.-Informatiker Karsten Böhm accompanied the students throughout the entire process and ensured that the project was completed successfully. Through direct weekly contact with the R&D department of ITH icoserve, changes, feedback and requests were exchanged, which led to a successful and agile implementation of the project. An important part of the project was also the execution of tests and quality controls to ensure that the application works smoothly and meets the expectations of the users.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION

Overall, the teamwork was very successful and the app was completed and handed over with the main functions within the planned time frame to the satisfaction of the client. The Kufstein University is proud of the result of the practical project, which offers ITH icoserve employees and users in the medical field an effective and efficient solution to make their daily work easier.

Visual Capture is manufactured by ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH - A Siemens Healthineers Company, Innsbruck, Austria. It is still under development and is therefore not commercially available. Future availability cannot be guaranteed.

Link:

• ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH