Welcome to the Fourth Conference of Research Software Engineering, held at the University of Birmingham. For directions to and during the event, see the campus maps page.
In the Aston Webb Building near to the registration/reception desk, a cloakroom is available in room G30 along with a quiet room in G31.
As many as 1 in 10 patients are harmed while receiving hospital care in high income countries, indeed 1.8 million incidents were reported to NHS England in 2016-2017. Taking inspiration from aviation safety procedures, academics at the University of Leicester have been trying to track and monitor patient safety as both a learning tool for the medical students but also to improve the patient experience. However, the researchers’ initial implementation was based on a manual process in which both data-gathering and data-analysis were carried out by hand. In this talk I will share how I converted the paper forms into a mobile app (for data gathering) and an accompanying web app for data analysis. I will discuss the frameworks I used to do this, Ionic and Django, and the lessons I learnt along the way. I will also discuss how the academics and I worked together, how this benefited the project and ensured a successful outcome. I hope my experience can encourage and help other RSEs who may be facing a similar project in the future.
