Microsoft + Intel Remote Patient Monitoring

• Platforms Web, Android
• Company WWT, Microsoft, Intel
• Period 2021

As part of Microsoft's Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft and Intel approached WWT to design and develop a proof of concept app that would demonstate the power of the Azure Stack Edge.

We set about conducting workshops with Microsoft, Intel, US healthcare providers and WWT's own healthcare advisors, to devise a suitable real world problem to tackle, and landed on remote patient monitoring for congestive heart failure patients, using Azure Stack Edge powered machine learning algorithms to help clinicians pre-emptively target acute congestive heart failure patients using a clinician web dashboard and a Bluetooth-enabled mobile app for remote patients to upload their vital readings.

As part of the conference deliverables, the proof of concept needed to be fully functional and open sourced, available to developers on Github. Our small agile delivery team consisted of myself as the sole designer and front-end engineer, with four full-stack and DevOps engineers. Within the two month project timeline, we went through a full cycle of ideation, product design, workshopping and testing with doctors, then developing and delivering two complete apps - a clinician dashboard web app created with React and using Microsoft's own Fluent UI library as the foundation for the UI, as well as a React Native mobile app for patients to connect with their Bluetooth-enabled OMRON Blood Pressure monitor and sync the readings to the cloud.

After the successful presentation at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference, we hope the proof of concept both demonstrates the power of compute at the edge and leads to further application development to improve real patient outcomes.