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My Acute Pancreatitis – OUR BRAND NEW APP
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The Leicester HPB unit has been working on innovative app projects since 2014, adopting modern technology to enhance and streamline patient information services within the NHS.
We recognised that at times patients are often faced with a bewildering medical pathway and many unanswered questions. Our aim has been to overcome this and to empower these patients by giving them the information they need at any time and from anywhere so that they can engage in their own care.
By utilising existing mobile app technology to develop a series of information apps. We have created a uniquely intuitive user experience that revolutionises the way patients interact with their healthcare professionals.
My Acute Pancreatitis – Released November 2021
My Acute Pancreatitis was developed to highlight an often-misunderstood condition that affects over thirty-seven thousand people each year in the UK. Acute pancreatitis can be a severe, disabling condition with life-threatening consequences as demonstrated by the fact that one in twelve patients will die from their first attack. There is a need to inform, empower and encourage interaction from all patients suffering from this condition. The contents of the App aim to address these issues, which affects a younger cohort and different demographic compared with those patients’ developing liver or pancreas cancer
The app has been designed to facilitate an interactive learning experience between the information and user to try and encourage patients to become involved in their own care. A brand-new podcast section has been added which further supplements the educational information in the App. Patients will be able to listen for the first time to other patients recounting their own experiences and personal journeys, which is invaluable, informative, and supportive. There are additional question and answer sessions with surgeons and nurse specialists involved in the care of patients with acute pancreatitis on a daily basis.
The team behind the App development are HPB Surgeons Professor Giuseppe Garcea, Lead HPB Nurse Specialist Cris Pollard, and Professor Ashley Dennison, together with Design Director Andrew Foxwell from AGF Studio Ltd Leicester. The team has raised all the funds for the App themselves from charitable contributions and has been working on the project since 2019.
Link to download My Acute Pancreatitis
My Pancreas
A free-to-download cancer information guide app. A dedicated information guide designed to offer information and support for those patients (and families) who are diagnosed with liver cancer, helping them through each stage in their journey. The app covers initial referral to treatment, how to manage symptoms and where to find further help and support.
My Liver
The second in the series of planned cancer information apps designed to create an intuitive interface and user experience, which ensured a patient-centered approach.