New iPhone app on Safe Surgery coming!

I couldn’t resist the temptation of creating a simple no-nonsense surgical checklist for the iPhone. I searched the App Store, and I could only find Safe OR from QxMD. Although I think that QxMD is making pretty cool medical software for mobile devices, their surgical checklist is -in my humble opinion- overpaid, and unnecessarily complicated.

So I think I can do better? Yes, I can! And it won’t even take that much time. I started creating the graphical user interface based on the official WHO checklist, and decided that scrolling is not the way to go. I think that each section can fit into one screen, like:

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Of course, this is rather rudimentary. The layout definitely needs some improvement (read: alignment) and some details. Then I will add some functionality. I do have a nice idea for a practical solution that Safe OR does not offer -as far as I know- but I don’t know if I will include it in the first version of Safe Surgery.

I’d say… I’ll keep you posted!