Postoperative ambulatory monitoring — from the patient's home to the clinician's hands.
A Swift-based iOS application that collects patient-reported outcomes and wearable sensor data during home recovery, then surfaces structured summaries and threshold alerts for clinical teams to review between scheduled follow-ups.
Recovery Summary
5 patients · updated 4 min ago
The Problem
After discharge, patients recover at home for days or weeks before their next clinical contact. Complications — surgical site infections, respiratory decline, wound dehiscence — can develop silently in that window with no mechanism for the care team to know.
MedWatch closes the gap by turning the patient's smartphone and wearable into a passive reporting channel, giving clinicians structured data to act on without requiring the patient to travel back to the clinic.
Current Care Gap
No visibility post-discharge
Once a patient leaves the hospital, clinicians have no systematic view of how recovery is progressing at home.
Delayed symptom reporting
Patients often wait days before calling a provider — by which point minor complications have escalated.
Unplanned readmissions
Without structured home monitoring, preventable complications drive costly emergency returns and 30-day readmissions.
How It Works
Once daily, patients log pain scores, wound observations, and functional status through the MedWatch iOS app — prompted by a gentle notification.
Apple Watch data — heart rate, resting HR trends, activity, SpO₂ — is pulled automatically via HealthKit without any manual action from the patient.
Reported outcomes and wearable trends are combined into a per-patient recovery score. Threshold rules flag combinations that warrant clinical attention.
The clinician dashboard surfaces alerts and recovery summaries. The team can triage remotely — calling the patient, adjusting medications, or scheduling an urgent visit — without waiting for the next appointment.
Key Features
Clinician-defined rules trigger push notifications when symptom scores or wearable trends breach per-patient thresholds — enabling action before a complication escalates.
Native SwiftUI charts display daily symptom scores alongside wearable-derived trends over the full recovery period, making trajectory changes visible at a glance.
Clinicians manage an entire panel of recovering patients from a single prioritized view — acuity-sorted so the patients who most need attention surface immediately.
Full Apple HealthKit integration with end-to-end encryption. Wearable data is collected passively and remains within the institution's secure environment.
Why It Matters
Most postoperative complications manifest at home, not in the hospital. Structured remote monitoring creates the visibility needed to intervene early.
Post‑Op
Home Recovery Focus
iOS Native
Swift · HealthKit
PRO + Sensor
Dual Data Sources
Active
Project Status