LUMC Care app

Patients with heart problems and other risk groups, such as diabetic patients or pregnant women, are monitored by their doctors. They have to go to the hospital regularly to have their blood pressure measured, among other things. These results are then entered into the patient's file, manually, by the doctor. This takes quite a lot of time, for both the patient and the doctor. The LUMC Care app allows patients to take readings themselves, and doctors no longer have to enter this manually.

For the development of the app, we worked together with the national centre of expertise Pharos, whose mission is to reduce health inequalities in the Netherlands. During the process, we presented ideas and prototypes to potential users: for example, we made the app suitable for patients with different educational levels, cultural backgrounds and health skills.

The app gives patients a more active role, more awareness and responsibility for their treatment. They can take their measurements at home, in a familiar environment. For cardiologists, the app is also a godsend: it takes less time, and the data goes directly into the Electronic Patient File. Data no longer has to be entered manually. If the data shows that there are deviations, this is immediately noticed by a digital assistant. This way, patients are helped even better and faster.