Joanna Kasprzak
Chief Operating Officer
Joanna Kasprzak, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, has led over 30 of Apzumi's successful Digital Health applications. She is always happy to share both medical and technical insights and advice for your project
Software platform as a certified medical device
The Calpro project is a digital health solution that empowers patients with Crohn’s disease to monitor their condition remotely. The apps leverage image processing algorithms, to accurately analyze home test results for inflammation levels, providing real-time data.
Category:Virtual careRemote diagnosis
Overview
Project at a glance
Client:
Calpro AS
Industry:
virtual care, remote diagnosis
Market:
Noway, Sweden
Engagement:
Project Based
Scope:
Support & Maintenance, Product Scaling
Team size:
7 developers, QA, UI/UX, PM
Duration:
N/A
Partnership:
since 2020
About the Problem
The business challenge
The Calpro project addresses several key challenges faced by patients with Crohn's disease:
Self-Service Diagnosis:
Calpro empowers patients by allowing them to monitor their condition independently. Instead of relying solely on hospital visits, users can perform tests at home to assess inflammation levels. The ability to self-diagnose provides them with control over their health and peace of mind between medical appointments.
Improved Patient Experience:
Access to specialists treating Crohn's disease can often be limited, and hospital visits need to be carefully managed. Calpro helps improve patient experience by giving doctors real-time insight into a patient's condition based on test results. This allows healthcare providers to optimize hospital visits, ensuring that appointments are scheduled based on actual medical need, thus minimizing unnecessary hospital trips while ensuring timely intervention when required.
Our Solution
What we delivered
The Calpro project is a digital solution designed to monitor patients suffering from Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel condition. The app is intended to help patients track their health status outside of the hospital by using at-home tests that are similar in appearance to pregnancy tests. These tests measure inflammatory markers from a stool sample to indicate the intensity of inflammation, with results ranging from mild to severe (on a scale of 1 to 3).
Patients use the app to take a photo of their test results, which are then analyzed by an algorithm certified for medical use. This algorithm processes the image and provides the patient with a clear, validated result on their current inflammation level. The data is automatically sent to the hospital, allowing healthcare providers to monitor the patient’s condition and adjust treatment plans, such as scheduling earlier visits if necessary.
Client Credentials
The client's perspective
“Apzumi proactively fixed issues and improved security measures, demonstrating a commitment to quality and reliability.”
Baha ElmurzaevNorway
Key Features
Features under the hood
Medical device certification
Cloud-based medical data storage
Image recognition
ISO 13485, ISO 14971 compliance
IEC 62304 compliance
Timeline
How it all came together
2 months
Project Handover
The handover phase began with a review and analysis of the existing codebase, conducted in collaboration with the previous development team. This process involved extensive testing, quality assurance checks, and the identification of any areas that required improvements. Based on these evaluations, recommendations were made to enhance the performance and functionality.
1 month
Processes Optimization
In this phase, we optimized requirements management and project workflow by structuring processes in Jira and Confluence, where documentation and tasks are linked to tickets. A custom workflow was implemented, providing the client full visibility into task progression—from requirement definition to estimation, approval, implementation, testing, and release.
ongoing
Project Maintenance
In the project maintenance phase of Calpro, we are focused on enhancing the application by releasing new features and improving existing ones. We are working on significant optimizations that will further improve performance and user experience, and we look forward to showcasing these updates in the near future.
Technical Overview
The engineering behind the project
The Calpro project consists of two native mobile applications, one for Android and one for iOS, designed to read and accurately interpret home test results for patients with Crohn’s disease. These apps utilize native libraries such as OpenCV to process and analyze images captured from test kits, ensuring precise interpretation of the inflammation levels indicated by the test results.
From a technical perspective, Java and React are used for various system components due to their reliability and mainstream adoption, which ensures secure data management and high performance. These technologies were selected to meet the stringent security standards required for handling sensitive patient information, ensuring that the system complies with healthcare industry regulations. The overall infrastructure is designed to guarantee the safety and privacy of the data transmitted between patients and hospitals, providing a robust and secure platform for both users and healthcare providers.
Projecttech stack
Java
Backend Development
Kotlin
Backend Development
Swift
Mobile Development
Objective-C
Mobile development
React
Frontend development
Projecttool stack
Atlassian
Project Management
Slack
Communication
Figma
UI/UX Design
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Sebastian Zarzycki
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Sebastian Zarzycki, MSCS in Software Engineering, has over 18 years of experience in designing, architecting, implementing and overseeing software. He's involved in all key Apzumi projects.
