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Executive Summary
CureBPPV, built by BPPV Team (Grayson, Keping, and Yilin), for Kristal Riska
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is the cause of about 10% of all the dizziness problems. The treatment of BPPV is simply a series of head movements that shift particles out of the inner ear, which can be performed in 3 minutes. However, only 10% of the patients diagnosed with BPPV receive immediate treatment - 90% of them are either given a handout to perform the treatment themselves or transferred to a specialist for treatment.
The CureBPPV app is designed to:
- Guide the through self-treatment of BPPV with videos, images, audios, timer and rotation sensors.
- Survey patient conditions after the treatment.
Patients diagnosed with BPPV, and especially those who want a free, fast, and convenient cure. Usually patients with BPPV are middle-aged or elder people.
- Cure the patients of BPPV - free and without going to the hospital!
- Change the situation that many self-treating BPPV patients cannot have their head positions right.
- Be a pioneering BPPV self-treatment mobile app.
- The user can watch a short instructional video for the Epley manuever after opening the app, and choose treatment for either left or right inner problems.
- The user goes through a series of treatment steps for the Epley maneuver, where users are provided with text, audio, and graphical guidance to move their phone and head together in correct positions and hold for some time, thus performing the self-treatment of BPPV.
- On the second day of the treatment, the user finishes an in-app survey on the conditions after treatment, and survey results are uploaded to REDCap for doctors to provide feedbacks to patients.
The client wants a mobile app, since rotation sensor is needed for treatment. The team decides to build a mobile app using React Native, and for both iOS and Android (but prioritized for iOS). Since React is great at user interface development, and React Native covers two platforms - more BPPVs getting cured!
The client requires the patient survey data to be collected from the in-app survey, and stored in a Duke REDCap project. REDCap is a popular database management system for medical surveys, and the client is familiar with, and already has free access to it. The team agrees with this.
Because there is no need to establish a server to store user data, no expenses will be incurred for rending servers. But the team might have to personally purchase an Android phone for development.