Long Covid study apps
Led the team that built the mobile apps used in Long Covid studies.
HealthcareMobile
Apps for medical studies.
Long Covid research and opioid prevention.
Mobile apps for Long Covid studies, and a platform that controls prescribed doses and checks in with patients by SMS, with a dashboard for their doctors.
- ROLE
- Team lead · Tech Lead
- WHEN
- 2021 · 2024 – 2026
- WHERE
- Utrecht · USA
- CLIENTS
- Shared on request
THE HEADLINE
Long Covid
Mobile apps used in medical studies
- Dose
- requests allowed or denied by device
- SMS
- pain check-ins for patients
- Doctor
- dashboard to monitor patients
01 · The problem
Research and care both depend on patients showing up.
Studies need patients to report reliably, and opioid prevention needs doctors to see warning signs early. Both meant building apps patients actually use, with clinicians in the loop.
02 · What I built
Patient apps, with doctors in the loop.
Dose control
Prescriptions assigned to a dispensing device that logs every dose request, allowed or denied.
SMS check-ins
Scheduled questionnaires by text, with each answer linked to the dose history.
Clinician dashboard
Patients, doctors, pharmacists, devices and prescriptions in one web app, with charts of device events.
Backend for thousands
A modular NestJS backend with GraphQL and REST, built for thousands of users.
03 · Key decisions
Make it easy to keep going.
Patients first
The apps are built for the people who use them every day, not just for the study.
Doctors see what matters
Dose requests and pain answers sit side by side, so the patients who need attention are the ones doctors see first.
04 · Stack
Under the hood.
Mobile
- React Native
- TypeScript
Web
- Next.js
- Material UI
- AG Grid
- Highcharts
Backend
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- MikroORM
- PostgreSQL
- Twilio
- AWS S3
05 · Results
What it added up to.
- 2
- Clinical programmes supported
- ~30
- Backend modules on the prevention platform
- Thousands
- Of users the backend was built for
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