Maternal Care Dashboard

The problem

Mothers' and newborns' health information was spread across paper records, devices and different facilities, so no one had a complete picture of a patient. Without a clear way to rank risk and escalate, early warning signs could be missed or acted on too late.

The solution

I built the backend and a web dashboard. Clinic staff use it to register mothers and newborns, record vitals, symptoms and notes, and work through a queue of risk alerts that a rules engine raises automatically. Supervisors and administrators get analytics, facility and staff management, and PDF export of a patient's timeline, and each facility can only see its own patients.

The outcome

I built the backend to last beyond the first contract, and it did. When the client came back in September for a mobile app, the app ran on this same backend. I extended it with new modules and database migrations without deleting or rewriting any of the original code.

Key features

• Rules engine flags high-risk mothers and newborns automatically
• Role-based access with each facility's data kept separate
• Analytics, alert queue and PDF export of patient timelines
• Public clinical rules page generated from the engine's own rule files
• Records still save if risk scoring fails; a background job retries it
• REST API documented with OpenAPI