LYMPHA App
1 February 2022

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LYMPHA app

The shortage of health care professionals that I have mentioned previously (Patient autonomy and medical algorithms) affects mainly the low-middle income countries. One of the key concerns is severe skills shortages, where technology can be used to help empower lesser tiered workers. In these settings, low-cost phones and tablets, typically Android, are the platforms of choice. Therefore I develop an Android app for that shows what procedure would be appropriate to execute in a certain situation: https://github.com/RickardHultgren/lymphaapp

The app is in a rough alpha stage, but I hope you can get an idea of how the final app should work. The app loads a LYMPHA script. Then each node from the script is displayed as a screen, one at a time. In order to go to the next screen you have to click OK. There is an examle script inside the program with two nodes: crepitation and antibiotics. When you start the app reads the script and then this will be shown on your screen:

The second screen:

Do you want to test the current version? Then just download Kivy: https://kivy.org/#home