NovaCair

NovaCair is a digital preoperative screening tool. At its core it is a questionnaire that patients fill in at home before surgery. The answers are analysed by a doctor on the platform, who then decides whether the patient is fit for surgery and what to watch out for during the procedure.

The tool was built to be used by multiple hospitals and integrates directly with existing EPD (Electronic Patient Dossier) systems — so whenever a patient completes their questionnaire, the status in the hospital software updates automatically. This allowed for a fast and smooth workflow, saving time and money across the clinical process.

The questionnaire is fully customisable: rules can be set so that patients receive tailored questions based on their previous answers. My role was Software and DevOps Engineer — building and maintaining features across the frontend, backend and server infrastructure.

Working in a medical context meant every change had to be considered carefully. Mistakes here have real consequences, which made me a much more deliberate and precise developer. The fact that the tool runs as a Web Tool embedded within hospital software allowed for quick release cycles and fewer dependencies on on-premise machines.

I deepened my skills with Vue 2 and Vue 3, Laravel v9 and PHP 8, and worked with Flutter for a period. Running workloads on AWS became much more natural here. The most unique experience was understanding how hospitals actually operate — how clinical decisions are made, what workflows look like inside a hospital, and the technical side of building EPD connections that integrate the tool directly into existing hospital software.