A side project in medical devices
A side project in medical devices launched on August 13, 2018 with 267 votes, #47 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
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Mersey Burns is an iPhone and Android app that helps doctors quickly and accurately prescribe resuscitation fluids for severely burned patients in emergency situations. Created as a side project by a developer transitioning from military service to software development, the app gained adoption within the UK's National Health Service. The project demonstrates how to navigate regulatory approval of medical device software and led to media coverage, speaking engagements, and consulting work in healthcare technology.
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Mersey Burns is an app for iPhone and Android to help doctors quickly and accurately prescribe resuscitation fluids to seriously burned people in emergencies. I wrote it as a side-project in my spare time around 2011 when I was planning to change career from the military into software development. Along the way, my collaborators and I figured out how to get an app into use by the UK’s National Health Service and how to regulate a phone app as a medical device. It turned into a successful project, leading to media appearances, speaking invitations, development and consulting contact work with major pharmaceutical companies, and it gave me something to concrete to talk about when people asked…from chrisseaton.com
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