An Innovative Care-improvement Smartphone-based Perioperative Solution for Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery

The iCareBreast BuddyCare mobile app is an interactive surgery preparation and recovery app for patients. It is a patient-centric care coordination and patient engagement mobile app that supports patients' perioperative journey. The app provides day-to-day information throughout the perioperative journey to patients from 2 weeks before surgery to 2 weeks after the surgery. Meanwhile the healthcare professional can monitor patients' use of the app. That is, the iCareBreast App provides patients with all the information about the surgery-related procedure and treatment via an efficient, user-friendly and interactive timeline. Patients will receive pop-up reminders daily for them to use the app. The objective of this app is to allow each patient to focus on caring for herself as a patient.

Routine care provided by the hospital includes general information regarding pre-operation preparation and post-operative care (e.g. wound care, pain management and physiotherapy).