The Anesthesiologist app has been downloaded over 500,000 times on Android and iOS. It is used in nearly every country. I built it as a quick reference and calculator for anesthesia providers: drug dosing, pediatric emergency references, fasting guidelines, airway algorithms. I developed it during residency and it grew into a global clinical tool.
The app also serves as a research platform. I embedded survey instruments inside it using Survalytics, an open-source experience sampling module I developed and published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth. Those in-app surveys have generated datasets on global anesthesia practice patterns that would be impossible to collect any other way.
Other Tools
SUGARx. Perioperative hyperglycemia management app implementing institutional insulin protocols with real-time dosing guidance.
ANTICIPATE. Mobile reference for pediatric syndromes relevant to anesthesiologists: syndrome-specific considerations, airway guidance, associated conditions for rare cases.
PHI Scrubber. A tool for removing protected health information from research datasets. It handles the file formats you actually encounter in clinical research: EEG files (EDF, FIF, SET, BrainVision), NIfTI neuroimaging volumes, MATLAB files, images, and DOCX documents. I built it because I needed it.
Selected Publications
- O’Reilly-Shah VN, Mackey S. Survalytics: An open-source cloud-integrated experience sampling, survey, and analytics and metadata collection module for Android operating system apps. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2016. PMID: 27261155
- O’Reilly-Shah V, Easton G, Gillespie S. Assessing the global reach and value of a provider-facing healthcare app using large-scale analytics. BMJ Global Health, 2017. PMID: 29082007
- O’Reilly-Shah VN. Factors influencing healthcare provider respondent fatigue answering a globally administered in-app survey. PeerJ, 2017. PMID: 28924502
- O’Reilly-Shah VN, Wolf FA, Jabaley CS, Lynde GC. Using a worldwide in-app survey to explore sugammadex usage patterns. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2017. PMID: 28854547
- O’Reilly-Shah VN, Kitzman J, Jabaley CS, Lynde GC. Evidence for increased use of the SPA Critical Events Checklist in resource-limited environments. Paediatric Anaesthesia, 2018. PMID: 29285834