Dataswiss Solutions AG |
INW International Emergency Medical Card |
"Iron Speed Designer saved us approximately $40,000 USD for the first year, including
application development and maintenance."
- Frank Mainzer, Chief Technical Officer for Dataswiss Solutions
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INW International Emergency Medical Card |
Dataswiss Solutions AG
Taegerwilen, Switzerland
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The INW International Emergency Medical Card is an international emergency web card for storing medical information. The
application first went into production on July 2005 and currently holds the medical information of over
5,000 people. The user base is growing by approximately 1,800 per month.
Each user enters and maintains the information himself directly in the web application or uses the INW
service. The user buys access to the service on a yearly basis and supplies his complete medical history.
This medical history includes information about previous diagnosis and diseases, hospital stays and out
patient services, family history and lab results. All that information is stored in an SQL Server
database to be shared between the patient and his local responsible doctor or, in case of emergency,
by a hospital.
The user carries the International Emergency Web card with him. In the event of an emergency, the card holds the
login information so that the hospital can access the important information without losing any time on
further investigations. Because of the INW card, the doctor can identify a patient's sensitivity to
medicines, such as penicillin, or can view his latest x-rays or CAT scans. All of the information
available through the INW application is exportable into PDF as well.
INW is available in multiple languages including German, French, English and Spanish.
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Application size and scope |
The INW application runs on one Microsoft SQL Server database with 34 tables. At present, the number of
records is about 123,000, though this is growing by more than 2.000 records per day.
INW has 16 web pages for end user interaction and another five web pages for administration purposes.
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The project |
As the sole developer, it took me just 12 days to complete this project. The majority of my time was
spent creating the administrative tools. I only spent two days developing the database and the
application, one day for the language translation, and two days creating the PDF exports. All in all,
INW was built very quickly and very inexpensively due to Iron Speed Designer.
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Code extensions and customizations |
We use an accounting application that required me to write interfaces integrating the tools. I did
implement several code customizations that enable users to exchange information among other users,
automatically create secure passwords, and provide login information for customers who changed this
information.
We included Crystal Reports and are in the process of finishing the Infragistics Scheduler integration.
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Page layout customizations |
Basically the design themes stayed the same, though I created my own buttons for various situations. I
also changed some of the .xls data export files.
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Iron Speed Designer impact |
Iron Speed Designer saved us approximately $40,000 USD for the first year, including application
development and maintenance.
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Next steps |
INW will soon be sold The Netherlands, Poland, France, and the United States, as well. We are about to create
several more Iron Speed Designer applications for internal use.
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About the developer |
Frank Mainzer is the Chief Technical Officer for Dataswiss Solutions AG in Taegerwilen,
Switzerland. He began using Iron Speed Designer in 2005. Frank has provided multiple language
translations to Iron Speed, Inc. which have been incorporated into the tool itself. Most recently
he provided both the German and Spanish (ES) language translations.
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