Melbourne-based medical start-up Nebula Health has gone live with a patient engagement platform that aims to improve patient understanding of their surgical procedure and to collect patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as a quality improvement exercise for clinics and surgeons.

Aimed initially at private clinics but being trialled in a public hospital respiratory department as well, the platform allows clinics to send patients an SMS with a link to a video of their own surgeon explaining their procedure, along with written information. Clinics can then provide regular updates on what the patient needs to do in the pre-operative period and schedule post-operative updates as well.