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Conclusion
The effect of an air pocket in the bladder during bladder
hyperthermia treatment varies strongly between patients,
and no relation was visible between effect size and air
volume. Generally, this leads to lower temperatures in the
bladder, potentially affecting treatment quality, and
suggesting that care need be taken to minimise the size of
air pockets during hyperthermia treatments.
EP-1730 Opal - The Oncology Portal and Application
J. Kildea
1
, L. Hendren
2
, D. Hererra
3
, A. Joseph
4
, R.
Maglieri
5
, T. Hijal
6
1
McGill University Health Centre, Medical Physics Unit,
Montreal, Canada
2
McGill University, School of Computer Science,
Montreal, Canada
3
University of Waterloo, Computer Science Department,
Waterloo, Canada
4
McGill University, Medical Physics Unit, Montreal,
Canada
5
McGill University Health Centre, Medical Physics, 1001
boul Décarie- Montreal, Canada
6
McGill University Health Centre, Division of Radiation
Oncology, 1001 boul Décarie- Montreal, Canada
Purpose or Objective
Providing patients with access to their medical records
and collecting patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from
them is of interest in modern healthcare. In Radiation
Oncology, no major successes have been reported and the
provision of medical data to patients remains a challenge.
With a patient who is also a computer scientist, a radiation
oncologist and a medical physicist on our team, we set out
to build Opal, a mobile phone app and portal for oncology
patients. Opal will provide patients with:
•
Appointment schedules
•
Check-in/call-in for waiting room management
•
Status of treatment planning/treatment
schedule
•
Access to personal health information (PHI)—
treatment plan, lab results, medical notes
•
Just-in-time educational material, specific to
the patient’s diagnosis, treatment and phase of
treatment
•
Contact information and a messaging system
•
Tools to complete PRO questionnaires
•
Maps and hospital information (eg parking)
Patient's committee module—
Patients for
Patients
Material and Methods
We developed a secure and confidential communication
system that incorporates data from our Aria database
(Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA), patient
authentication, encrypted data exchange and a cloud
server (Firebase by Google Inc.) external to the hospital.
Figure 1 provides a schematic of the data flow from Aria
to/from Opal.
Figure 1. Data flow for Opal. Firebase is a real-time cloud
database by Google.
Results
The design, development and debugging of Opal have been
guided in five ways: (1) a literature review to study
existing patient portals, (2) a patient survey, (3) a patient
focus group, (4) a closed beta-release to non-patient
volunteers, and (5) a pilot to engaged patients who will
provide feedback. Figure 2 provides screenshots of the app
that will be released to our pilot group of patients.