According to the Canadian Cancer Society, half of Ontario’s population will be diagnosed
with cancer in their lifetime. Many patients being assessed for cancer however become
overwhelmed when having to manage information overload, many appointments with different
instructions and locations, and recommendations on how to improve their lifestyle.
This causes much anxiety and uncertainty among patients. Some cancer assessment clinics
offer some guidance in the form of paper-based patient navigators, which provide much
reliable information to patients but are limited in terms of dynamic updates to appointments,
opportunities for sharing knowledge between healthcare providers and patients, and
of patients supporting each other.
This thesis proposes a new web-based, mobile, and user-friendly virtual patient
navigator application framework named Care Ami, which incorporates the information
found in an existing paper-based navigator along with the new features such as remote
updates to personal care paths and calendars, personalized navigation guidance, sharing of
symptoms/medications information, and peer group support. Unlike existing solutions,
Care Ami is configurable to support multiple types of diseases (e.g., lung cancer and breast
cancer). This application is evaluated through testing and the usage of heuristic evaluation
guidelines related to usability, and a comparison with related work highlights its many
benefits.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/36031 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Chandhoke, Gursimran Singh |
| Contributors | Amyot, Daniel, Mouftah, Hussein |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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