#CancerSucks
Web app bolsters clinical trials for emerging cancer treatments
Custom Applications
Other Services
Healthcare
Their Challenge
When a cancer patient isn’t responding to a treatment, it really sucks. Fortunately there are many clinical trials of new treatments that bring hope—and hopefully cures. Our client — imaging research leaders at a world-renowned hospital in Boston — had an existing oncology clinical trial tracking app, developed over the previous decade, that had maxed out and needed to be overhauled for it to continue to succeed on a nationwide scale. They came to pod to make it happen.
Our Approach
Assessing patients and monitoring outcomes is a very complicated process: CT scans and tumor measurements are scheduled, tracked, and analyzed for thousands of patients whose lives are at stake. pod’s design, UX, and technology teams did a deep dive with clinicians, and administrators to understand and streamline a very complex business workflow. Application modules were built iteratively, with ongoing client feedback.
The Takeaway
Clean user-friendly design—with a robust and secure backend that’s extensible—has transformed this web app to be cancer center-ready and commercially viable on a much larger scale. It integrates with existing (and future) imaging systems. Since the redesign, our client has received many new inquiries. They continue to collaborate with pod to create and roll out new features. Best of all, this app will support validation of new cancer cures.
Technology Stack
The front-end was built as a single-page application with AngularJS, Lodash, and Bootstrap. The front-end talked to a server-side API built with ASP.NET WebAPI with Entity Framework providing database access. This architecture provided a clean split between UI and business logic, and allowed for simpler integration with external applications through the same API.
