Preparation of the Opal patient portal for widespread use at the Cedars Cancer Centre and for the addition of a caregiver component

Student

Directeur.e(s) de recherche

John Kildea

Start date

2020-05-04

Title of the research project

Preparation of the Opal patient portal for widespread use at the Cedars Cancer Centre and for the addition of a caregiver component

Description

This project involves two components: (1) preparation of Opal for the caregiver functionality in which patients will be able to share some or all of their medical data with their caregivers, and (2) general content preparation for Opal.

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