Title of the research project
Development of a standalone web application to facilitate the exploration of peer-to-peer matching algorithms and their associated benefits and drawbacks
Description
The cancer experience and the uncertainty surrounding it is anxiety provoking. One way in which the non-clinical uncertainty of the cancer experience can be reduced is through peer support. The Opal Health Informatics Group seeks to evaluate the efficacy of an artificial intelligence-based peer support matching algorithm in the pre-existing patient portal Opal in the hopes of facilitating peer support programs (for cancer patients and their caregivers) in Quebec.
Our work focused on the architectural design, development, and demonstration of a proof of concept stand-alone web application used to demonstrate the results of several varieties of AI-powered matching algorithms on test patient data.
