Patient Engagement App for Cancer Care

The patient engagement app is a powerful digital tool connecting oncology patients and cancer care teams, impacting the delivery of care and cancer survivorship. Donor support is needed to unlock its full potential for the 45,000 Nova Scotians receiving cancer care.

Empowering patients, fueling discovery.

Transforming cancer care

What if oncology patients could track their symptoms and share health updates directly with their cancer care team, all from their home? What if cancer care teams had access to a digital tool to easily track and monitor patients throughout the province? What if there was a tool to decrease wait times and improve efficiencies, benefitting cancer patients and clinicians?

These aspirations are possible with the patient engagement app — an electronic, patient-reported outcome (PRO) tool for cancer patients. The patient engagement app, developed by Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, is a tool that creates open lines of communication between patients and cancer care teams across the province, enabling proactive and personalized care.

With donor support, the patient engagement app can be used to its full potential — impacting patients and care teams while advancing research.

As cancer rates in Nova Scotia continue to rise, the time is now to ensure every patient can access this critical tool during their cancer journey.

Donors, like you, will impact the 45,000 Nova Scotians currently living with cancer and the cancer care teams who are providing life-saving treatments.

Watch the video to see how this project will revolutionize cancer care.

Video courtesy of Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub

Your support will help transform the delivery of cancer care.

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Enhanced Personalized Care

The patient engagement application will change the way clinicians deliver cancer care. It’s part of a larger oncology initiative through Nova Scotia Health – the Oncology Transformation Project (OTP) – that will bring oncology information systems together, in real time.

The outcome? Cancer care teams can easily track and monitor patients through the province, identifying the care needs and scheduling follow-up appointments and providing advice where necessary. The app triages patient needs to ensure they get the right care at the right time. Making the best use of available resources while optimizing patient safety and outcomes.

As cancer rates continue to rise in Nova Scotia, the patient engagement app provides an innovative approach meeting patient needs.

A cancer diagnosis is a life-altering experience.

Having a tool that keeps patients connected to cancer care teams 24/7 impacts their physical, mental and emotional well-being and health outcomes.

Here are some of the benefits when you support this project:

Provide timelier access to care and providing more tools and resources for patients.

Remove location barriers for people who live in remote or rural communities and have to travel for appointments.

Reduce emergency department visits with patients monitoring and reporting their symptoms from home.

Improve cancer care coordination across Nova Scotia, providing more open lines of communication between patients and clinicians.

If you or someone you know is a registered Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care Program patient, and you would like to learn more about the patient engagement app, please read these FAQs prepared by Nova Scotia Health for more information.

Patient Engagement App for Cancer Care

Enhanced Personalized Care

A cancer diagnosis is a life-altering experience.

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