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Title: eHOA | eHealth Oncology Assistant
Author: Andolz Santacana, Olivia
Tutor: Lorente Puchades, Ignasi
Others: Casado-Martínez, Carlos  
Abstract: This End-of-Degree Project (TFG) aims to develop a digital oncology support website called eHealth Oncology Assistant (eHOA). The main objective of eHOA is the communication and dissemination of reliable and true medical information of the area of oncology to patients in radiotherapy treatment, in order to avoid the infoxication they suffer by searching the internet. This site is developed through a platform of content management system (CMS), known as WordPress, that will incorporate customizations through the implementation of new plugins, created according to the needs, functionalities and requirements of the Radiation Oncology Service of Hospital del Mar. Specifically, a module of "Custom Post Types" will be implemented to allow the user administrator to add medical content in a simple, fast and intuitive way. With this development and the application of new technologies in the field of Medicine, it is expected to improve significantly the quality of health. Well, the web application has the purpose of solving the patient's concerns/questions, allowing the creation, editing and updating of medical content in a simple and intuitive way, avoid waiting, uncertainty, ignorance, nerves, bad mood, anxiety, anguish and suffering, ... in people treated. The eHOA allows patients to have at their disposal specific content of treatments, healthy habits, medical advice, secondary effects, recommendations to alleviate these kind of effects ...The eHOA project is carried out at the Hospital del Mar's Radiation Oncology Department, together with the collaboration of the Pain Unit and all under the supervision and web hosting of the Hospital del Mar (HMar) del Consorci Mar Parc de Salut de Barcelona (PSMar).
Keywords: eHOA
e-health
web engineering
radiation oncology
ICT in health
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
Issue Date: Jan-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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