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The Canadian MPN Research Foundation supports research on myeloproliferative neoplasms, a group of blood cancers. We designed MPN Genie, the ecosystem that allowed patients to track their symptoms, and physicians and researchers to better understand them.

Client in Canada Healthcare sector Multi-platform ecosystem
At the heart of the product
MPN10 questionnaire Offline mode Physician follow-up Multilingual Data export Privacy
Physician reviewing data on a tablet
Context

Symptoms to track over time.

The MPN10 questionnaire measures the symptoms of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms. To get the most out of it, patients needed to be able to complete it themselves, physicians to track how it changed, and researchers to analyze data from a large number of patients.

The constraint Protect sensitive patient data while making it useful for research, on iOS and Android phones and tablets, in several languages.
An ecosystem

Multi-platform.

Mobile application iOS and Android: the weekly MPN10 questionnaire, symptom history and charts, even offline.
Tablet application iPad and Android tablets, with the same symptom tracking and synchronization across devices.
Web application For physicians and researchers: patient follow-up, PDF reports and anonymized data export.
Management console Bilingual questionnaires and quality-of-life questionnaires created without any development.
MPN ecosystem: web app, management console, tablet and phone
Mandate

Three audiences, the same data.

Appcom's challenge was to turn the MPN10 questionnaire into an app: patients answered it on their own, physicians tracked how their symptoms evolved to support better diagnoses, and researchers analyzed the data while protecting privacy.

The app also had to give patients better visibility into the progression of their symptoms and overall health, and make it easier to enter and share data between physician and patient.

The app had to work offline, sync across devices, offer several languages and allow data export.

Mobile screen: MPN10 questionnaire summary
Mobile screen: tracking symptom progression
What we did

A questionnaire turned into an ecosystem.

We designed and developed MPN Genie, a native iOS and Android app for phones and tablets that lets patients complete the MPN10 questionnaire themselves every week. One question per screen, a summary with the total score before submitting, then a history and charts filterable by period and by symptom: patients can see how their symptoms change over time. The app works offline and syncs as soon as the connection returns.

A web console completed the ecosystem. Physicians used it to follow their patients and print PDF reports. Administrators exported anonymized data for research and created new bilingual questionnaires without any development.

Additional quality-of-life questionnaires, configurable from the console. Biometric login and weekly reminders for regular follow-up. Invitations between patients and physicians, and color-coded tracking of how recent responses are. An anonymized research export, filterable by questionnaire and by period. Full data rights: consent, access, correction and account deletion.
Physician reviewing data on a tablet
Impact and results

Serving patients and research.

Patients at the centre Patients could complete the MPN10 questionnaire on their own, wherever they were, and share how their symptoms evolved with their physician.
Privacy first Designed to protect sensitive health data, the platform gave each user control over their information while supporting research.

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