caREMOTE: The design of a cancer reporting and monitoring telemedicine system for domestic care

After receiving cancer treatment, patients often experience a decline of HRQoL (health-related quality of life). Physicians typically evaluate HRQoL during periodic clinical visits. However, out-patient reporting of vital signals between two visits could be used to interpret the decline of HRQoL. Considering that the vast majority of patients recovering from cancer are not in hospitals, it is often impractical for the care providers to collect these data. In this paper, we design and prototype caREMOTE, a cancer reporting and monitoring telemedicine system, which can be used in domestic cancer care. By extending a standard clinical trial informatics model, we build a prototype on cloud computing services that can be accessed by a mobile application. We aim to maximize the potential of caREMOTE to help medical practitioners efficiently monitor discharged patients' HRQoL and vital signals, and facilitate data reusability and system interoperability in future collaborative cancer research.