Haematology Database

In Australia, the individual states have population-based cancer registries, as mandated by law. These databases collect broad-based demographic data but are too blunt for assessing clinical treatment outcomes. A need arose for a specialised database to collect additional data in order to be able to answer questions relating to treatent outcomes (e.g.: do Australians have the expected outcomes from their leukaemia treatment? Which regimes are the most effective?)

This project produced a data-entry web interface over a SQL Server database. The database was designed so that the haematology-specific data inherited from a base set of fields mandated by the NCCI. This design allows the system to be extended to other tumour specialities over time, providing cancer-specific clinical outcomes value whilst collecting the more general clinical outcomes data mandated by NCCI.

The application had to deal with issues around patient confidentiality and de-identification, whilst providing a slick and sophisticated user experience for an audience intolerant of messy interfaces. During development, the automated build machinery was configured to upload a copy of the interface to a world-facing location for continuous evaluation and feedback from the target user community.