Client
PotentiaMetrics is an advanced healthcare analytics company,
providing personalized and predictive AI platforms
Services
Product Development, Data Platform
Industry
Healthcare
Tech
Laravel 6, Vue.js 2, MySQL, Selenium, Docker, AWS

Challenge

Every year, millions of people get diagnosed with cancer, with each case requiring a unique approach to treatment. Physicians, however, often find it challenging to deliver personalized care due to a lack of access to relevant, patient-specific data. Currently, the bulk of prognostic evidence and treatment decisions in oncology rely on clinical trials, which typically omit this crucial patient-specific information. This leads to disparities in survival rates between clinical trial participants and patients observed in real-world settings. Our client saw this problem and set out to create a solution: an AI-powered decision-making platform for cancer treatments, enriched with a decade's worth of patient-reported outcomes. To bring their vision to life, they sought the expertise of a top-tier AI development team. That's when they chose ITRex.

Our mission:
Our mission was to provide an end-to-end implementation, transforming our client’s vision into a reality with a holistic approach, covering everything from back-end and front-end development, UI/UX design, architecture optimization, database support, to QA and DevOps integration, including the critical process of data migration.

Solution

In just seven months, ITRex designed and built a scalable, web-based AI platform paired with proprietary data to aid cancer patients and healthcare providers in making informed treatment decisions. The platform provides insights into the effects of treatment options based on a patient’s age, sex, race/ethnicity, health status, and diagnosis. It consists of three integrated components:
MyInsights, a predictive tool offering visual survival curves and comparing treatment effects, considering various patient-specific factors such as age, gender, comorbility, etc.
MyCommunity, a supportive social network for patients to share experiences within personalized communities
MyJournal, a space for patients to document their cancer journey from diagnosis to survivorship, facilitating comparisons with others’ experiences
The platform features an intuitive web questionnaire and versatile report-generation tools, allowing for easy specification of conditions and the ability to download reports as PDFs. From a technical standpoint, our approach encompassed:
Infrastructure setup and enhancement: Utilizing AWS for a robust foundation and optimizing the client’s MySQL database structure
Algorithm integration: Developing a bespoke algorithm for report generation and embedding best DevOps practices for efficient project management
Framework transition: Migrating to the Laravel framework and constructing a solid API for seamless component integration
AI-based Clinical Decision Support System
AI-based Clinical System

Impact

With access to real world patient-reported outcomes instead of limited trial-based data, physicians can offer more personalized cancer treatment plans
The AI platform empowers patients by providing value-driven information on survival, quality of life, functioning, and cost of the entire cycle of care.
MyInsights that processes up-to-date information on a patient's condition provides critical insights for making prescriptive decisions
Patients are participating in data gathering that is intended to become a sort of collective wisdom. This can lead to profound improvements in cancer care
The platform reduces the rate of misdiagnosis by employing Machine Learning. ML can distinguish patterns that can be neglected by human clinicians
I have engaged ITrex in many different projects. The team has delivered a number of high-quality enterprise-level software solutions which are at the heart of our business. They are capable, hard-working and flexible. I have implicit trust and confidence in them.
Jeff Block
Jeff Block
VP of Process and Technology
PotentiaMetrics, Inc.

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