The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) plays a vital role in accelerating action on cancer control for all Canadians. An independent organization funded by the federal government, CPAC brings together cancer experts, charitable organizations, governments, patients and survivors in an effort to fight cancer. It also spreads new knowledge about cancer, in an effort to accelerate a cure.
The Canada Cancer Trials website was based on the Ontario Cancer Trials site, originally developed by Endeca and Sapient for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Needing to expand the site to handle all of Canada, CPAC approached Endeca and RealDecoy to build a new national public website that would allow visitors from across Canada to access information about cancer trials in their particular region.
THE CHALLENGE
The new system had to be able to manage a complex workflow, be available in multiple languages across multiple geographic regions, and integrate external data from multiple data feeds.
The site had to cater to various audiences: health care professionals, cancer patients and families of cancer patients. CPAC also required an administrative tool to dynamically pull information about clinical trials from the US clinicaltrials.gov website.
THE SOLUTION
RealDecoy worked with CPAC to establish the business requirements for the site and dramatically expand on the functionality and capabilities of the original system. We also created an administrative tool that dynamically imports new information about trials from clinicaltrials.gov. This tool gives managers the ability to create and publish new trials as well as edit existing ones. The system was also built to accommodate trials for diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Working within tight timelines, RealDecoy created this public website as well as separate branded sub-sites containing province-specific trial information. Visitors are able to use a faceted search to quickly sift through thousands of trials based on cancer type, drugs and treatments.
CPAC now has a site that reduces administrative overhead and incorporates a number of business processes into one system—translation, editing of trials, etc. And, most importantly, this new site helps cancer sufferers across Canada find trials quickly and easily.
