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Integrating medical patient data with family trees to improve the quality of information
The way patient information is presented has been proven to have an
important impact on patient care. This paper presents a software component to be
integrated in a virtual patient record used in a Portuguese hospital. This component
supports genetic oncology consultations and aims to help the physician needs
to visualize the patient's family tree in order to diagnose hereditary cancers in both
patient and patient descendants. This system allows the physician to view relevant
medical information of the elements of the family of a given patient, add new
tests, as well as record new cancer situations that occur in any member of the patient’s
family. Besides the graphical display of the patients’ family tree, the system
also allows to differentiate between different groups of cancer by using symbols
and colours, register new cancer occurrences within that family network, as well
as information related to tests performed by them.
