CityTech Releases New Web Application to Securely Manage Confidential
Medical Records
A new Apache Wicket-based web application, Cutaneous Lymphona Tracker, increases efficiency
in securely managing confidential patient medical records.
(Vocus) November 18, 2009 -- Cutaneous Lymphoma Tracker, a new custom web application developed by Jeff
Schwartz of CityTech Inc., debuted last month in Chicago. Known as CL Tracker, the application securely
manages confidential patient data from the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation (NMFF) Department of
Dermatology’s Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) Clinic.
Cutaneous Lymphoma is a general term that refers to various blood cancers that present themselves in the skin.
CL Tracker is an intuitive software product which requires very little training to administer and use. It securely
maintains historical records of pathologies, labs, treatments, treatment responses and other medical information of
cutaneous lymphoma patients. The CL Tracker enhances NMFF's electronic medical record (EMR) system with
the capacity to include cutaneous lymphoma-specific data that was unavailable in the database system it replaces.
CL Tracker is built using the Apache Wicket web framework running on the Red Hat JBoss Application Server.
It is deployed using VMWare to NMFF's existing VMWare virtualization farm. This architecture supports lower
deployment costs and minimal future maintenance.
"CL Tracker provides a complete picture of results with prior therapies, genetic, molecular, pathology and blood
results. All this information is crucial to make sound decisions about new therapies, tests to be ordered and overall
patient management," says Dr. Joan Guitart, Director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic, Northwestern Medical
Faculty Foundation.
Senior CityTech consultant Jeff Schwartz, who developed this application, is familiar with the unique aspects of
the disease since he was diagnosed with Mycosis Fungoides (MF), a form of cutaneous lymphoma, in April 2007.
“Upon my initial diagno