1/13/26 - Ep. 10- Pluta Integrative Oncology & Wellness App

Scott Isaacs:  Hi, and welcome to today's webinar with the Technology and Innovation Group. My name is Scott Isaacs. I'm the Chief Architect and Senior Innovator with the Group. I'm here today with JC Conrad, who is one of our developers and UI UX designers. What he's going to be showing today is a new application he's worked on called Pluta. JC's been with us for three years now and does, if you've seen some of our applications like Cohort Builder and Snapshot, and you see the excellent design work on it and how easy it is to use, that's been working with JC's work. Now I'm just going to hand it over to JC.

JC Conrad: Hello. I'm going to share the screen. So today, I will be walking through the Pluta Mobile App that I designed and developed for the Pluta Cancer Foundation. My name is JC. I am a developer and UX UI designer with the Technology and Innovation Group. I like to focus on user-friendly workflows and seamless design integration. Today, we will review what our team was tasked with and how we provided a solution. I'll take you through the flow of the application with a quick demo of it in use. Then I'll give a brief introduction onto what's coming next, and lastly, any questions if needed. 

The Pluta Cancer Foundation had asked us to create a mobile app where their clientele could easily access their extensive video library found through their website. To start, I come through the website making sure to grab all the relevant content needed to make for a seamless transition into a mobile-friendly application. I formatted all of the collected data into locally serviced tables so that the application could dynamically push the data to the front end. Since the two platforms are not explicitly linked, it's valuable to have a visual connection between them,  so I used visual motifs from the web page to the mobile application so that the transition was a little more seamless for new and existing clients. 

Jumping into the application itself, this is the main landing page. Right away, we have access to the video library sections, each containing their associated video content and  at the bottom of the homepage, there are links to additional resources to help facilitate the connection between client and provider, such as a contact form, calendar for events and scheduling, as well as the additional information on services available. When using the application, we can navigate to a video library category, and the application will query the database to dynamically present the content associated. We have subsections, each having their own set of videos, all available with playback within the app. And at the bottom of every content page, there is additional information, a little description blur, as well as a web link directly to Pluta's website for the full scope on the topic. Software I used to create this application was in ExpoGo and React JS front-end, Python flasks back-end to deliver the data, and then I used Android Studio for testing and development. 

Demo:

 Now I will do a quick run-through of the app. As we saw before, this is the homepage of the app itself. There are links at the bottom, all of our video library categories here. If you click on a category, you have any videos available, additional information, you can toggle between the sections to view all the videos here. And since the as mentioned before, the Pluta website and this app are not linked, they're managed separately. There is a need for data within the app to be managed by the client when the content is changed or updated. This is where those data tables are created come in handy. This brings up a need for an admin portal so that they can manage this content, which is currently in development. Go back to this. So, I am working on an admin portal.

 I'll give you a quick overview of what that looks like. So, this is currently what the landing page for the admin portal looks like after an admin user logs in. They can modify content from within the application. So, if you select a category, you can edit category information, such as like the title, where the website is linked, what image should be displayed, what description, subsections, etc. You can add video content to specific sections. All you need is the title and the link. You can edit the existing content. The admin user can edit video information or remove the item altogether. And lastly, you can add new video categories with all the same information as before. When building out the admin portal, I felt it was important to consider all use case scenarios so that the Pluta team has full autonomy to manage their content at any time.

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Scott Isaacs: Thank you for that, JC. That's beautiful work as always. It looks fantastic and I'm sure the patients that utilize the Pluta Foundation Services will get a great use out of that. So, thank you very much for presenting today. And thank you all for watching this webinar in our series. And we'll see you next time. Have a great day.