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Children with cancer frequently experience symptoms such as nausea, pain, and fatigue that impact their quality of life. Communicating multiple symptoms between clinical visits remains to be a challenge in pediatric care. In 2021, Dr. Lauri Linder and the GApp Lab developed Color Me Healthy, a game-based mobile app to support child-reported symptom tracking. The whole purpose is to understand pediatric oncology clinicians' workflows related to symptom assessment and EHR use to inform the design of a clinician-facing application that displays child-reported symptoms collected through the Color Me Healthy (CMH) app. The Color Me Healthy app was originally developed to empower school-age children to self-report their symptoms at home. Using principles of user-centered design, previous studies demonstrated high perceived usefulness with children regarding the app as fun and easy to use. The next phase involves developing a clinician-facing interface integrated with the electronic health record (EHR) to support clinical use of symptom data.