VIVALOG KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
Vivalog is developing new technology that empowers radiologists to rapidly author and deploy their own decision-support libraries and research repositories from images encountered during daily practice. The Vivalog Knowledge Management Framework is an application development platform which leverages recent advances in web-based user interfaces and social collaborative technologies towards improved clinical knowledge sharing. We are exploring the following emerging technologies that will enable ad-hoc communities of end-users to organize and retrieve content according to their own custom requirements:
- Controlled folksonomies (structured vocabularies customized by end-users)
- Faceted drill-down browsing of clinical content
- Clinical relevance engines for automated cross-referencing
Our approach is to combine traditional content management solutions with clinical
connectivity tools, enabling clinicians to export clinical data into sharable repositories,
where it can be anonymized, annotated, explored, and transformed into structured knowledge.
The framework provides web-based interfaces for supporting the entire lifecycle of this process,
including connecting to existing clinical systems, organizing and aggregating data, generating custom views,
and enforcing fine-grained access policies.
We are developing a flexible, extensible toolkit for
constructing web-based applications that are custom-tailored to the unique workflow and data models of
the investigator's own custom requirements. Investigators are able to securely and selectively control
access to data and files, and deploy workflow management solutions that lead to increased productivity,
reduced errors, and improved process repeatability.
