DOMAIN SPECIFIC AUTHORING TOOLS
There is a growing need for tools that enable clinicians, researchers, and educators to create and manage multimedia knowledge. The key to effective authoring tools is incorporating object schemas, classification systems, and workflow models that embody the unique domain requirements of each group of users. The authoring tools should be flexible enough that domain experts can tailor the interfaces to their own specifications, such as customizable data collection forms and user-defined structured vocabularies. The Vivalog Knowledge Management Framework is a highly scalable, efficient platform for medical professionals to develop systems that effectively manage the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of their clinical data.
THE CHALLENGES OF CLINICAL DATA SHARING
Collaborative research is hindered by isolated islands of connectivity and lack of fine-grained access control. Hospital firewalls and restrictive policies pose difficulties that are compounded by complex technical, social, political, and legal constraints. Researchers are forced to adopt ad-hoc mechanisms to manage these constraints, often resorting to overly restrictive policies in which all data is withheld from the research community at large. Vivalog is developing software that makes it easy for researchers to overcome these barriers.
