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March 05, 2008

Reconceiving Casepedia and Moving in a New Direction

OUR NEW GOAL: "You-tube for Grand Rounds!"

We spent the last few weeks looking at a few different directions to take Casepedia and researching what is currently available for each of the purposes outlined earlier (Adverse Drug Reactions, Patient Contributed, etc). After reviewing our options and feasibility for our project, we've decided to go with the Grand Rounds idea and focus just on connecting the UMHS departments GRs into a central repository. This idea could in the future be opened up across other Universities or countries. This is keeping with John William's suggestion during our design review of going 20% before we can go 100%.

We're focusing our interviews in the coming months on department administrators who have insight into the needs of those who view the GRs as well as faulty who have presented at GRs. Interviews are on-going; if you know a UMHS Department head or a faculty who presents grand rounds at UMHS, we'd love to have a chat with them. Let us know! Surveys will target students and physicians who attend Grand Rounds and faculty who present the cases.

We are exploring XWiki as a platform for our prototype. In fact, our beloved Bluestream might serve as the backend for our interface.

Maureen and Rupa are presenting the evolution of Casepedia at the SI Featured Information Research Student Talk (FIRST) this Friday, March 7 from 11:30-1pm in the first floor Dan Atkins room in SI North - this is open to the public; feel free to stop by!

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "computers are a lot like people; they go right to sleep but take forever to wake up" -Paul Saxman

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