Casepedia will be demonstrating an early version of the prototype system at today's GROCS design review. Presented below is a list of features that are done and those that we plan to implement by the wrap.
User Functions:
* Add and edit (non-collaborative) – FRIDAY finished case is static WYSIWYG, WANT FOR FRIDAY live-blogged case is a blog page
* Publish and update case studies (non-collaborative; templates)
* Comment on cases (anonymous or identified, forum format)
* Report as inappropriate (subject identifiable)
* Classify cases (use pre-defined classification, e.g. MeSH)
* Tag cases (folksonomy, recommend existing tags in case)
* Automatically suggest tags based on content
* Predictively suggest tags from taxonomy while tagging
* Page Templates
* Export pages (PDF, HTML, etc.)
* Find similarly tagged cases
* Attach in line video and audio to cases
* Rate comments
* Rate cases
* Rate users (? indirect from comments/cases) – compile reputation score from case contribution rating quality, page views, amount of discourse
* Search for cases (faceted and/or free-text)
* Edit/update user profile
System Functions:
* Authenticate users
* Maintain user profiles (identities)
* Maintain user roles
Wish List
* Maintain user reputations (# and/or ranking of cases or comments?)
* Authorize users to publish cases (credentialing physicians)
* Present custom UIs based on roles
* Verify consent or de-identification of cases
Posted by rupatel at 02:27 PM | Comments (0)
As we continue to prototype, we are refining an online survey that we will be distributing to physician bloggers. We are selecting the sample from a list of blogs tagged in Technorati (a blog aggregator) with the following words:
physician
medical blog
medicine
doctor
Any other suggestions for good blog tags are welcome!
An aside: Casepedia also presented a poster at the School of Information's Expo and received wonderful feedback. Stay tuned for a design review March 28.
Posted by rupatel at 01:06 PM | Comments (0)
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
Posted by rupatel at 06:58 PM | Comments (0)
Our group received feedback from IRB for our IRB application. They suggested a few updates and our team will apply those suggestions and submit them for approval by the end of the week. Once final approval is granted we can start our structured interviews and surveys with physicians.
We began a process of analyzing the features and content of other online health sites and case studies sites. We will be compiling the data and using it to determine which features should be developed on Casepedia.
We have contacted a few physician ethicists regarding the process of posting real medical cases online. There were some differing opinions so we will be meeting with them over the next week to discuss the process in-depth.
We started discussing the platform and what features we wanted Casepedia to have. Some of the features we discussed is enabling users to blog, upload content, and review and comment on other cases. We also thought it would be very useful for users to have search results that included results from Pub Med to also be displayed along with the results from our site.
Posted by shahas at 05:23 PM | Comments (0)
We found out today that our IRB proposal was approved for expedited review. If all goes according to plan we should get final approval in a week and be able to start our semi-structured interviews and send out our survey instrument.
While we've been waiting to hear back from the IRB, our group has been busy doing a competitive analysis on other case study and eHealth sites. The competitive analysis will help us prioritize what features we will focus on in our prototype. The team has also been doing preliminary interviews with UM physicians to get more information about how our case study repository might fit into their practice.
Rupa and I attended a fascinating lecture by Thomas Vander Wal who coined the term "folksonomy." His insights were valuable as we are investigating using both a formal taxonomy and a user-generated folksonomy in our tool.
We bought the name "casepedia.net." Come back soon for a link to the site and more musings on our progress plus a sneak peek at our fabulous logo.
Posted by mhanratt at 03:13 PM | Comments (0)
GROCS '07 PROJECTS [Winter 2007]
GROCS '06 PROJECTS [Winter 2006]
GROCS '05 PROJECTS [Winter 2005]
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