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OBJECTIVE: We describe a simple method for creating teaching cases from clinical data, radiologic images, surgical images, and images from pathologic slides that are presented at tumor board conferences. CONCLUSION: The resulting interdisciplinary case files are of educational value both during and after conference presentations and can be used by clinicians to gather appropriate historical, laboratory, imaging, surgical, and pathologic data on their patients. This system improves the efficiency and accuracy in gathering patient histories when care is transferred among clinics, the emergency department, and wards.
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Access to Information , Interdepartmental Relations , Patient Care Team , Radiology Information Systems , Teaching Materials , Confidentiality , Humans , Medical Records Systems, ComputerizedABSTRACT
This article describes an innovative software toolkit that allows the creation of web applications that facilitate the acquisition, integration, and dissemination of multimedia biomedical data over the web, thereby reducing the cost of knowledge sharing. There is a lack of high-level web application development tools suitable for use by researchers, clinicians, and educators who are not skilled programmers. Our Web Interfacing Repository Manager (WIRM) is a software toolkit that reduces the complexity of building custom biomedical web applications. WIRM's visual modeling tools enable domain experts to describe the structure of their knowledge, from which WIRM automatically generates full-featured, customizable content management systems.
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Information Systems/organization & administration , Internet , Medical Informatics Applications , Software , Anatomy , Brain Mapping , Database Management Systems , Humans , Multimedia , Radiology Information Systems , Terminology as TopicABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: We sought to develop a Web service that would easily allow radiologists to create their own online teaching file cases from any Web browser. CONCLUSION: We created MyPACS, a hosted teaching file authoring tool that allows easy uploading of images and descriptive information from any computer with Web access. Radiologists may designate their cases to be public or private (viewable only by the case author), and cases may be retrieved on searching for multiple parameters.
