title: A highly scalable information system as extendable framework solution for medical R&D projects.
abstract: For research projects in preventive medicine a flexible information management is needed that offers a free planning and documentation of project specific examinations. The system should allow a simple, preferably automated data acquisition from several distributed sources (e.g., mobile sensors, stationary diagnostic systems, questionnaires, manual inputs) as well as an effective data management, data use and analysis. An information system fulfilling these requirements has been developed at the Center for Life Science Automation (celisca). This system combines data of multiple investigations and multiple devices and displays them on a single screen. The integration of mobile sensor systems for comfortable, location-independent capture of time-based physiological parameter and the possibility of observation of these measurements directly by this system allow new scenarios. The web-based information system presented in this paper is configurable by user interfaces. It covers medical process descriptions, operative process data visualizations, a user-friendly process data processing, modern online interfaces (data bases, web services, XML) as well as a comfortable support of extended data analysis with third-party applications.
authors.affiliation: celisca - Center for Life Science Automation Rostock, 18119 Rostock, Germany. silke.holzmueller-laue@celisca.de
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Holzmüller-Laue
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Göde
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stoll
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thurow
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development