The Caisis Project: integrating patient care, research systems and workflows

Vora, Kinjal and Fearn, Paul (2007) The Caisis Project: integrating patient care, research systems and workflows. In: IAMI 2007, 16-17 Nov 2007, Kochi, India.

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Abstract

We have developed a scalable, open source, web-based system to integrate research data collection with clinical practice workflows. To promote innovation and foster inter-institutional and international collaboration, we freely distribute the system from a public website (http://caisis.org) and we have helped other sites through the process of evaluating, setting up and adopting it. Caisis was designed around structured chronological patient histories which can be displayed to clinicians and processed by computer algorithms. Algorithms process data to generate predictive models for recurrence of disease. Over 300 research datasets have been generated for publication using this system. Caisis is built using the Microsoft SQL Server and C#/ASP.NET platform. It has been adopted by 15 sites in 4 countries with over 400 users and is currently used to manage data for over 165,000 patients with prostate, bladder, kidney, testis, breast, pancreas, gastric, thyroid and colorectal cancers. In 2006 we implemented web-based clinic and surgery forms which are used to display and collect data for patient care, enter data for research and generate billing compliant medical documentation, replacing dictation. This provides virtual and real time access to clinical data without having to rely on paper medical charts restricted to a physical location. Our operational goals are to increase clinical and research productivity and efficiency, to improve data quality and completeness and become paperless by 2010. The project is supported by National Cancer Institute grant R01-CA119947 for improvements to extensibility, scalability, portability, ease of use and compatibility with the caBIGTM standard for application interoperability.

EPrint Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Research Data Collection; Clinical Practice Workflows; Web Based Application; Software System; Structured Chronological Patient Histories,Predictive Models,Caisis Project, Workflows
Subjects:	Information Science > Data Collection Information Science > Medical Informatics Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Data Collection -Conference Repositories > IAMI 2007 Natural Sciences > Mathematics Therapeutics > Patient Care Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Data Collection Persons > Patients Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Data Collection Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Data Collection > Records > Medical Records Information Science > Computing Methodologies Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management Natural Sciences > Science > Models, Theoretical Information Science > Computing Methodologies > Software
ID Code:	2490
Deposited By:	Dr Kinjal Vora
Deposited On:	29 November 2007

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