All members of the
Department had to be able to partcipate in the creation, and
publication of online material. A simple tool, requiring no more than
entry-level computer knowledge, was therefore necessary. Users had to
find incentives to use IntRad: use of single Hospital identity for
logins, possibility to integrate all personal data (e.g. email client,
agenda, personal web space, history, bookmarks, and more) and contents
(fig. 9).
Internet being a little more than
thirty years old, the World Wide Web a little more than 10, the
immaturity of web technology had to be taken in account in order to
preserve future validity of published contents. Exportation to other
new generation tools (e.g. a new generation RIS), or BolinOS versions
should always be an easy option.
Starting in january 2001, in continuity with previous initiatives, the project's goal was to create a new website for the Department of Radiology, both for extranet and intranet. Integrating documents from an older website, as well as integrating new media, the tool and resulting website would have to be efficient, sturdy, and secure, but also well accepted by users. The future website was not only going to be used by the Department's 200+ employees, but also by the thousands of other in-hospital, and worldwide users. The server would be a centralized space to find all documents (fig. 4).
A representative group of approximatively 10 pluridisiplinary representative employees of the Department started by building a consensus on the looks and navigation concepts in order to have an homogeneous appearance and ergonomy for the first new websites (fig.1). In order to preserve the possibility of a user-adaptable intranet, a modular framework was chosen to manage the IntRad portal.
The web publication tool shall never be the forefront activity of the Department's employees (except for webmasters), it shall optimally be a spontaneous temptation for users as it would enhance their work, not a time-consuming constraint. It would create a centralized publication space with user-validation management of documents (fig. 4). The system must also easily integrate with other computer systems used in the University Hospitals of Geneva (fig.3).
This site, including online applications, is built using our co-developed open source CMS named BolinOS, you can contact us for more info about this shared project.
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