All the employees of
the Department's have used IntRad since its creation, more than one
third of them has used advanced functions in order to publish or access
specific applications (fig. 12). Today users only have access to
advanced functionalities on the intranet, the recent installation of a
new extranet server promises many new uses for our extranet (e.g. to
remotely access databases, applications, schedules, ...) (fig. 6).
Using basic document management
plug-ins, users have been able to publish agendas, charts, plans, lists
and many casual-use documents. Radiology technicians, through the work
of Patrice Bregis, have in that way been the first to use the
publishing potential of BolinOS, and have definitely helped fine-tune
the ergonomics of the system. The agenda plug-in is used for example to
publish the integrated 'gardes' lists for physicians, can also, for
those who log-in, show the selection of these that only regards on
their personal agenda webpage. Using cut and paste, useful information
has been put on the intranet to the view of all, as for standard
templates used in dictation of radiological-interpretations, or for
many guidelines or bulletins.
Other pages include a search engine
to enhance search on the Hospital's main directory database, offering
wildcard and other search options not provided elsewhere. Others use
file storage capabilities combined to password protection, to have
access to binary documents or databases from anywhere in the Hospital.
Today's uses are many. There is even a webcam integration in order for
those of us who work most of the time without windows (the
Radiodiagnostic division is located in the basement), to prepare or not
their umbrella when going out... (fig. 12).
This Hospital-wide
project has been instigated by Dr. Mathias Tschopp, and is currently
maintained by Enrique Exposito and Ludovic Femenias of the Medical
Informatics Division of the Department (fig. 13). It includes all the
resources for Palm HUG users (wich offers many health-oriented Palm OS
based applications), including links, guides, contact information, as
well as the synchronised hospital handheld directory database generated
by the 'HUG directories' BolinOS plug-in. This is also where the
infirmiers of the critical-care department can and radiologists will
author and find their recently available handheld 'files'.
Hundreds of other
pages have been built. Some users have created quick notes using simple
cut-and-paste text editing, or have included Word and PDF documents for
others to download. Others simply use the system as a files-container,
gaining authentificated access to these from anyplace in the Hospital.
Forums have been seen used to manage group task-lists, and the
data-manager plug-in has been devoted to collect many data types, using
simple formular viewing mode. Some specific declinations of plug-ins
have been developed, e.g. to manage inhouse research projects.
Some experimental developments have
also been tried, using simple gaming-shemes, where ergonomics are
usually at best, letting us explore different approaches to web
data-entry and interactive computer data-analysis (fig. 17). All these
developments enhanced the function foundations of the BolinOS code
while some 'positive' approaches have been readily integrated into more
'serious' applications. As the plug-ins are customizable and
dynamically cloneable, the uses that are made of one original function,
have been most often declined to many others (fig. 15).
Since 2001, this
system is used to offer secure quiz / collections management (fig. 13).
It replaces standard film duplication of radiological images used in
the course of second-part FMH specialization examinations, and was
developed for these to be accessible through a standard web browser.
This tool offers advanced session-time management, user-tracking,
online questionning / answering, image zooming, and basic results
management (with Excel sheet exportation) (fig. 13). In case of network
failure, the CD-ROM exportation abilities of BolinOS offer a CD-ROM
based version of the quiz (without online security and tracking) (fig.
11). The use of the 'sessions' and 'action' plug-ins makes real-time
tracking of examinees, easy.
To be able to widen
the audience of Dr. Thierry Somon et al.'s award winning poster on
'Topographic Imaging of Orbital Pathology', the use of 'content
collection' and 'image collection' plug-ins have made easy the creation
of an online version, with zooming and image navigation capabilities
(fig. 16). Again, the CD-ROM exportation plug-in of BolinOS can here be
used to make a disk-based version (fig. 11).
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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