Abstract
The OIO Project aims to provide secure, user-friendly, highly flexible, and cost-effective clinical research management system hospital information system information management tools for health care and research . Now in its fourth year, the OIO system is being actively developed by an international group of physicians and informatics researchers. It is being used as , outcomes management tool, and . Physicians, nurses, researchers, and other non-programmer staff are able to create web-based forms, author workflows, and perform data analysis using the OIO software. Security features include anonymized records, encrypted transmission, full access-logging and role-base access control at the level of each patient, form and workflow step. Forms, workflows, and patient records can be exchanged between systems via XML import and export. In addition to the integrated, web-based data mining and reporting module, data sets can also be exported in comma-delimited or XML formats to external statistical software such as SAS or SPSS. An online metadata repository at http://www.TxOutcome.Org facilitates the sharing of forms and workflows. Because of the international development team, multi-lingual support and translation tools are integrated into the OIO system. The OIO software is distributed under the Gnu General Public License as a free download from http://www.TxOutcome.Org. The OIO project has been made possible by Zope, PostgreSQL and other free software components. Because of the use of 100% free software, it is possible to construct a fully functional OIO Server for around US$300. |
