2012
Requirements for guidelines systems: implementation challenges and lessons from existing software-engineering efforts
Shah H, Allard R, Enberg R, Krishnan G, Williams P, Nadkarni P. Requirements for guidelines systems: implementation challenges and lessons from existing software-engineering efforts. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2012, 12: 16. PMID: 22405400, PMCID: PMC3342141, DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-16.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSoftware-engineering effortsSoftware engineering effortGuideline systemProduction-quality systemClinical decision support systemClinical guideline systemsDecision support systemWorkflow domainsAdditional requirementsNon-biomedical fieldsSupport systemImplementation perspectiveSuch requirementsImplementation viewpointSuch systemsProduction system robustnessImplementation challengesSimilar workRequirementsPrevious workSimilar problemsEffective designStudy of examplesSystemImplementers
2011
Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine, Designing Systems that can adapt to Changing Knowledge
Nadkarni P. Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine, Designing Systems that can adapt to Changing Knowledge. Health Informatics 2011 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-510-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSoftware systemsClinical study data management systemsBiomedical database systemsData management systemResearch support systemSoftware developmentDatabase schemaDatabase systemsExtensible designSoftware historyDesigning systemSupport systemManagement systemSuch systemsDevelopment skillsElectronic medical recordsNon-trivial examplesNew systemProblems oneBest systemDetailed projectMetadataOntologyCase studySystem
2003
TrialDB: A web-based Clinical Study Data Management System.
Brandt CA, Deshpande AM, Lu C, Ananth G, Sun K, Gadagkar R, Morse R, Rodriguez C, Miller PL, Nadkarni PM. TrialDB: A web-based Clinical Study Data Management System. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2003, 2003: 794. PMID: 14728299, PMCID: PMC1480035.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical study data management systemsData management systemClass of softwareManagement systemPre-existing softwareWeb-based technologiesOpen source formDatabase engineClinical domainsSuch softwareData managementCentralized managementDifferent clinical domainsChallenging taskSuch systemsValue modelingSoftwareRequisite functionalityIntranetInternetDiverse typesSystemTaskDomainEngine
1998
Data Extraction and Ad Hoc Query of an Entity—Attribute—Value Database
Nadkarni P, Brandt C. Data Extraction and Ad Hoc Query of an Entity—Attribute—Value Database. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 1998, 5: 511-527. PMID: 9824799, PMCID: PMC61332, DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050511.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectronic patient record systemQuery problemAd-Hoc QueriesReal-time retrievalPatient record systemData warehousingEntity attributesComplex subproblemsData retrievalQueriesValue databaseRecord systemSuch systemsRetrievalValue tablePatient dataFront endAttributesMetadataWarehousingDatabaseUsersData extractionSubproblemsIndividual attributes