And the list removed my attachment. Will send directly.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Kale <[email protected]> wrote: > Thien, > > Actually, a great place to start would be the attached paper, "An > Informatics Architecture for the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care > Unit" from CBMS 2011, describing an effort to do data management at > Children's Hospital LA in a way that can scale to multiple > institutions, using OODT principles and components. There are a > number of VPICU team members on this list (from both CHLA and JPL) who > would be happy to answer your questions, on the list or offline. > > My perspective is the following: data integration and management in > large medical institutions and organizations is HARD. That is a > simple fact, and any company or organization who claims to have an > out-of-the-box solution is either deluded or lying. There is some > amount of DYI (do it yourself) that is unavoidable, and so -- in my > opinion -- it's best to go with something that gives you a lot of > interoperable but loosely coupled tools, components, and modules that > save you bits of work here and there but are also easily modified or > extended. From that standpoint, OODT and the larger Apache ecosystem > are quite suitable. > > As for specifics, I'd recommend diving into the FileManager and > WorkFlowManager components, though perhaps others would offer > different advice. > > Anyway, sounds like you're clearly heading in the same direction we > are, so we'd be happy to chat more! > > Dave > > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Nguyen, Thien <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm a medical informatics software developer at the Boston Department of >> Veteran Affairs. We are reviewing tools to prototype for use in our systems >> that would help manage, share, and track research information. We have >> genomic data, health records, phenotypic data, and results of nlp/machine >> learning techniques. >> >> OODT sounds like a nice package that we would like to try out, but, >> honestly, the website says very little. I'm not even sure where to begin to >> even try interacting with the downloaded source. Any direction on how to get >> started or lower-level resources to read up on would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Thien >> >
