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Analysis of Web 2.0 Technologies for Medical applications: Turning I-CAN into a collaborative tool
(2009)
1.1 Motivation I-CAN do it! That is the motto of the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) and their instrument for the classification and assessment of support needs I-CAN. Since 2001, the CDS and partners are developing a tool to help support services to determine the current and future support needs of persons with disabilities. The current version 4.2 is the first web based tool and was introduced recently in 2008. However, the CDS is already looking ahead and is thinking about improvements for the following versions of their tool. With the huge success of Web 2.0 applications for the general use, also the health informatics sector got conscious of this technology and developed their own Web 2.0 tools. These applications, called Medicine 2.0 applications, are buzzwords in the health informatics community that appear in the press more and more often. In September 2008, the first Medicine 2.0 congress took place in Toronto, Canada and introduced the interesting concepts of Medicine 2.0 applications. The CDS is also interested in this development and is intererested in exploring how I-CAN can benefit from these new concepts. Their main concern is to empower persons with disabilities to get actively involved in their health care, according to the motto: I-CAN do it!
TYPO3 was initially developed in 1997 by Dane Kasper Skårhøj. That initial version cannot be compared to nowadays state however. The obtainable TYPO3 distribution is the software core. It covers the basic concerns of the system regarding to content handling more than satisfactory. TYPO3 offers solutions for semi-complex data structures but with a negative impact concerning usability until version 4.1. Inline Relational Record Editing bridges the gap between the repetitive elements capabilities of FlexForms and the old field type of TCEforms implementing relations. This is generally achieved by saving information in nice separated database records with 1:n or m:n relationships what FlexForms stored in just one big XML string. Thus it improves usability, extensibility, performance and consistency of information. The functionality of Inline Relational Record Editing is shown in this diploma thesis using a case-study of a travel business which provides bookings for many hotels. A hotel consists of different offers, such as a "wellness special" or "relax weekend". Additionally every single one of these offers can vary in price depending on the season customers chooses to book. Finally this results in a structure spanning three levels, beginning with one hotel as parent, many offers as first generation and also many prices as second generation. Inline Relational Record Editing was integrated in the TYPO3 Core of version 4.1 and has been downloaded almost 15.000 times over a period of eleven weeks.