Authors:
João Rafael Almeida
;
Ricardo Ribeiro
and
José Luis Oliveira
Affiliation:
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Task Management, Workflow Management, Clinical Studies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Software Systems in Medicine
Abstract:
Task management systems are crucial tools in modern organizations, by simplifying the coordination of teams
and their work. Those tools were developed mainly for task scheduling, assignment, follow-up and accountability.
Then again, scientific workflow systems also appeared to help putting together a set of computational
processes through the pipeline of inputs and outputs from each, creating in the end a more complex processing
workflow. However, there is sometimes a lack of solutions that combine both manually operated tasks with
automatic processes, in the same workflow system. In this paper, we present a web-based platform that incorporates
some of the best functionalities of both systems, addressing the collaborative needs of a task manager
with well-structured computational pipelines. The system is currently being used by a European consortium
for the coordination of clinical studies.