EP.FRI.745 Information Sustainability: SCR+: A bespoke module to optimise information flows around the Somerset Cancer Register to enhance the multidisciplinary cancer team process

Background Many surgeons work within multidisciplinary cancer teams. The Somerset Cancer Register (SCR) is a national reporting system for service performance which is in use in more than 100 NHS Trusts. However, the core system has not yet been optimised for MDT users or for the surfacing of clinical data for research and other uses. Methods SCR replaced our legacy cancer reporting system in 2014. Working with the SCR developers, we integrated our cellular pathology and imaging records with the SCR MDT outputs. We subsequently developed SCR+ to optimise workflows for MDT coordinators and information presentation to clinical users. Results Our HTML-enabled SCR+ software application displays all cancer patients by pathological type and year of presentation on dynamic histograms, for ease of visualisation and interaction. Every selected case is displayed in list order for each and every MDT meeting, with a fast hyperlink to our integral Lifelines EPR interface, to electronic pathology records back to 1990, and to our Breast Cancer Data System for relevant patients. Conclusions The SCR+ module transforms the access and visualisation of cancer workload across our Trust for all authorised MDT users, with appropriate data security. The agile programming methodology allowed us to build a sustainable cancer data system with further development potential. The product substantially enhances user experience, data recall and productivity over legacy systems. Close cooperation between clinically proficient IT teams and clinicians as the end consumers of digital health data systems yields significant operational benefits at pace and with very modest costs.

Development of Task Implementation Evaluation System Online Classroom Guardians with Extreme Programming Methods at The Noble Foundation Consortium

Evaluating the performance of employees in an organization is a necessity if the organization seeks improvement of their service quality. Konsorsium Yayasan Mulia working in the field of education is very concerned with evaluating their employee performance. One of the evaluations which have been routinely carried out is evaluation of homeroom teacher performance. This evaluation is done as a form of Konsorsium Yayasan Mulia attention on the student character building. The evaluation has been made manually spend a lot of time and effort, it is necessary for a system that can be the solution of the problem. The system will be built is the first system, that means it requires development method that flexible to changes.System development method used in this research is eXtreme Programming. This method is part of Agile Programming that emphasizes intense communication with customers to determine their needs. The steps of this method are planning, design, coding and testing.The homeroom task evaluation system is a bridge between the homeroom teacher, the principal and Konsorsium Yayasan Mulia. General overview of the system, the system has three user level, admin, principal and homeroom teacher. Admin can post an evaluation sheet and manage principal. Principal can manage homeroom teacher and homeroom theacher can report their task performance.The result of this research is a system that provides convenience to Konsorsium Yayasan Mulia to evaluate the task performance of homeroom teacher.

Visualizing Humanitarian Logistics Performance

Logistics management is crucial for the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian operations. Performance measurement enables practitioners to identify improvement potentials and management capabilities with regards to their logistics management tasks. While many performance measurement approaches for humanitarian logistics exist in the scientific domain, its applicability in the practitioner communities is rather low. Main reasons for this mismatch can be seen in rather few ready-to-use concepts and supporting information systems. In this article, the design, development, and evaluation of an information system for a Balanced Scorecard for humanitarian logistics is presented. The approach is embedded in the design science research framework following the agile programming methodology. The main characteristics of the server client architecture are described and reflected through experiences from formative and summative evaluations. The results stress the importance of the applied design approaches and support the closing of gaps between information systems designers and humanitarian practitioners.

Risk Management of Process Moving from Traditional to Agile Software Development

Agile programming is the popular software project development method in this era. Many company moving from Traditional software development to agile software development. They move to agile to reduce delivery time, user gap and improve quality. When use traditional method, we usually find big gap when we deliver to user. The solution of this problem is agile method. In Agile, we frequently come to users to tell them what we have done to their requirements. So the gap is not too big and we can solve it fast. But moving to agile software development is not easy. There are some risks when we move to new method. The data for this study were drawn from PT. XYZ. This company trying to move from traditional method into agile method. This company wants to move of the development method in all business units. The notion of this paper is to propose the risk management when company moving their method from Traditional into Agile software development based on study PT XYZ.

Chaste: using agile programming techniques to develop computational biology software

Cardiac modelling is the area of physiome modelling where the available simulation software is perhaps most mature, and it therefore provides an excellent starting point for considering the software requirements for the wider physiome community. In this paper, we will begin by introducing some of the most advanced existing software packages for simulating cardiac electrical activity. We consider the software development methods used in producing codes of this type, and discuss their use of numerical algorithms, relative computational efficiency, usability, robustness and extensibility. We then go on to describe a class of software development methodologies known as test-driven agile methods and argue that such methods are more suitable for scientific software development than the traditional academic approaches. A case study is a project of our own, Cancer, Heart and Soft Tissue Environment, which is a library of computational biology software that began as an experiment in the use of agile programming methods. We present our experiences with a review of our progress thus far, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach compared with the development methods used in some existing packages. We conclude by considering whether the likely wider needs of the cardiac modelling community are currently being met and suggest that, in order to respond effectively to changing requirements, it is essential that these codes should be more malleable. Such codes will allow for reliable extensions to include both detailed mathematical models—of the heart and other organs—and more efficient numerical techniques that are currently being developed by many research groups worldwide.