September 14, 2010 - Allen Tien and Anocha Yimsiriwattan

Title: MDLogix Health Science Process Framework and Clinical Research Management System: Ruby on Rails and XSB

Abstract:
Bringing together health scientists, computer scientists, software engineers, and client-centered business process analysis and re-engineering is a challenge and opportunity.  MDLogix (Medical Decision Logic, Inc.) has made some progress in this direction, with significant support from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.  We have built enterprise scalable web applications for clinical research.  One of the main applications, the Protocol Schema and Subject Calendar module, uses logic programming (Constraint Handling Rules) as a key component.  We will describe the structure and operation of this module.  The current web technology can also serve as a platform for research and innovation in many areas.  We will present several examples.