16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'03)
Just-In-Time Database-Driven Web Applications
New York, New York
June 26-June 27
ISBN: 0-7695-1901-6
?Just-in-time? database-driven web applications (DBWA) are inexpensive, quickly developed software that can be put to many uses within a healthcare organization. DBWA garnered 73,873 hits on our system-wide intranet in 2002. They enabled collaboration and communication via user-friendly web browser-based interfaces for both mission and patient care critical functions. Nineteen DBWA were developed. The application categories that comprised 80 per cent of the hits were results reporting (27%), graduate medical education (26%), research (20%), and bed availability (8%). The mean number of hits per application was 3,888 (SD 5598; range 14 - 19,879). A model is described for ?just-in-time? DBWA development.