WOAD, A Platform to Deploy Flexible EPRs in Full Control of End-Users

In this paper we present the architecture of WOAD, a framework that we propose to make clinical end-users more autonomous in tailoring Electronic Patient Records (EPR) to their changing needs. We provide a short overview of the main concepts of WOAD and then we present the two visual tools that we developed to allow end-users to create their own templates and endow these with proactive and contextaware mechanisms. Finally, we outline the main flows of interaction that have been implemented in ProDoc, a WOADcompliant prototypical patient record.

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