Portfolio of Projects and Services

MESA - Web Based Medical School Admissions Application

The Office of Student Affairs and IRT Systems Engineering & Architecture collaborated to create a new medical school admissions application called MeSA. The new MeSA system replaced the mainframe application with a totally paperless admissions process. All members of the admissions team will be able to view, review and process applications without needing to copy hundreds of thousands of pages as previously required. Read More

Stanford MD Application Web Site

As part of the Stanford MD admissions process, the Stanford MD Application Web Site enables the applicants to submit their Supplementary Applications with additional information about their personal background, letters of recommendation and application fee. Applicants can also check the status of their applications and schedule interview dates on the web site.

Faculty Review and Planning Tool

Once a year, each assistant and associate professor in the School of Medicine meets with their mentor or department chair for a faculty review and planning conference. IRT is working closely with the Office of Academic Affairs to provide a web based application to record the results of faculty reviews, CVs and signatures electronically. The application will be available in 2006.

Medical School Lecture Video Access Report

All of the required pre-clinical courses at Stanford School of Medicine have streaming video recordings which are accessible to the students via the Curriculum Web Portal along with other course materials.

To enable faculty members to better visualize the usage patterns of the lecture videos and evaluate the benefits of such technologies in facilitating learning, IRT developed a web based application to present the video access data extracted from web server logs in a graphical and easy-to-understand way.

Repository Server

Recognizing the need for secure, reliable storage of large medical documents and imaging data, IRT has developed a document repository service now in use by a variety of IRT's systems. The document repository provides an advanced access control and auditing system to ensure the security and integrity of stored documents. In addition, arbitrary meta data can be associated with any stored document, facilitating advanced search and retrieval capabilities. At this time, there is no public user interface to the repository service. However, many of the public applications developed by IRT use this system behind the scenes in order to store and retrieve data.

Registry Server

Stanford University maintains a registry containing detailed information about persons affiliated with the university. Information in this registry can potentially be used to develop powerful and innovative applications. Unfortunately, the campus registry has limitations that make it difficult to use effectively, including no search or reporting capabilities, high latency, and a complex access mechanism. IRT is developing an enhanced registry service that overcomes all of these limitations. Over the next several months, many of IRT's applications will begin using this new service to provide enhanced capabilities to our users.

Metasearch Portal

IRT’s Metasearch project provides an online search portal that can simultaneously query multiple sources of content, returning results from commercially licensed, Stanford created and open source information. The project seeks to integrate access to a range of resources through one comprehensive and easy-to-use interface. Two versions have been developed to accommodate the different needs of researchers and clinicians, each accessing domain-specific databases, textbooks, journal articles and guidelines. After submitting a search term, the user receives a consolidated and categorized result set of all captured items. The Metasearch portal also frees users from the hassle of entering multiple passwords, seamlessly handling all authentication issues behind the scenes.

Clinical Trial Directory

The Clinical Trial Directory project meets a longstanding need among patients, referring physicians and internal audiences for a comprehensive online listing of all open clinical trials at the School of Medicine. Using this application, principal investigators and study coordinators can post descriptions of their clinical trials to a user-friendly web portal for easy public browsing. The system is being piloted with both adult and pediatric cancer trials. In the future, it will be extended to include all school departments. IRT is developing this project in collaboration with the SPCTRM group, Academic Consortium for Clinical Excellence in Scientific Studies, the Cancer Clinical trials Office, the Institutional Review Board and Office of Sponsored Research. A working test system is available online. For more information or to submit your comments, please contact Michael Halaas.

Online Survey Creation Tool

The Online Survey Creation Tool can quickly generate a fully HIPPA compliant custom online survey based on your list of questions. This application supports both public, anonymous surveys and Stanford-only, secure surveys. It offers complete data tabulation and summary reports in an Excel spreadsheet. Read More

Free Clinic Volunteer Sign-up and EMR

IRT is committed to the school's mission of supporting students who wish to contribute to improving community health. To that end we recently developed a HIPAA-compliant secure Electronic Medical Record (EMR), volunteer sign-up sheet, patient referral and lab followup tracking, and reporting system for Pacific Free Clinic and Arbor Free Clinic. Both clinics offer free health care to underserved communities here in the Bay Area, and are entirely funded for their ongoing operations by grants. Read More

KMC Knowledge-Base

The Knowledge Management Center (KMC) Knowledge-Base provides easy web-based searching and browsing of snippets of information on the Lane web site. An intuitive list of frequently asked questions is delivered and maintained using Blogging technologies. Blogging technologies allow a diverse group of non-technical authors to create and categorize semi-structured multimedia content. This tool allows library staff to draft and then publish up-to-date content to the web site without the need for traditional web publishing software. Once published, a web-surfer can immediately search or browse the information by category.