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SCOOP - The Social Collaboratory for Outcome Oriented Primary care

What problem does SCOOP address?

This project seeks to develop an distributed network infrastructure to support primary care research / practice improvement networks to answer questions from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data while keeping that data in the control of the practitioners.

We are working with a set of open source tools to help us do that. To find out more, you can go to our website or you can go through our development documentation here in this wiki.

What is the scope of this project?

This project will adopt / adapt / develop the software tools needed to deploy a network that connects EMR based practices to answer a range of clinically relevant questions. It will be open source and work with other open source components to rapidly build the infrastructure.

The project will leverage clinical data standards. It will not build its own data standards. For testing purposes, the project will work with at least two EMR products.

Who is involved in this project?

We have a distributed team working on this project with a range of experiences and skills - it makes for a great and lively group. The team includes:

Jens Weber

Morgan Price

Morgan is a family doctor and health informatics researcher at UBC Department of Family Practice.

Glen McCallum

Jeremy Ho

Jeremy is a graduate from UVic's Computer Science department.

Raymond Rusk

What development methodology is being used?

We are building these tools in an agile fashion. Our development process is question centric, wrapping functionality, features, and hardening the application as we address a range of questions that could be asked in a primary care research network.

Where should a new team member start?

For more information, see the project proposal. For clinicians and researchers, we also have a SCOOP Website, which is focused more on the users.