Features
As a direct response to the specific needs when developing a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) in radiotherapy and to the factors leading to successful implementation of a CDSS, the features of the VODCA package are the following:
- Optimal clinical integration into multi-vendor RT departments
- DICOM Server
- HL7 Server
- Import RT data in proprietary format, or from proprietary databases
- Right balance between simplicity and flexibility
- Modular architecture
- GUI solutions already present in the RT field
- "1 Click & Go" button to run scripts
- Batch and automated processes
- Fast
- Some-minutes-range from data import to report creation
- Integration into hospital IT environment
- Equipment: Utilise existing
- Software: Windows OS
- Data storage: All OS
- Easy to install by the user: Setup package
- Users
- Doctors, physicists, technicians, statisticians, and researchers
- One-person system
- Simple maintenance
- Minimise database administration time
- DICOM Server
- PACS
- RT Data converter
- Longitudinal Patient databases:
- Comparative planning statistics
- Planning quality control
- Longitudinal Outcome databases:
- Biological modelling
- Research:
- API (Application Programming Interface)