Software upgrade

As documented in the progress report, the enhancement of the iNvestigate website that was planned for this Stage was completed by the beginning of November 2011. This allowed the creation of multiple user groups, significantly enhanced speed of loading of cases and improved the interface for case builders, and provided for the addition of image links in the clinical scenario and the commentary. In addition, data from the RANZCR website called Inside Radiology was incorporated into the iNvestigate website, to allow general information about imaging procedures to be displayed when users select these investigations.

Subsequently, in the light of the reasonable criticism that no evaluation data for iNvestigate were available, it became clear that further enhancement of the software was required to:

• allow a user feedback survey questionnaire to be appended to case studies
• enable extraction of survey data for analysis
• provide a facility for users to request a report of cases completed, in the form of a PDF document.

The specifications for this were developed in May and the work is now in progress, with version 4.0 of the software due to be deployed next month. The specification document was prepared by Mr Clayton Gilbert, the project supervisor within UNSW Medicine Computing Support, and can be provided separately to QUPP if required. The work is being undertaken by Ms Caroll Pinzon, the Senior Developer/Programmer who was involved in Stages 1 and 2 of the Project.

The software upgrade in turn required substantial rewriting of the User Guide for iNvestigate. The new version of the online help file is provided with this report.