1st Meeting with Supervisor

Date : 19th May 2007 (Saturday) 10:30am
Location : SIM
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron, Mr. Liaw Chun Huei

Today is our first meeting with our project supervisor, Mr Liaw, in SIM. He has given us the project plan and discussed with us the various possible functionalities of the health web portal that we may research on. Mr Liaw has also provided us with some suggestions on the focus of the web portal and technologies used (i.e. Ajax and MathsML). It was only a short discussion and we will continue to research on the possible technologies and functionalities of the project on our own and propose our solution in the project proposal.

Research Areas

• Ajax
• Health industries
• MathsML
• JetSpeed
• Existing health portals

Suggested Project Scope and Purpose

• Environment for sharing of information
• An area for the specialist (may and may not be released for the public)
• Virtual community (drag/drop and upload pictures, ease of publishing pictures)
• Step by step wizard for publishing
• Templates for the website (allow customisation without the knowledge of programming)
• Allow the input of chemical equations (see MathsML)
• Intranet for the medical specialist will be the product's main purpose
• Report generation (medical reports, medical results and analysis, report template)
• Include timestamp and signature in the report
• Allow customisation for access rights of each category/document
• Include SMS/Email Notification (eg. alert user when a medical report is done)
• Search engine (eg. search medical reports)

Project Timeline/Guidelines

• Proposal can be 2-3 pages, point form
• To be submited to Mr. Liaw by email
• Project website for demo should be up by week 10
• Include system architecture design/network design
• Week 10 to produce the prototype (eg. screenshots, interface)
• Follow the standards of proposal (eg. include group number in header, footer, filename)
• Proposed to meet up with Mr. Liaw again after exams in SIM

Other Items Discussed

• Proposed the use of JetSpeed
• Need to decide on an area/domain of focus for the health portal (eg. cancer, researchers, doctors)
• Need to decide on the server and platform of the project