Student Programming Competition

Deadline for Applications February 13, 2012!

The winners leveraged the exciting features available in InterSystems Caché® and/or InterSystems Ensemble®.

2011 Winners

2011 Student Innovator
Award Winner

Student: Markus Lamprecht
University: Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (WHZ), University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Application: Communication Infrastructure for eHealth (CommIT Health)

In health care IT, there is plenty of data. But too often, this data is isolated and not accessible where and when it’s needed. The result: wasted time and money spent retrieving data, not to mention compromised care. “Communication Infrastructure for eHealth (CommIT Health),” a project at the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (WHZ), University of Applied Sciences, addresses this need head-on.

2011 Student Innovator Award Based on InterSystems Ensemble and Caché, CommIT Health uses a modular architecture to accomplish many tasks. These include: enabling the use of ID cards to quickly retrieve health care records across different systems; the integration of health care data across different hospitals and nursing facilities; elimination of the need to manually input data multiple times; and using IT to map geriatric care.

CommIT Health also uses Caché Server Pages, Zen Reports, and Dashboards to retrieve and present information in a clear and actionable manner. In addition, CommIT Health uses adapters to connect different systems, BPEL to support advanced business processes, and Web Services to connect to SAP.

Health care IT professionals worldwide can learn from CommIT Health. Markus Lamprecht, Thomas Nitzsche, Alexander Apel and advisor Prof. Dr. Anke Häber are to be highly commended for their work on this project.

To learn more about CommIT Health and the students who wrote it, please see the winning submission.

2010 Winners

2010 Student Innovator
Award Winners

Student: Elena Alexandrova and Denis Tazhenov
University: Kuban State University, Russian Federation
Application: Medical Data Acquisition and Processing System on Basis of Prolog Translator Embedded into Caché DBMS

The primary function of the application is to help doctors to make decisions or to diagnose on the basis of healthcare records. The system implements medical data acquisition and processing on the basis of a Prolog translator embedded into Caché DBMS. Given integrated medical data acquisition and processing, the system simultaneously works with internal data and external data sources (such as Google Health) and uses the knowledge base of internal Prolog. Using Prolog allows the System to reason about patient medical data and to make the conclusions depending on it. The system integrates the features of expert systems, databases and intellectual processing data systems built on basis of multiple knowledge bases. Also the system can use external EHR sources, such as the Google Health patient card.

2008 Winner

From left: Jim Breen, Artem Panchoyan, Terry Ragon

Student: Artem Panchoyan
University: Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Application: SteadySCM

The Student Innovator Award went to a team from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute for a software configuration management (SCM) application called SteadySCM. Built on Caché, the application addresses issues such as preserving data integrity, data duplication, project management conflicts and support of stable base code that are typically found when a team of developers are working on a single project.

The student team leveraged the advanced features of the Caché Studio development environment to create a solution that simultaneously minimizes development time while elevating software quality.

2007 Winner

From left: Paul Grabscheid, Anudita Kuksal, Carl Olofson

Student: Anudita Kuksal
University: University of Technology, Sydney
Application: Teacher's Pet

In 2007, the Student Innovator Award went to Anudita Kuksal from Australia. Her application, called Teacher's Pet is a lightweight database management system for small tutoring companies.

The Teacher’s Pet system was created with simplicity and ease of usability in mind. Such a system caters for all user types, no matter what their technical or administrative experience. Simplicity and ease of use was created by providing clear and concise instructions on the main page of each module directing the user to the link most appropriate for their action. Information in tool-tips was also implemented so as to aid in navigation. The graphical user interface design was created with simplicity in mind, with the user shown the main navigation menu at all times so as to ease their experience.

The choice of developing Teacher’s Pet using Intersystems Caché considered future business expansion and system extensibility. Should these events occur, the Teacher’s Pet solution is extremely easy to scale up thanks to Cache and does not require extensive rework or database migration. The dynamic design of the Teacher's Pet system means that it can be used in more than just a small tutoring business environment. As mentioned previously, its web-based design allows for distributed networking capabilities, thus allowing room for it to expand to fit larger scale schooling businesses.