SocioWorks: Integrated Web Platform for Applications of Social Network Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：这个为期三年的小企业创新研究（SBIR）竞争第二阶段更新项目的目标，题为“社会工作：应用社交网络分析的Web工具集产品”是为社交网络方法及其应用创建一个技术和组织上可扩展的Web应用工具集，以改善健康和生产力-集成在单个患者的分析单元中，卫生保健提供者、管理人员和公共卫生官员。这一名为“SocioWorks”的企业级强大产品旨在满足市场对应用社会网络分析解决卫生领域问题和产生新知识的新需求。SocioWorks将被设计为使和促进观察，理解，工作，并改变基于关系的组织知识和流程在医院和其他医疗保健系统。它将支持基于社会网络的临床和公共卫生干预研究和计划，并将作为患者和家庭更好地感知自己和他们所嵌入的社会结构的工具。SocioWorks将对社区有价值，例如帮助家庭适应亲属的养育需求，并将相关研究和干预措施扩大到政策层面，以支持这种养育。该项目旨在开发和整合工具，以利用和扩展对同伴、家庭、团队、组织和其他社会结构如何影响健康过程和结果以及如何成为健康过程和结果的一部分的理解，并支持科学指导的变革。虽然该项目将专注于开发SocioWorks应用于老龄化问题，但在所有健康领域的实用性同样很有希望。在过去的几年里，网络分析在健康研究的一些分支中得到了扩展，并且在老龄化研究中被认为是重要的。因此，网络研究在干预方面的效用越来越明显。不同级别的数据（即，个人、提供者、医院等机构和公共卫生系统/管理）可以在建议的SocioWorks软件基础设施中聚集和链接在一起。正如为这一基于网络的软件所提议的那样，干预措施不仅将在其所针对的社会组织一级发挥作用，而且还可以纳入其他各级的干预措施，并与各级社会组织的研究和分析相结合。综合网络分析将帮助任何层次的人识别哪些社会网络类型或特征与哪些健康行为和结果相关，并为制定具体方法提供基础，以解决与老龄化健康方面相关的社会约束和机会。SocioWorks将促进在不同的环境和多个站点中使用社交网络方法，为用户提供编写和管理其项目、协议、程序、评估项目和数据的重要功能，以满足其特定需求。SocioWorks将为社交网络研究项目和程序化应用程序提供基于协议的任务调度和跟踪功能，例如医院的患者安全和质量改进计划。SocioWorks将提供多站点研究协作、基于规则的研究信息和数据集共享以及安全管理工具。它将支持采用标准方法与其他系统的互操作性和一体化，并将包括以标准格式导入和导出数据。底层技术将是可靠和可扩展的，使用计算密集型算法的客户端将能够使用应用服务器的计算资源。作为一个纯粹的基于Web的系统，SocioWorks将提供作为托管应用程序的全部功能，但客户可以选择将系统部署在自己的服务器上 公共卫生相关性：该项目名为“SocioWorks：应用社会网络分析的网络工具集产品”，将为社会网络方法及其应用创造一个高度创新的网络工具集，以改善健康和生产力。这一名为“SocioWorks”的企业级强大产品旨在满足市场对应用社会网络分析解决卫生领域问题和产生新知识的新需求。SocioWorks将被设计为使和促进观察，理解，工作，并改变基于关系的组织知识和流程在医院和其他医疗保健系统。SocioWorks将促进在不同的环境和多个站点中使用社交网络方法，为用户提供编写和管理其项目、协议、程序、评估项目和数据的重要功能，以满足其特定需求。它的架构将支持持续的变化和发展，以响应新的用户目标，需求，问题和要求，提供深层次的可持续创新。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this three-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Competing Phase II Renewal project, titled "SocioWorks: A Web Toolset Product for Applied Social Network Analysis" is to create a technologically and organizationally scalable web application toolset for social network methods and their application to improving health and productivity - integrated across the units of analysis of individual patients, health care providers, administrators, and public health officials. This enterprise robust product, named "SocioWorks"", is intended to meet emerging needs in markets for applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to solve problems and generate new knowledge in the health domain. SocioWorks will be designed to enable and facilitate observing, understanding, working with, and changing relationship-based organizational knowledge and processes in hospitals and other health care systems. It will support social network-based clinical and public health intervention research and programs, and it will serve as a tool for patients and families to better perceive themselves and the social structures they are embedded within. SocioWorks will have value to communities, for example to help families adjust to caregiving needs for a relative and to scale related research and intervention up to the policy level to support such caregiving. This project seeks to develop and integrate tools to take advantage of, and extend, understandings of how peer, family, team, organizational, and other social structures influence and are part of health processes and outcomes, and, to support scientifically guided change. While this project will focus on developing SocioWorks for applying to aging issues, the utility in all realms of health will be equally promising. Network analysis has expanded in some branches of health research in the past several years, and has been recognized in aging research as important for some time. As such, the utility of network studies for intervention is becoming clearer. Different levels of data (i.e., individuals, providers, institutions like hospitals, and public health systems/management) can be gathered as well as linked together in the proposed SocioWorks software infrastructure. As proposed for this web-based software, interventions will work not only at the level of social organization at which they are directed, but can also be incorporated into interventions at other levels as well as integrated with research and analysis across the various levels of social organization. Integrated network analysis would help people at any of the levels identify which social network types or features are associated with which kinds of health behaviors and outcomes, plus provide the basis for developing specific ways in which to address social constraints and opportunities related to health aspects of aging. SocioWorks will facilitate using social network approaches in diverse settings and multiple sites by giving users significant capabilities to author and manage their projects, protocols, procedures, assessment items, and data to meet their specific needs. SocioWorks will provide protocol-based task scheduling and tracking functionality for social network research projects and programmatic applications, such as Patient Safety and Quality Improvement programs in hospitals. SocioWorks will provide tools for multi-site research collaboration, rule-based sharing of study information and data sets, and security management. It will support interoperability and integration with other systems using standard methods, and will include data import and export in standard formats. The underlying technologies will be reliable and scalable, and clients using computation-intensive algorithms will be able to use computational resources from the application servers. As a pure web-based system, SocioWorks will offer full functionality as a hosted application, but clients will have options for deploying the system on their own servers PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project titled "SocioWorks: A Web Toolset Product for Applied Social Network Analysis" will create a highly innovative web toolset for social network methods and their application to improving health and productivity. This enterprise robust product, named "SocioWorks"", is intended to meet emerging needs in markets for applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to solve problems and generate new knowledge in the health domain. SocioWorks will be designed to enable and facilitate observing, understanding, working with, and changing relationship-based organizational knowledge and processes in hospitals and other health care systems. SocioWorks will facilitate using social network approaches in diverse settings and multiple sites by giving users significant capabilities to author and manage their projects, protocols, procedures, assessment items, and data to meet their specific needs. It will be architected to support ongoing change and evolution in response to new user goals, needs, problems, and requirements, providing a deep level of sustainable innovation.