Information platform for integrating clinical care

An informatics platform provides an architecture for integrating information from related patient information systems. The informatics platform may include a workflow tool that may be used to prepare and check information on a multidisciplinary committee conference; a visual timeline of patient events; the search engine is used for searching for patients with specific attributes; a mapping tool that can display disparate classes of clinical variables in a single chart; a virtual plugboard for enabling a user to identify relevant patient information of a committee conference; an image viewing application that can provide a comparison of images from different information systems; a structured reporting function which integrates patient information and committee suggestions aggregated by the system; an application interface that integrates clinically related tools to provide patient-specific references; a collaboration interface that facilitates communication of patient-specific information and records discussio