How does PortBlue build these “modules”?
Like a real live expert, PortBlue modules start by asking questions to help understand the situation. For example, in the case of a surgical center, the first questions may be; “what kind of medical procedures do you intend to do in the center, how many doctors will be using the center and what do you estimate your patient volumes will be?” After these initial questions, a PortBlue module begins to branch through as many layers of analyses of the situation as necessary to end up with a practical decision (for example, how likely is it that we can establish the key elements of a crime that it will lead to a successful prosecution), or complete a process (for example, the development of a hospital disaster preparedness plan). PortBlue works with its customers to design the application around their experts’ know-how, works with experts to capture and express the know-how in an effective and accurate way, and hosts the completed application so the user community, authorized by our customer
