Abstract: Medical professionals diagnose conditions and prescribe treatments or tests based on a process called a clinical pathway. The criteria within the pathway are largely memory-based. The system here manages the process and allows the physician or other health care professional to focus on decision making and patient care using clinical pathways programmed as spheres in a network connected by business rules.

Abstract: A People Relationship Management system for an organization having multiple assets each identified by organization meta-data, the system having a management repository for storing connected spheres in a multi-dimensional model. The management repository includes virtual items, business rules and contexts and the model includes both hierarchical and peer-to-peer connections among the spheres. Each sphere contains information in the form of sphere data about a selected asset or a group of selected assets in both hierarchical and peer-to-peer relationships between the spheres. At least one current asset information repository is connected to the management repository and contains dynamically updated meta-data about the assets, the management repository periodically pulling the updated meta-data from the asset information repository to update and render current the asset information of each sphere.