INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

This invention relates to an information management system for managing information which is present in two or more databases, which system comprises a computer program comprising instructions which provide a tiered architecture for linking to relevant information present in the two or more databases, said tiered architecture comprising a set of first tiers, said first tiers each defining an information grouping criteria and an accessibility level associated with information within the information grouping criteria, said tiered architecture further providing one or more sub-tiers associated with a first tier, said sub-tiers providing a comment relevant to information within the information grouping criteria and/or a link to information within the information grouping criteria which is present at one or more of the two or more databases, each sub-tier having a defined accessibility level and being accessible to allow addition of a comment and/or of a link to information into said sub-tier, or viewing or searching of information within said sub-tier only by users meeting the defined accessibility level, said tiered architecture further providing a format for addition of a comment and/or of a link to information in the tiers or in one or more sub-tiers that requires pre-defined attributes of the information before the comment or link can be added.