  In this paper, we present BIMS (Biomedical Information Management System).
BIMS is a software architecture designed to provide a flexible computational
framework to manage the information needs of a wide range of biomedical
research projects. The main goal is to facilitate the clinicians' job in data
entry, and researcher's tasks in data management, in high data quality
biomedical research projects. The BIMS architecture has been designed following
the two-level modeling paradigm, a promising methodology to model rich and
dynamic information environments. In addition, a functional implementation of
BIMS architecture has been developed as a web-based application. The result is
a highly flexible web application which allows modeling and managing large
amounts of heterogeneous biomedical data sets, both textual as well as visual
(medical images) information.
