Towards interoperability of heterogeneous health databases: application to a tumor samples bank.
OBJECTIVE
to define principles and methods that allow heterogeneous database in the health sector to be interoperable.


METHODS
to design a component-based middleware able to provide flexible and efficient means of communication between end-users and databases, and that exploits the standard nomenclatures of the health sector.


RESULTS
according to these principles, to implement a prototype of a tumor sample bank in the University hospitals of Marseille, France.


CONCLUSIONS
to discuss the benefits that the approach brings and the progress in prototyping.
Joubert
Michel
M
LERTIM, Faculté de Médicine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. Michel.Joubert@ap-hm.fr
Dufour
Jean-Charles
JC
Falco
Laurent
L
Aymard
Sylvain
S
Fieschi
Marius
M
D003199:Computer Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005602:France; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008331:Management Information Systems; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012984:Software; D014015:Tissue Banks; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled