A healthcare-driven framework for facilitating the secure sharing of data across organisational boundaries.
We report upon the development of sif (for service-oriented interoperability framework), a platform that has been developed to support the secure aggregation of medical data from disparate sources. By taking a data-agnostic approach to data access and transfer, sif provides a generic interface to data sources, which allows the current version to expose data from any relational database and any file system in a secure fashion. Application developers may then access and utilise such data via a simple API. sif is being developed within the GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics) project; as such, we discuss its various applications within that context.
OUCL, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. Andrew.Simpson@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Andrew
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Simpson
David
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Power
Douglas
D
Russell
Mark
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Slaymaker
Ghita
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Kouadri Mostefaoui
Xiaoqi
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Ma
Graeme
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Wilson
D022126:Access to Information; D016494:Computer Security; D006801:Humans; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016134:Organizational Policy; D006113:United Kingdom