title: GIMI: the past, the present and the future.
abstract: In keeping with the theme of this year's e-Science All Hands Meeting--past, present and future--we consider the motivation for, the current status of, and the future directions for, the technologies developed within the GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics) project. This analysis provides insights into how some key problems in data federation may be addressed. GIMI was funded by the UK's Technology Strategy Board with the intention of developing a service-oriented framework to facilitate the secure sharing and aggregation of heterogeneous data from disparate sources to support a range of healthcare applications. The project, which was led by the University of Oxford, involved collaboration from the National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative, Loughborough University, University College London, t+ Medical, Siemens Molecular Imaging and IBM UK.
authors.affiliation: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. andrew.simpson@comlab.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slaymaker
authors.forename: Vernon
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tromans
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brady
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tarassenko
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D004581:Electronics; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D009042:Motivation; D009369:Neoplasms; D006113:United Kingdom