title: Integrating medical and research information: a big data approach.
abstract: Most of the information collected in different fields by Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC) is classified as unstructured due to its high volume and heterogeneity. This situation, linked to the recent requirement of integrating it to the medical information, makes it necessary to implant specific architectures to collect and organize it before it can be analysed. The purpose of this article is to present the Hadoop framework as a solution to the problem of integrating research information in the Business Intelligence field. This framework can collect, explore, process and structure the aforementioned information, which allow us to develop an equivalent function to a data mart in an Intelligence Business system.
authors.affiliation: Avances en Telemedicina e Informática Sanitaria (ATIS). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Carlos M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Tilve Álvarez
authors.affiliation: Avances en Telemedicina e Informática Sanitaria (ATIS). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ayora Pais
authors.affiliation: PRB2-ProteoRed/ISCIII, CIBER-BBN. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ruíz Romero
authors.affiliation: Avances en Telemedicina e Informática Sanitaria (ATIS). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Llamas Gómez
authors.affiliation: Avances en Telemedicina e Informática Sanitaria (ATIS). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Lino
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carrajo García
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Reumatología. PRB2-ProteoRed/ISCIII. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Blanco García
authors.affiliation: Avances en Telemedicina e Informática Sanitaria (ATIS). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña, España.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vázquez González
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D013030:Spain; D018511:Systems Integration