Interoperability stands in the ability of different information systems to exchange data. Today interoperability is highly requested in several departments of healthcare organizations. Dialysis facilities register a high delay in the possibility of data exchange, because the strong lack of standards results in a huge gap in having interoperable systems. This work represents a first effort to overcome the problems of interoperability of data related to dialysis units. A Federated DataBase System (FDBS) approach has been adopted to construct a common data repository. The storage system has been built by the Dialysis Data Infrastructure (DDI), a unique multilevel standardized data structure supported by the Dialysis MATlib (DM), an embedded Matlab® library, that’s able to convert, harmonize and query the raw data coming from the dialysis treatment units into a common interoperable format. The DDI and DM have been developed in the context of the Italy- Switzerland cooperation project INTERREG DialysIS, and currently contains 1018 dialysis sessions recorded referred to 145 patients.

An interoperable common storage system for shared dialysis clinical data

VITO, DOMENICO;BIANCHI, CAMILLA;CASAGRANDE, GIUSTINA;COSTANTINO, MARIA LAURA
2016-01-01

Abstract

Interoperability stands in the ability of different information systems to exchange data. Today interoperability is highly requested in several departments of healthcare organizations. Dialysis facilities register a high delay in the possibility of data exchange, because the strong lack of standards results in a huge gap in having interoperable systems. This work represents a first effort to overcome the problems of interoperability of data related to dialysis units. A Federated DataBase System (FDBS) approach has been adopted to construct a common data repository. The storage system has been built by the Dialysis Data Infrastructure (DDI), a unique multilevel standardized data structure supported by the Dialysis MATlib (DM), an embedded Matlab® library, that’s able to convert, harmonize and query the raw data coming from the dialysis treatment units into a common interoperable format. The DDI and DM have been developed in the context of the Italy- Switzerland cooperation project INTERREG DialysIS, and currently contains 1018 dialysis sessions recorded referred to 145 patients.
2016
2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)
978-1-5090-0935-0
Dialysis, interoperability, federated database, data mining
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