Hochschule Reutlingen

Reading Center

Aim of this project is the development of a Reading Center platform for examination of medical data by experts in the context of health studies. It is currently applied in the nationwide study "Nationale Kohorte" with 250000 participants as well as two smaller scale studies of the University Eye Hospital Tübingen. General design realizes the DevOps paradigm essential for medical information systems.

The reading center provides an integrated solution for

  • Multicentric, webbased data integration via customizable interfaces
  • External data processing and reintegration such as image feature extraction
  • Multiple investigators and voting in case of mismatches
  • Adaptive catalogs and forms for different trials and studies
  • Distributed thin- and fat-client GUIs for distributed examiners

The software platform is based on a configureable multi-tier framework consisting of

  • a flexible persistance layer generated by an XML representation of the data model 
  • multiple persistance mechanisms such as SQL and NO-SQL databases
  • an application layer offering plug-ins for external data processing
  • a web interface offering generic data binding to the persistance layer
  • a generic data mapping model into the persistance layer
  • arbitrary configuration of interface formats such as CDA, HL7, FHIR
  • a mapping and serialization framework for GUI and server development
  • X509 based data security for PKI

The project is part of the CAMed research focus on understanding the fundamental principles and paradigms of distributed data integration in medical applications. The applied framework supports modelling, development and operations of medical information systems in general.

Laufzeit

Januar 2014 - Dezember 2019

Projektpartner

Center for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen

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