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SALUS

SALUS is the acronym for the successfull FP7 project: Scalable, Standard based Interoperability Framework for Sustainable Proactive Post Market Safety Studies. As illustrated in the figure below, SALUS worked on the following: Functional interoperability to enable the exchange of electronic health records. For this, a new IHE profile was developed by the SALUS project and…

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onFHIR

onFHIR is an implementation of HL7 FHIR standard which can be used as a central data service for FHIR compliant healthcare applications. onFHIR is open-source, the source code is available on GitHub, and it is being actively maintained and improved. onFHIR repository is being actively used and improved by many research projects in health informatics….

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Semantic MDR

Semantic MDR EE is a web-based metadata management and data modelling tool to create and maintain common data models collaboratively either based on imported standard content models or from scratch. Through its spreadsheet based user-friendly interfaces, it hides the implementation specific details and allows the modelers to focus on the data models to be managed. Semantic MDR is a…

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Apache Stanbol

Apache Stanbol is now a retired Apache project which provided a set of components for semantic content management. I was a member of the project management board (PMC) and a committer for this Apache project. While this blog post describes the general concepts of Apache Stanbol, this paper gives detailed information about the semantic indexing…

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Data Curation Tool

This is a standalone desktop application which helps its users transform existing health datasets into HL7 FHIR. The tool acts as an ETL tool, but specialized to transform data into the widely-used and well-established health data standard, called HL7 FHIR. It can read data from Excel/CSV files and/or PostgreSQL databases. Previously, I presented a rough…

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