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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…
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….
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…
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…
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…