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AICCELERATE

The AICCELERATE project intends to build a complete system for scaling up AI-enabled digital solutions for different hospital use cases. The project has ~11 million € budget for 17 partners across Europe. Health data interoperability is a major challenge for the generalizability and reusability of artificial intelligence models in different healthcare settings. I authored a blog…

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FAIR4Health

Improving Health Research in EU through FAIR Data The FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guiding principles were conceptualized to pave the way to machine accessible and actionable data interoperability. There was a growing interest to and application of the FAIR principles in different domains. Health data reseachers have been the leading community to benefit from…

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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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Data Privacy Tool

This is a standalone desktop application which works on HL7 FHIR resources so that the users can apply de-identification and pseudonymization configurations directly on the FHIR resources as well as other security and privacy measures. Previously, I presented a rough architecture of the Data Privacy Tool in this scientific journal paper. The tool communicates with…

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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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Medolution

Medical Care Evolution was an ITEA project aiming to build a system of systems to collect, align and analyse heterogeneous health data so that medical professionals can make more informed decisions. The objective was to provide relevant information to support patients and healthcare professionals in their decision making on diagnosis, treatment and further monitoring; from…

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TestBATN

TestBATN was the first research project of SRDC supported by TUBITAK. TestBATN is a framework of online automated conformance and interoperability testing services to test software products for compliance to any interoperability standard. TestBATN includes a test description language to develop test scenarios for the system under test. Test scenarios can be automatically executed by…

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