HDI: integrating health data and tools
Health systems globally are looking to make better use of the data they capture in order to improve their services, both for service provision and clinical outcome. One way of doing this is to integrate existing data sources. However, major technical and legal questions exist concerning data integration, data quality, data security and privacy in health data usage. In this paper, we present the HDITM tool, that is currently under development at the e-Health Research Centre. Firstly we describe the HDITM architecture and its data integration capabilities. We then consider two of its core capabilities (1) privacy-preserving similarity linkage and (2) on-line analytical techniques and report generating. Finally, we discuss how HDI functionality can be used to provide the capabilities of a knowledge based medical system. The e-Health Research Centre is currently working with the Queensland Health department to deploy the software in practice.
knowledge based medical system information retrieval