Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare (SMITH).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on the German Medical Informatics Initiative. "Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare (SMITH)" is one of four consortia funded by the German Medical Informatics Initiative (MI-I) to create an alliance of universities, university hospitals, research institutions and IT companies. SMITH's goals are to establish Data Integration Centers (DICs) at each SMITH partner hospital and to implement use cases which demonstrate the usefulness of the approach.

Objectives

To give insight into architectural design issues underlying SMITH data integration and to introduce the use cases to be implemented.

Governance and policies

SMITH implements a federated approach as well for its g

SUBMITTER: Winter A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193398 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature