A Software Architecture for Sharing and Reusing Health Data in Smart Hospitals

Background and aims: With the emergence of a large amount of medical data in new informationsystems and due to the use of new technologies, a need arises that how to make this dataavailable to research centers and those who can use this information in order to create value forpatients and Medical and service community to use.Method: In this research, we first survey various smart hospital architectures and available platforms.Our objective is to identify the most appropriate architecture for sharing hospital data withthird parties. To gather requirements, we conduct a case study based on a smart hospital projectand evaluate the proposed architecture’s effectiveness.Results: From the very beginning of the formation of hospital information systems, the primaryvalue and importance of these systems was the creation and design of the system for administrativetasks such as managing patients’ bills and payments. Therefore, no targeting in the fieldof hospital data sharing to improve the conditions of hospitals, providing more and additionalservices to doctors, nurses, and patients, as well as research applications based on these data wasnot considered. On the other hand, the value of the high volume of health data in this field is stillnot known, to the community and this lack of awareness prevents the provision of useful servicesthat can improve the lives of a large number of patients and medical and research procedures.Collecting this high volume of medical and health data and making them available to differentorganizations with the aim of reusing them in medical research, pharmaceuticals, and awareness-raising leads to creating value and making money in this field. The architecture we want topresent complements health information systems to enable these systems for new applicationsbased on data collection, management, distribution, security, and governance. Providing a newarchitecture that can respond to the needs of hospital data sharing, so that it can integrate differentsources of data and information within the hospital with each other and using a standard methodand maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s rights and the type of access and security at thedisposal of consumers for applications. Various research, medical, treatment, drug prescription,information spreading, etc.Conclusion: We have developed a comprehensive service-oriented architecture for this domain,encompassing a range of critical features including data acquisition, information management,data distribution, data governance, data security, data analysis, and service management extractedfrom a reference data-sharing model. This architecture has been tailored to meet the specific needsand requirements of Iran, and it is viable for implementation in local hospitals.

کلیدواژه ها:

Smart hospital ، Hospital information system ، big data ، Internet of Things ، Medical data sharing