 Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. SAOR: Semantically Annotated Oncology and Radiology Progress to Date, Commercialization Approach Tomas Vitvar, Liam Moran Enterprise Ireland 4 th July, Dublin, Ireland

2 SAOR Overview and Progress to Date Commercialization Approach Overview

3 SAOR Overview Objectives –Build integration platform for EPR based on cutting edge semantic technologies –Enable seamless integration of patient information across heterogeneous environment in intra- and inter- hospital integration in a cost effective manner. Start: November, 2005 Finish: October, 2008 Currently: 8 months Budget: 340K Partners: DERI NUIG and UCHG

4 Architecture Clinical Information System 1 Adapter Lifting/lowering SOA Semantic Integration Platform On WSMX Front-end application Desktop Computers Laptops PDAs EPR, … Clinical Information System 2 Clinical Information System n HL7, … Adapter Lifting/Lowering HL7, … Adapter Lifting/Lowering HL7, …

5 SAOR Overview Team –Principle Investigator and project manager (Dr. Tomas Vitvar) –Business Development (Liam Moran) –Senior Researcher (Prof. Wil van der Putten) – contact person in UCHG –Researcher (Ratnesh Sahay) –Researcher (Antonio Aguilar) –Researcher (Wasseem Akhtar)

6 SAOR Overview Role of partners –DERI NUIG Conduct research and develop prototype showcasing benefits of semantic technologies applied in healthcare Uptake research results of DERI from SFI and EU funded projects (Semantically enabled Service Oriented Architecture) Define commercialization approach with aim for technology transfer –UCHG Provide requirements for interoperability in healthcare Provide testing environment (software, data) and help to define use cases for the project

7 SAOR Overview – Plan 2006: –WP1: Current State Analysis (due Q2 – April 06) –WP2: Technical Evaluation of EPR (due Q3 – July 06) –WP8: Dissemination Conference and journal papers – Q3 –WP9: Business Development 2007, 2008: –WP3: Development of a detailed process model (Q2 Y2) –WP4: Development of technology specification (architecture) (Y2, Q2 Y3) –WP5: Development of EPR System (Y2, Q2 Y3) –WP6: Deployment of EPR (Y3 Q4) –WP8: Dissemination – Y2 Q4, Y3 Q3 –WP9: Business Development

8 SAOR Overview – Progress to Date Done –State-of-the art in electronic healthcare and review of current approaches to interoperability in eHealth systems WP1: Current State Analysis (due Q2 – April 06) WP2: Technical Evaluation of EPR (due Q3 – July 06) –Analysis of systems to be integrated in the hospital Databases with dummy data provided by hospital Input for case scenarios and testbed –Business Development WP8 To be done –State-of-the art in SOA and semantics in SOA WP1, WP2 Q3 – July/August 2006 –Dissemination Journal paper on SoA in eHealth and SOA (2 papers)

9 SoA eHealth – content Survey on existing EHR standards –HL7, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), … Semantic Interoperability in existing solutions in EHR standards –Evolution of interoperability Overview of international initiatives in eHealth interoperability –USA, Canada –EU Member States Overview of initiatives in eHealth interoperability in Ireland Industry and Standardization Initiatives for EPR –HL7, IEEE, IHE, … Ontologies in eHealth and Life Sciences Open Source Components –Care2x

10 SAOR Overview and Progress to Date Commercialization Approach Overview