NDLI: FAIRness through automation: development of an automated medical data integration infrastructure for FAIR health data in a maximum care university hospital

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Parciak, Marcel Suhr, Markus Schmidt, Christian Bönisch, Caroline Löhnhardt, Benjamin Kesztyüs, Dorothea Kesztyüs, Tibor
Abstract	Background Secondary use of routine medical data is key to large-scale clinical and health services research. In a maximum care hospital, the volume of data generated exceeds the limits of big data on a daily basis. This so-called “real world data” are essential to complement knowledge and results from clinical trials. Furthermore, big data may help in establishing precision medicine. However, manual data extraction and annotation workflows to transfer routine data into research data would be complex and inefficient. Generally, best practices for managing research data focus on data output rather than the entire data journey from primary sources to analysis. To eventually make routinely collected data usable and available for research, many hurdles have to be overcome. In this work, we present the implementation of an automated framework for timely processing of clinical care data including free texts and genetic data (non-structured data) and centralized storage as Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) research data in a maximum care university hospital. Methods We identify data processing workflows necessary to operate a medical research data service unit in a maximum care hospital. We decompose structurally equal tasks into elementary sub-processes and propose a framework for general data processing. We base our processes on open-source software-components and, where necessary, custom-built generic tools. Results We demonstrate the application of our proposed framework in practice by describing its use in our Medical Data Integration Center (MeDIC). Our microservices-based and fully open-source data processing automation framework incorporates a complete recording of data management and manipulation activities. The prototype implementation also includes a metadata schema for data provenance and a process validation concept. All requirements of a MeDIC are orchestrated within the proposed framework: Data input from many heterogeneous sources, pseudonymization and harmonization, integration in a data warehouse and finally possibilities for extraction or aggregation of data for research purposes according to data protection requirements. Conclusion Though the framework is not a panacea for bringing routine-based research data into compliance with FAIR principles, it provides a much-needed possibility to process data in a fully automated, traceable, and reproducible manner.
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Page Count	14
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ISSN	14726947
DOI	10.1186/s12911-023-02195-3
Journal	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	23
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2023-05-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Health Informatics Information Systems and Communication Service Management of Computing and Information Systems Medical data reuse Electronic health record Medical data integration center Automated medical data processing Medical informatics Maximum care hospital
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Informatics Computer Science Applications Health Policy
Journal Impact Factor	3.3/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.9/2023

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