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13 March 2008 ImTK: an open source multi-center information management toolkit
Adil Alaoui, Mary Lou Ingeholm, Shilpa Padh, Mihai Dorobantu, Mihir Desai, Kevin Cleary, Seong K. Mun
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The Information Management Toolkit (ImTK) Consortium is an open source initiative to develop robust, freely available tools related to the information management needs of basic, clinical, and translational research. An open source framework and agile programming methodology can enable distributed software development while an open architecture will encourage interoperability across different environments. The ISIS Center has conceptualized a prototype data sharing network that simulates a multi-center environment based on a federated data access model. This model includes the development of software tools to enable efficient exchange, sharing, management, and analysis of multimedia medical information such as clinical information, images, and bioinformatics data from multiple data sources. The envisioned ImTK data environment will include an open architecture and data model implementation that complies with existing standards such as Digital Imaging and Communications (DICOM), Health Level 7 (HL7), and the technical framework and workflow defined by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Information Technology Infrastructure initiative, mainly the Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) specifications.
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Adil Alaoui, Mary Lou Ingeholm, Shilpa Padh, Mihai Dorobantu, Mihir Desai, Kevin Cleary, and Seong K. Mun "ImTK: an open source multi-center information management toolkit", Proc. SPIE 6919, Medical Imaging 2008: PACS and Imaging Informatics, 69190T (13 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772992
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KEYWORDS
Data modeling

Data communications

Prototyping

Medicine

Data archive systems

Standards development

Clinical research

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