Figure 1
From: An ICT infrastructure to integrate clinical and molecular data in oncology research
FSM ICT architecture. The ICT architecture designed to integrate information from the FSM PU, the HIS, the biobank database and the i2b2 system. Synchronization between de PU and the BB databases occurs periodically every fifteen minutes from 8am to 10pm. As backup procedure, a differential dump is made every day at midnight and files were stored on separated servers. The anonymization task is performed during this synchronization process. In the synchronization phase clinical information is retrieved from the FSM HIS for every patient that had at least one contact with the PU unit. A further ETL process merges all the information once a week and populates the Onco-i2b2 data warehouse.