A new IT system to enable more effecient sharing of information between hospitals has been developed by researchers at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway. The new technology has now been licensed to Irish company Slidepath, which specialises in software solutions for capturing clinical research data.
Healthcare professionals have long been concerned that electronic patient record systems have become islands of information, with little or no interoperability.
DERI’s solution is called Plug and Play Electronic Patient Records (PPEPR) and uses the latest application of semantics, in which over 100 researchers at DERI specialise.
Ronan Fox, leader of the Health Care and Life Sciences research group in DERI, NUI Galway, said, “[Many IT] solutions to date have been shown to be technological dead-ends, limiting the reuse of the business knowledge inherent in integration projects. With PPEPR, not alone is codeless integration possible, knowledge is encapsulated through the use of semantics, enabling its reuse in other applications.”
Irish company Slidepath has joined the project as an industry partner who will collaborate on the rollout. Other financial assistance was provided by Enterprise Ireland.
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