Towards interoperability of heterogeneous health databases: application to a tumor samples bank

to define principles and methods that allow heterogeneous database in the health sector to be interoperable.

to design a component-based middleware able to provide flexible and efficient means of communication between end-users and databases, and that exploits the standard nomenclatures of the health sector.

according to these principles, to implement a prototype of a tumor sample bank in the University hospitals of Marseille, France.

to discuss the benefits that the approach brings and the progress in prototyping.