Integration architecture: the ISAR project

ISAR (Integration System Architecture) will integrate six AIM Projects on the HIS platform at the University Hospital (CHRU) of LILLE. These Projects were elicited from six European consortiums that provided prototypes or pre-competitive products. These consortia are: ESTEEM (storage and analysis of electromyograms), EURIPACS (picture archiving and communication system), MENELAS (analysis of the natural language for medical applications), OEDIPE (storage and serial analysis of electrocardiograms), OPADE (help with drug prescription), and TANIT (mobile system for anaesthesia). When introducing an information system to a medical department and running it, two issues arise. First, how can the Information system be anchored to the Clinical processes in order to support them in an effective and efficient way, and, second, how can the Information system adapt to the changes in the Clinical processes?