The Architecture of Hospital Information System for Cancer Collaboration Projects

Because of the complexity of the hospital environment, there exist a lot of medical information systems for cancer collaboration projects from different vendors with incompatible structures. In order to establish an enterprise hospital information system for cancer collaboration projects, the integration among these heterogeneous systems must be considered. Complete integration should cover three aspects: data integration, function integration and workflow integration. However most of the previous design of architecture did not accomplish such a complete integration. This article offers an architecture design of the hospital information system for cancer collaboration projects based on the concept of digital neural network system in hospital. It covers all three aspects of integration, and eventually achieves the target of one virtual data center with enterprise viewer for users of different roles. We present hospital information system for cancer collaboration Projects (HISCCP), a modular data and process management system designed to provide the infrastructure and environment for a collaborative cancer research project. This system can be further extended to other collaboration projects to achieve a complete solution to research and clinical problems.