Table 2 Standards and concepts used in the development of the UMG-MeDIC framework

ACID

Atomic Consistent Isolated Durable

A set of standard properties that ensure reliable processing of database transactions

CSV

Comma Separated Values

Structure of a text file for storage or exchange of simply patterned data

Data lake

System or repository of structured or unstructured data, including raw copies of source system data and transformed data

DWH

Data warehouse

A central database optimized for analysis purposes that combines data from several, usually heterogeneous sources

DRG

Diagnoses Related Groups

Diagnosis-related grouping of patient cases with similar costs, used for medical billing

ETL

Extract Transform Load

An integrative process in which data is extracted from multiple sources, which may have different structures, processed, and merged into a target database

FAIR

Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable

The principles were defined in 2016 by a consortium of scientists and organizations and emphasize machine-actionability with regard to the increase in volume, complexity, and creation speed of data

FHIR

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources is a standard developed by HL7 that supports data exchange between healthcare software systems

HL7

Health Level 7

Health Level 7 is a non-profit, ANSI-accredited organization developing standards for the exchange of information between healthcare services

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Regulates the communication between browser and web server

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

Application development software that combines common developer tools in a central graphical interface

IRIs

Internationalized Resource Identifiers

internationalized form of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), an identifier consisting of a string of characters used to identify an abstract or physical resource

open EHR

open Electronic Health Record

An open standard health informatics specification for managing, storing, retrieving, and exchanging health data in electronic health records

LOINC

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

international standard of universally accepted names and identifiers of health measurements, observations and documents

REST API

Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface

REST APIs communicate via HTTP requests to perform standard database functions such as creating, reading, updating, and deleting records within a resource

SQL

Structured Query Language

SQL is a database language for defining data structures and for editing and querying datasets in relational databases

TLS

Transport Layer Security

Encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Identifies and locates a resource via the access method to be used and the location of the resource, e.g. web page via HTTP