The Molecular Medicine Informatics Model (MMIM)

In 2005, a major collaboration in Melbourne Australia successfully completed implementing a major medical informatics infrastructure – this is now being used for discovery research and has won significant expansion funding for 2006 - 2009. The convergence of life sciences, healthcare, and information technology is now driving research into the fundamentals of disease causation. Key to enabling this is collating data in sufficient numbers of patients to ensure studies are adequately powered. The Molecular Medicine Informatics Model (MMIM) is a ‘virtual’ research repository of clinical, laboratory and genetic data sets. Integrated data, physically located within independent hospital and research organisations can be searched and queried seamlessly via a federated data integrator. Researchers must gain authorisation to access data, and inform/obtain permission from the data owners, before the data can be accessed. The legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of this health data ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MEDINFO
• Authors: Marienne Hibbert, Peter Gibbs, Terence O'brien, Peter Colman, Robert Merriel, Naomi Rafael, Michael P. Georgeff
• Keywords: Colorectal Cancer, Healthcare, Medicine Informatics Model, MEDINFO 2007, Molecular Medicine Informatics