A trusted health data integration service delivering better health and research outcomes through novel data linkage mechanisms
HDI is a data integration tool which provides sophisticated infrastructure for publishing, locating retrieving and analysing data in large-scale, diverse and distributed information systems. HDI's key features are:
| One tool, many data sources | HDI allows clean, linked data to be extracted, analysed and delivered from geographically, organisationally and technologically disparate databases, delivering all the functionality in a single, easy to use tool. |
| Data privacy, integrity & security | HDI's overarching privacy policy provides declarative custodian-controlled policy statements which are enacted throughout the distributed network, allowing data custodians to vet and disseminate their data. Custodians have real-time control over access to and use of their data and any generated data products. |
| Virtual data repository | HDI uses a virtual repository of data, rather than the warehousing of data. This ensures that control of data stays with the data custodian. |
| Service-oriented | HDI is based on a service-oriented approach and builds on leading-edge Web services technology. |
| Industry-standards based | HDI uses industry standards-based protocols, algorithms and software. |
| Platform independence | HDI is implemented in Java for platform independence. |
