Open Source Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing

Malcolm Newbrie | IHE UK | October 20, 2010

Well if you believe that IHE's cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) open standard is the bees knees, just imagine an open source XDS solution!

XDS provides a standard method for submitting and querying any kind of document, even DICOM images (XSD-I). The interface is defines in term of web service definitions, which defines a standardised ebXML interface between service user applications and a repository and registry. The repository, registry and applications can be from any vendor to facilitate a plug and play ecosystem...