Vision

was started out of a belief that building clinical applications is too hard. We set out to build a scalable, open-source platform that could reduce the barriers to building clinical-grade applications. By supporting some of the more complex issues in healthcare--data integration, HIPAA compliance, and auditing, to name a few--we hoped that innovators throughout the healthcare ecosystem could more easily create solutions for pressing clinical problems.

Guiding Principles

• Open Source. Released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.
• Built By Providers. Built through a unique collaboration between Persistent Systems and Partners HealthCare, a not-for-profit healthcare system founded by Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. This means that igia was built within a provider organization, with real clinical use cases driving our product development and product roadmap.
• Standards Focused. Leverage existing standards, like SMART, FHIR, and HL7, wherever possible. We are excited about the work being done in this space, and expect to become a major implementation of these standards.
• Modern Architecture. Employ modern development paradigms, like a microservices ecosystem, app registries, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Developer Friendly. Built by and for developers. Through tutorials and code snippets, igia provides the tools to build and deploy robust, scalable, and functional clinical applications.

Key Features

• FHIR Facade. Uses HAPI-FHIR and supports FHIR STU 3. Included are configuration settings for integrating HAPI within the igia ecosystem, as well as building out FHIR services from your own internal data services.
• SMART App Launching. Leverages SMART profiles and standards to demonstrate how an app can launch against an EHR or other federated authentication system.
• Data Integration. With Apache Camel as a base, we have built a suite of tooling around data services and data integration to facilitate the exchange and use of data within .
• Workflow and Care Management. Using the workflow automation engine Camunda as a base, includes significant functionality to facilitate the creation of care workflows and pathways, by wrapping Camunda's underlying APIs in healthcare-specific functionality.
• HIPAA-aware. includes documentation articulating the key aspects of HIPAA as it pertains to software development in the healthcare environment, and how to design your system to be aware of these policies and regulations.

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