Meta-data management and quality control for the medical informatics platform.

The Medical Informatics Platform (MIP) of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is tasked with providing its users diverse high quality clinical data and tools for medical analysis, while complying with the national legislation about privacy and security. Data, which is provided by a large number of hospitals, tends to be heterogeneous and also has a constantly changing schema, due to hospitals' need to capture more information. In this paper we provide a look in the MIP's data ingestion pipeline and focus on steps taken by our team to properly integrate clinical data from heterogeneous sources while ensuring its quality throughout the processing pipeline. We have developed tools both for meta-data management and quality control.