The FHIR Blaze Server provides researchers with access to medical data across locations. In this interview, developer Alexander Kiel explains what sets Blaze apart and makes it so important for the Medical Informatics Initiative....
A look into the Data Integration Centers: The Data Integration Center of the Ruhr University Bochum (MeDIZ.RUB) was a networking partner in the SMITH Consortium from 2018 to 2022, with the setup phase starting in 2023. Find out how far the preparations for commissioning have...
INTERPOLAR goes into practice: An IT documentation for ward pharmacists is being tested at eight university hospitals. Find out more in the interview with Prof. Dr. André Scherag and Dr. Daniel Neumann....
In the new SMITH News series "A Look into the Data Integration Centers", each month a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented. The Data Integration Centers, which were initially established at university medical centers,...
Looking beyond the borders of the SMITH Consortium: Last week, consortium members met for a closed meeting at the Albertina Library of the Leipzig University to discuss the latest developments in the SMITH Consortium and the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII). The focus was on cross-MII...
This autumn, the first IT solutions to improve medication safety will be introduced in the participating university hospitals as part of the INTERPOLAR studies. To discuss the final steps towards the start of the studies, the project team met on 18 and 19 September for...
The GeMTeX project team started its work almost one year ago. Last week, more than 40 members met at the Albertina Library of the Leipzig University to discuss the milestones achieved so far and to plan the upcoming annotation work, which is scheduled to start...
About 45 members of the SMITH Consortium met on March 5 and 6, 2024, at the Albertina Library of the Leipzig University for the first SMITH Closed Meeting of the year. In addition to current progress on the establishment of the Data Integration Centers, the...
Opportunities, challenges, solutions and the future of the Digital Hubs of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII): This was the topic of yesterday's Digital Hubs networking meeting at the Albertina Library in Leipzig....
The "BENEFIT" Junior Research Group at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf is creating the framework conditions for making healthcare data usable. Find out more in the interview with group leader Dr Philipp Breitfeld!...