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26.01.2023

Reducing medication problems – INTERPOLAR project launch | 5 Questions for… Prof. Dr. Petra Thürmann & Dr. Beate Mussawy

In January 2023, the POLAR follow-up project INTERPOLAR has started. On this occasion, Prof. Dr Petra Thürmann and Dr Beate Mussawy give an insight into the use case. They are experts in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy and have been supervising POLAR since the...

20.12.2022

Why Data Integration Centers are more than just technology | 5 Questions for… Data Integration Center Director Dr. Irina Lutz

Dr Irina Lutz heads one of the seven Data Integration Centers set up in SMITH so far. The graduate engineer combines technical expertise with computer science and basic clinical knowledge. At the RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Dr Lutz is responsible for the strategic planning of...

17.11.2022

How algorithms can help improve medical research and patient care | 5 Questions for… Junior Researcher Christoph Beger

Christoph Beger is a junior researcher in the SMITH Junior Research Group "Terminology- and Ontology-based Phenotyping (TOP)" at the Leipzig University. We talked to Christoph Beger about what algorithmic phenotyping is and why it can optimise research with medical data and thus patient care....

15.11.2022

Data stays at the site: PADME platform facilitates privacy-compliant analyses of medical data

Distributed data analysis is of great importance when analyzing large amounts of personal data. The "Platform for Analysis and Distributed Machine Learning for Enterprises" (PADME) established within the SMITH Consortium will facilitate distributed analyses with medical data in the future....

28.09.2022

Targeted prevention and therapy after intensive medical treatment – 5 Questions for… Prof. Dr. Gernot Marx and Dr. Denise Molinnus

The Digital Hubs funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research were launched just under a year ago. Their goal is to transfer the IT infrastructures established in the MII beyond the university medical context into regional health care. In this issue of...

05.09.2022

SMITH Closed Meeting in Halle | August/September 2022

On August 31 and September 1, 2022, SMITH project staff met for a closed meeting for the third time this year. For two days, the more than 80 participants had the opportunity to discuss project statuses in SMITH as well as take part in workshops...

21.07.2022

11,000 patients make their healthcare data available for research in SMITH

In everyday clinical practice, large amounts of healthcare data are routinely generated. This data is of great interest for medical research. It can, for example, help researchers to better understand disease progression and thus develop more targeted treatments. ...

07.07.2022

SMITH Congress 2022 – SMITH draws positive interim result

On June 28 and 29, 2022, the time had finally come. With a delay of one year due to corona, the 2nd SMITH Congress under the motto "New Solutions in Digital Health" took place as a presence event at the dbb forum in Berlin....

25.04.2022

New Solutions in Digital Health | 5 Questions for… Prof. Dr. André Scherag

Prof. Dr André Scherag has been Director of the Institute for Medical Statistics, Computer and Data Sciences at Jena University Hospital since 2017. As the first speaker in the SMITH Consortium, he has been committed to the sustainable use of healthcare data in biomedical research...

08.03.2022

On International Women’s Day – Why diversity and equality are also important for medical informatics | 5 Questions for… Dr. Anke Diehl

On the occasion of International Women's Day, we spoke to Dr Anke Diehl, Head of the Digital Transformation Unit and Chief Transformation Officer at the Essen University Hospital (UME). She is specifically committed to digitalisation in medical care and was recently honoured with the German...

Author: Julia Jesser