The DISTANCE Digital Hub is nearing the end of its first funding phase. More than 30 project staff members met in Düsseldorf to mark the conclusion of the project....
The Data Integration Center at the Essen University Hospital has been part of the SMITH Consortium since 2018 and is now a permanent component of the hospital’s care-oriented IT infrastructure. ...
The PICOS Study of the DISTANCE project supports former intensive care patients via an app. The aim is to better understand PICS and develop therapies. The evaluation will begin in the fall....
Many former intensive care patients suffer from PICS for a long time. The new PICOS app supports them in their everyday lives and provides data for research. Two experts report on the study....
In the new SMITH news series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented on a monthly basis. In this part of our series, the team at the...
About 25 people working on the GeMTeX project met last week at the Albertina Library of Leipzig University to discuss the current status of the annotation work and the future use of the GeMTeX text corpus. Find out exactly what was discussed in the follow-up...
The GeMTeX project is currently creating a large German-language corpus of clinical texts for AI and research. Two medical students talk about their work on annotating clinical texts in an interview....
In the new SMITH news series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented on a monthly basis. In this issue, the Data Integration Center Halle presents its...
As of March 2025, a total of 66,228 patients at university hospitals in the SMITH Consortium have given consent for their health data to be used for research since 2018. This means that the number of consents has increased sixfold since July 2022. This success...
To ensure that the technical solutions and infrastructures developed in the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) benefit patients in the best possible way, their active involvement in MII projects is essential. The Digital Hub DISTANCE is setting a good example by involving the German Sepsis Help...