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24.10.2025

4th Large Language Model Workshop on November 10, 2025, in Munich – Register Now!

The GeMTeX project team invites you to a workshop on Large Language Models (LLMs), taking place on November 10, 2025, in the Main Lecture Hall of the Klinikum rechts der Isar / Technical University of Munich. Take this opportunity to engage with experts from clinical practice,...

22.10.2025

Master’s thesis topics at the intersection of pharmacy, computer science, and data science available

Are you studying medical informatics, computer science, data science, pharmacy, or a related field and looking for a clinically relevant topic for your master’s thesis? The INTERPOLAR project of the Medical Informatics Initiative is now offering five master’s theses that link research and clinical application. The...

06.10.2025

INTERPOLAR Studies on Medication Safety Enter Second Phase

From September 23 to 24, around 44 experts from clinical practice, pharmacy, and IT met in Leipzig for the 11th INTERPOLAR Day to discuss the current status and next steps of the INTERPOLAR project. ...

02.09.2025

Results from DISTANCE: Successful Networking of Patient Data from Regional Healthcare for Research

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....

11.08.2025

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: Automated Tumor Documentation and Smarter Data Queries at the Data Integration Center Essen

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. ...

31.07.2025

Recovering After Intensive Care with Digital Support

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....

22.07.2025

Digital Follow-Up Care After the ICU: “We Learned a Lot From Patient Feedback for Our Work”

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....

03.06.2025

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: Secure Research with the Data Integration Center Hamburg

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...

19.05.2025

Unlocking the Value of Clinical Texts for Research and AI | 9th GeMTeX Plenary Meeting May 13th, 2025 in Leipzig

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...

07.05.2025

How Medical Texts Are Made Usable for AI Models

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....