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22.07.2025

Digital Follow-Up Care After the ICU: “We Learned a Lot From Patient Feedback for Our Work” | 5 Questions for … Petra Hetfeld & Dr. Caren Martin on Patient Recruitment in the DISTANCE Project

Many former intensive care patients continue to experience physical and mental health issues, such as difficulty concentrating or muscle weakness, long after their hospital stay. These symptoms are collectively referred to as "Post-Intensive Care Syndrome" (PICS) and are often associated with a reduced quality of...

07.05.2025

How Medical Texts Are Made Usable for AI Models | 5 Questions for… Marie-Sophie Polifka and Sarina Shams, Annotators in the GeMTeX Project

The GeMTeX project aims to create one of the largest corpora of German medical texts available. To this end, unstructured texts from clinical documentation will be made accessible for research and AI applications in compliance with data protection regulations by annotation. In this interview, medical...

05.02.2025

How smartphones and wearables can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease | 5 Questions for… Dr. Lara Marie Reimer, Head of the NDEMobil Junior Research Group

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) currently represent a major medical challenge. Early diagnosis is crucial to slow the progression of the disease. The NDEMobil Junior Research Group at the University Hospital Bonn is researching technical solutions that enable early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of NDDs....

25.11.2024

Blaze: A Link Between Research and Patient Care | 5 Questions for… Alexander Kiel on the FHIR Blaze Server

The FHIR Blaze server is designed to enable researchers to access medical data from multiple locations. Read an interview with Alexander Kiel, lead developer of Blaze, about what makes the server special and important to the work of the Medical Informatics Initiative....

24.10.2024

Digital support for ward pharmacists | 5 Questions for… Prof. Dr. André Scherag and Dr. Daniel Neumann on the start of the INTERPOLAR studies

After almost two years of preparation, the INTERPOLAR project is now entering its practical phase: in a multi-phase study, the Medication Therapy Safety (MTS) Cockpit will be implemented on 48 wards at eight university hospitals and used as a tool for medication analysis on randomly...

04.07.2024

A Data Integration Center as a Service Facility for Research | 5 Questions for Petra Gröber, Project Manager at the University Medical Center Rostock

To make healthcare data available for research, the SMITH Consortium has established seven Data Integration Centers. Three additional university medical partners are currently establishing a Data Integration Center, including the University Medical Center Rostock (UMR). There, Petra Gröber is responsible for the development. In the...

16.01.2024

How data from clinical care can be used in practice | 5 Questions for… Dr Philipp Breitfeld, Head of the SMITH Junior Research Group BENEFIT

The "BENEFIT" Junior Research Group at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is creating the framework conditions for making healthcare data usable. Find out more in the interview with junior research group leader Dr Philipp Breitfeld!...

16.10.2023

On World Boss Day: “Persuasiveness and forethought are the keys” | 5 Questions for… Consortium Leader Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler

Today is World Boss Day! We took the opportunity to talk to the head of our consortium. ...

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30.08.2023

Synergy of Medicine and IT: Advances in Infection Medicine | 5 Questions for Roland Ihle and Anja Stempel on the conclusion of the HELP project

In our latest "5 Questions for" interview, Roland Ihle and Anja share their findings from the HELP study....

29.06.2023

“We have to find a common language”: GeMTeX_MII makes it possible| 5 Questions for… Christina Lohr and Luise Modersohn about the start of the project

How can clinical documents be used for automatic language processing? What are the challenges? How can clinicians and researchers use a corpus of medical texts? Christina Lohr and Luise Modersohn, research assistants in the GeMTeX project, answer these questions in an interview....