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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....

05.04.2023

About Virtual Patients and Artificial Intelligence in the Intensive Care Unit | 5 Questions for… Konstantin Sharafutdinov

The current rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning hold great potential for optimising intensive care medicine. For example, these technologies can be used to predict the course of disease and thus prevent exacerbations. In the interview with former SMITH doctoral student Konstantin...

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....

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...