Again as web meeting, the SMITH quarterly closed meeting was held on the 26 - 27 May, 2021 with more than 100 participants. The head of the consortium, Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler and the SMITH office provided information on the current status of the consortium....
The Corona crisis has highlighted yet again the great potential of digital healthcare. Digital technologies, from telemedical applications to cross-practice and cross-clinic networking, are opportunities to provide patients with more comprehensive and effective care even beyond times of crisis. This year, DMEA - Europe's largest...
This year, the RWTH Aachen International Academy announces the following scholarship offers for the postgraduate, part-time and interprofessional Master's program "Medical Data Science (M.Sc.)" for the winter semester 2021/22....
On February 1, 2021, the first units of the University Hospital RWTH Aachen, which are involved in the HELP Study, have moved from the control phase to the intervention phase. The clinical Use Case HELP of the SMITH Consortium is dedicated to responsible antibiotic therapy...
On the 24 - 25 February 2021, the quarterly closed meeting of the SMITH Consortium took place. 131 project staff members and representatives of the consortium management discussed and agreed on the current project statuses in a two-day web conference. The preparations for the audit,...
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the development of new courses of study as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative to thus enabling the digital transformation of the healthcare sector to take place and to be staffed with qualified personnel. In...
The HL7 FHIR standard data format defined by the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) is ideally suited for interoperable data exchange and storage. The possibilities for statistical analysis, on the other hand, are limited....
With 22 students, the part-time master's program in Medical Data Science (M.Sc.) under the scientific direction of Prof. Dr. Rainer Röhrig, Institute Director for Medical Informatics at RWTH Aachen University, was successfully launched at the RWTH International Academy in October. ...
The HELP App developed by the SMITH Consortium provides medical personnel rapid information and recommendations for responsible antibiotic therapy in staphylococcal bloodstream infections....
The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) promotes practical as well as scientific progress in intensive and emergency medicine. With the Use Case ASIC, the SMITH Consortium makes an important contribution to this. In a Letter of Intent, DIVI now confirms...