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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....

08.01.2025

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: The Data Integration Center Leipzig – Comprehensive Support for Medical Researchers

In the new SMITH News series “A Look into the Data Integration Centers”, each month a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented. In the third part of this series, the team of the Data...

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....

Team of the Data Integration Center of the Ruhr University Bochum

13.11.2024

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: The Data Integration Center of Ruhr University Bochum – Teamwork for Secure and Innovative Data Use

A look into the Data Integration Centers: The Data Integration Center of the Ruhr University Bochum (MeDIZ.RUB) was a networking partner in the SMITH Consortium from 2018 to 2022, with the setup phase starting in 2023. Find out how far the preparations for commissioning have...

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...

15.10.2024

A Look into the Data Integration Centers: The Jena Data Integration Center as a Central Interface for Patient Care, Biomedical Research and IT

In the new SMITH News series "A Look into the Data Integration Centers", each month a Data Integration Center established within the SMITH Consortium of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) will be presented. The Data Integration Centers, which were initially established at university medical centers,...

04.10.2024

GeMTeX creates first standard for de-identification of German medical documents

The GeMTeX team has reached a significant milestone: Researchers from the University Hospitals of Leipzig and Erlangen have, for the first time, published annotations for a text corpus that serve as a template for the de-identification of German-language medical texts. This lays the groundwork for...

Gruppenfoto der Mitglieder der SMITH-Klausurtagung

30.09.2024

Enhanced Networking for Better Medical Research | 3rd SMITH Closed Meeting September 19-20 in Leipzig

Looking beyond the borders of the SMITH Consortium: Last week, consortium members met for a closed meeting at the Albertina Library of the Leipzig University to discuss the latest developments in the SMITH Consortium and the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII). The focus was on cross-MII...

27.09.2024

INTERPOLAR studies to improve medication safety enter practical phase | 6th INTERPOLAR Day in Leipzig

This autumn, the first IT solutions to improve medication safety will be introduced in the participating university hospitals as part of the INTERPOLAR studies. To discuss the final steps towards the start of the studies, the project team met on 18 and 19 September for...

06.08.2024

SaveTheDate: MII-Symposium 2024

This year's symposium of the Medical Informatics Initiative will take place in Berlin on December 10, 2024. The motto is Use data, strengthen research, improve care - our path to the European Health Data Space. Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration is...