On February 22nd and 23th, the first closed meeting of this year took place as an online conference. The central topic was the preparation of the application for the consolidation and further development phase of the Medical Informatics Initiative from 2023. 117 participants discussed the...
With the motto „New Horizons in Digital Health“ the first congress of the SMITH Consortium met in Berlin September 2019. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic has greatly advanced and accelerated digitalization in healthcare. In this context, the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) has taken on...
What do patients, doctors and researchers expect from the digitalisation of medicine and data-based medical research? In the interview film of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, they themselves have their say: Patients talk about their...
The final SMITH Consortium quarterly closed meeting of the year was held as a web conference on November 24th-25th. 117 participants came together online for two days to discuss the current project status and plan further steps. Key topics included the go-live of the...
Networking and harmonisation of infrastructures in collaborative medical research is taking place in a very practical way. The Consortium Leaders Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler (SMITH) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Prokosch (MIRACUM), as well as representatives of the Trust Center of the Greifswald University Medical School...
Medical data are generated with different objectives in studies, registries, research projects and in health care. Their utilization and exchange to answer different questions will change health care and medical research. Despite the wide range of analysis methods, there are some aspects that still stand...
At the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, a new Junior Research Group on the secondary use of health data was created at the beginning of September. Under the leadership of Dr. Sylvia Nürnberg, three young scientists will focus on improving research opportunities and patient care through...
On September 14, 2021, the part-time master's program in Medical Data Science (M.Sc.) started for the second time at RWTH Aachen University under the scientific direction of Prof.Dr. Rainer Röhrig, Director of the Institute for Medical Informatics. While students from the first cohort are...
At Leipzig University, a new Junior Research Group started its work at the beginning of August. Four scientists are working on the development and application of knowledge-based software for determining and analyzing phenotypes. Phenotyping, i.e. the bundling of human characteristics, plays an important role in...
On August 25/26, 2021, this year's third SMITH Consortium quarterly closed meeting took place with over 100 participants. One of the main topics was the transparent participation of patients in the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), to...