AI and machine learning can optimize intensive care medicine, e.g., by predicting disease progression. In this interview, Konstantin Sharafutdinov explains how virtual patients can help with this....
On January 1st of this year, the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) moved into the consolidation and extension phase. The goals are clearly defined - the IT infrastructures established since 2018 are to be further expanded. This includes even stronger collaboration between the university hospitals as...
Work on the INTERPOLAR project got underway with a kick-off meeting on February 10. In a first online meeting, all sites involved in INTERPOLAR came together to create a common basis for the start of the project. The project leader Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler, Director...
INTERPOLAR was launched in January 2023. In this interview, Prof. Thürmann and Dr. Mussawy explain how the project aims to improve drug safety through data analysis....
Dr. Irina Lutz heads up the Data Integration Center in Aachen. In this interview, she talks about her responsibilities, processes, challenges, and her vision for the future of Data Integration Centers....
The Data Integration Centers established in the SMITH Consortium are the new junctions of patient care and biomedical research. Data Integration Centers create the technical and organizational conditions to centrally merge medical data, harmonize formats and make them available for further use in cross-site research...
More than 100 SMITH project members met on November 23 and 24, 2022 for the SMITH Science Day and the last closed meeting of this year. The meeting was at the same time the last project meeting in the current development and networking phase of...
Christoph Beger, a young researcher at the University of Leipzig, explains in an interview how algorithmic phenotyping improves research with medical data and optimizes patient care in the long term....
Distributed data analysis is of great importance when analyzing large amounts of personal data. The "Platform for Analysis and Distributed Machine Learning for Enterprises" (PADME) established within the SMITH Consortium will facilitate distributed analyses with medical data in the future....
The BMBF-funded Digital Hubs were launched almost a year ago. In this interview, Prof. Marx and Dr. Molinnus provide an overview of the SMITH Consortium's DISTANCE Hub....